The Power of Collaboration!
“It’s easier to concentrate.” “I get less distracted.” “I heard from my friends how useful last week’s Study Saturday was and wanted to come today to get some maths work done.”...
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“It’s easier to concentrate.” “I get less distracted.” “I heard from my friends how useful last week’s Study Saturday was and wanted to come today to get some maths work done.”...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
NEWS The new term sees a change in activities in the PE Faculty with the summer sports of athletics, cricket, rounders, tennis and softball taking centre stage. Clubs will...
Posted by Ashley Cartledge
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
It was a privilege once again to profile our great school at the national By Leaders for Leaders summer conference which took place in Central London earlier this week. Following...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to see our talented Year 11 Drama GCSE students perform under the lights and the additional scrutiny of a visiting GCSE examiner on Wednesday evening of this week....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Thursday 25th April 5 students from Bushey Meads attended a ‘Women in sport’ conference at Queens school. It was organised by Arsenal football club. The students...
Posted by Diane Cartledge
Bushey Meads is a Reading School! With the gorgeous weather we had over Easter weekend, I was teased with one of the best things about a summer holiday; sitting outside immersed...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
As many of you are aware throughout the year, every half term, each faculty is asked to nominate one student from each year group to receive a prestigious High Achiever Award...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was good to visit a number of Character Development Groups last Friday morning and once again see all students making the most of the dedicated 20 minutes of silent reading....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On the 25th April 2019, my Year 10 French class and I took the great opportunity presented by our teachers, to go to the BFI cinema. Upon our arrival we were given booklets to...
Posted by Nicola Paddick
“It’s easier to concentrate.”
“I get less distracted.”
“I heard from my friends how useful last week’s Study Saturday was and wanted to come today to get some maths work done.”
“It’s better to work with others around you.”
“My best mate is really good at maths and he helps me.”
“It’s a nice quiet space to work.”
These were just some of the incredibly powerful comments made by a cross section of Year 11 and 13 students who attended this week’s Study Saturday session in the LRC. A few of the 75 students arrived as early as 9.30 am and were waiting keenly for our dedicated LRC Manager Mr Back to arrive and start the session which officially runs every Saturday from 10.00 am until 2.00 pm.
These powerful images show some of the students working both collaboratively and independently – completing past papers, creating revision cards, working on Mathswatch or one of the many other online learning platforms provided for free by the school.
It’s the time of year when the key focus us on revision. Teachers of Year 11 and 13 are coming up with innovative ways to help the students revise and support them through the...
This week the year 11 Geography students visited the London Olympic Park to carry out their fieldwork for an important part of their coursework. The students studied the key...