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As we complete another week of impactful live lessons, it was great to get a few more accounts from our students about their experiences and how they are trying to make the best...
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As we complete another week of impactful live lessons, it was great to get a few more accounts from our students about their experiences and how they are trying to make the best...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
With the emphasis on live lessons being streamed to the 90% of our school population working from home, additional challenges are being embraced by the hardworking teachers at...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Posted by James Felix
Year 10 D&T students have been working on their 3D CAD skills this week. Using an online CAD drawing program called TINKERCAD, the students have developed their skills through...
Posted by David Chalkley
Next week is National Apprenticeship week and here at Bushey Meads we have seen a significant rise in the number of students who have left us and gone on to a wide range of...
Posted by Di Mcildowie
To mark this years ‘Children’s Mental Health’ Week I thought I would reflect on the impact of food on your mental health, after all image.png Even though this...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
I have started to share a ‘SEND tip of the month’ with our teachers and I thought all the parents home schooling could also use the advice so I am sharing it with you...
Posted by Roa Dillon
We are very proud of our students at Bushey Meads and we are delighted to recognise hard work in all forms. The pastoral team chose the student of week by looking at all the...
Posted by Helen Blowers
I am sure you have all been touched by the news of the passing of Captain Sir Tom Moore. A courageous, amazing and interesting man whose legacy, amongst other things, is to remind...
Posted by Helen Blowers
It was great to receive a home video from Seth Freeman completing the last STEM challenge – Non-Newtonian Fluid. Seth receives an R3 for his completion of the challenge. ...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
With the emphasis on live lessons being streamed to the 90% of our school population working from home, additional challenges are being embraced by the hardworking teachers at BMS.
Providing feedback for students is inevitably a little more challenging, but new ways are being found to do this as smartly as possible, bearing in mind that we all know that the power of great feedback can significantly increase the progress of learning.
Hard working English teacher Mr Cox showed me a piece of student work in black type that he had provided feedback for in green font. The student in Year 11 had then responded to the teacher’s feedback and written in purple font to demonstrate his progress.
On the right hand side of the screen Mr Cox also provided some specific instructions in the chat column which guided the student to further success.
It was very impressive!
At Bushey Meads we have been extremely fortunate to have appointed some superb new staff to our school who have all joined us since this September. Many of them are...
Last Friday morning History Teacher Mr Dowty shared his top tips for how to engage students in that ongoing powerful dialogue of marking and feedback. Using the various coloured...