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Congratulations to Annabel Pointer who is our Reader of the Week. Annabel has achieved her bronze reading award. To reach this level of reading she has read four books and...
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Congratulations to Annabel Pointer who is our Reader of the Week. Annabel has achieved her bronze reading award. To reach this level of reading she has read four books and...
Posted by Claire Till
A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens most famous historical novels. It deals with major themes of duality, revolution, and resurrection. Throughout the novel, Dickens...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
A Christmas Carol is the most famous and heart-warming festive story of them all. Written in 1843, Dickens wrote his novella in response to British social attitudes towards...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
This week we recognise Charlotte Boother Dominguez as our Reader of the Week. Currently reading ‘Cinder’ by Marissa Meyer means that she is exploring not only the...
Posted by Claire Till
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Jesse – Lee Bushnell year 7 is our Reader of the Week. At the moment she is reading Jacqueline Wilson’s Funny Girls. Previously to that she read Anne Frank’s...
Posted by Claire Till
Congratulations to Ellen McDermott in year 7 who is our reader of the week. She has read an amazing 21 books since we started back to school in September. In addition, Ellen wrote...
Posted by Claire Till
Congratulations to Charles Pavlou in year 8 who has completed his Silver reading award. Between May and November he had to read six books of different genres, plus a book of...
Posted by Claire Till
This year the English Faculty will be honouring Charles Dickens by promoting his novels each month in the BMS newsletter. With Year 8 currently studying his work, it seems...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
On Friday I spent Character Development Coach (CDC) time in the Maths Faculty area and was delighted to see so many students really focussed and engaged with our now embedded...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Congratulations to Annabel Pointer who is our Reader of the Week. Annabel has achieved her bronze reading award. To reach this level of reading she has read four books and completed four different activities on them. These included creating a cartoon, writing a letter to the author and designing a new front cover for one of the books read.
To reach the silver reading award students must read four books of different genres such as, horror, non-fiction and a romantic story. The LRC is accepting recommendations of what books students would like to have access to as well as taking nominations for book of the week. Over the past few weeks these have included The Rose Muddle Mysteries, and Orphans of the Tide.
On Wednesday, Bushey Meads had another one of our regular DropEverythingAndRead events. This is where at an agreed time everyone drops what they are doing and picks up their books...