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Friday mornings at Bushey Meads are always very positive; all Character Development Coaches (CDCs) provide set texts for their students and give them a BMS Bookmark. They then...
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Friday mornings at Bushey Meads are always very positive; all Character Development Coaches (CDCs) provide set texts for their students and give them a BMS Bookmark. They then...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Monday morning, just before breaktime, our school fell silent and we all participated in a Drop Everything and Read or DEAR event across all lessons and office spaces in the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Therapeutic Benefits of Reading and Writing Creative writing has reading at its core. The benefits of reading and writing (including journals and letters) have been referenced in...
Posted by Lynn Court
How Healthy is Reading? 19th century newly literate women were considered vulnerable and there was a fear that they could be manipulated by fiction! Similarly, newly literate men...
Posted by Lynn Court
Reading through History Reading has long been seen as a source of ‘solace, consolation and healing throughout history.’ Helen Mary Gaskell set up a War Library in 1914 (after...
Posted by Lynn Court
Identification and Transportation This means the extent to which the reader identifies with characters and situations and how much they become mentally and emotionally immersed in...
Posted by Lynn Court
Reading Through Time: Making Sense of Our World Anthropological evidence suggests stories were used by ancestral hominids. Rubin (1995) says stories are such a strong part of...
Posted by Lynn Court
Reading Through Time… Reading is a form of entertainment with a long history. People often turn to reading as a source of comfort e.g. when in hospital, a distraction from...
Posted by Lynn Court
It was a real delight to walk through A Block classrooms on Friday morning last week and see all students following our fantastic Friday reading expectations which are designed to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our Monday Magic Moment in Staff Briefing at the start of this week was led by our inspirational Lead Practitioner of English and Whole School Literacy for the Bushey St James...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
In support of our growth mindset culture we have introduced an app for those students normally engaging with our reading intervention program, who have dyslexia or English as a...
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now. Briseis was a queen until her city was...