Supporting the Craft of Great Essay Writing
Our week started with a superb Monday Magic Moment delivered by Head of Geography and teaching and learning lead in Humanities and Social Sciences Miss Dunsby focussing on...
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Our week started with a superb Monday Magic Moment delivered by Head of Geography and teaching and learning lead in Humanities and Social Sciences Miss Dunsby focussing on...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our Monday Magic Moment at the start of the week was delivered by Mrs Jackson, our hard working Leader in English and Media. She officially launched our first Marking and Feedback...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Reading to improve our strong culture of learning was reinforced by two of our top teachers on Monday morning in our Staff Briefing meeting. The ‘Monday Magic Moment’...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our week started with a great ‘Monday Magic Moment’ in Staff Briefing delivered by Mrs Davey, one of our talented Advanced Lead Teachers. Coinciding with our third and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Head of House and Teacher of Geography Mr Mitchell provided an inspiring Friday Faculty Foci at the end of last week. He demonstrated how to powerfully use the voice recording...
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Head of IT and Computing Mr Besisira showcased best practice at the start of this week in Staff Briefing on Monday morning to launch our second Marking and Feedback Fortnight of...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Despite being unable to be at school last Friday, Head of Geography Miss Dunsby pre-recorded a voice-over on her Friday Faculty PowerPoint to be able to speak ‘live’ to teachers...
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Despite the continued challenges we are all experiencing, it was good to start the week with our usual focus on teaching and learning. Head of Biology Mr Gall was sharing with...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Staff at Bushey Meads School are always thinking of creative and innovative ways to increase student engagement in lessons and on Monday at Staff Briefing science teacher Mr...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our week at Bushey Meads School started with Acting Lead Practitioner Mrs Hoskins and Acting Advanced Lead Teacher Miss Pattni being joined by Miss Dolan, one of our talented...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our week started with a superb Monday Magic Moment delivered by Head of Geography and teaching and learning lead in Humanities and Social Sciences Miss Dunsby focussing on supporting high quality A level essay planning with embedded peer and self assessment to drive up improvement.
Activities based around reading exemplar essays and analysing the content and structure against clear concise mark schemes were shared. In addition she showcased the use of assessment grids underpinning effective purple pen responses and the identification of clear next steps. Using her well crafted and proven strategies she shared that some students had shifted their A level grades up by at least 2 and even 3 grades per essay!
Our first ‘Monday Magic Moment’ of the new decade was led by Gary Johnson, one of the key leaders within our excellent English Faculty here at Bushey Meads. He...