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On Friday last week the first ever Extended Project Get Ahead Day took place and was a huge success. This Get Ahead Day gave the current Year 12 students the chance to concentrate...
The Year 8 cooking is now up and running! Students have the opportunity to enhance their chopping, baking, frying and presenting skills on Thursdays after school. We started by...
I decided to give my year 10 class a project to find out how much it would cost to have a baby, what they might need and what routines would be best. This was all in aid of...
ANDREI IRIMIA (Year 12 Elm) From my first GCSE Computer Science taster day in Year 9, I was immediately hooked into learning all about how computers and technology works –...
Year 10 GCSE History students have been making great progress recently in their study of the Norman Conquest. This has allowed time to explore the topic of rebellions against...
With talk being such an important focus of Bushey Meads school this year the Geography department have got together to show how they are promoting talk in their lessons. Mrs...
28/4/21 Bhuvan Banderi 12 Maple Bhuvan is one of our exemplary Year 12 students and Senior Prefect. Always setting a great example to his peers and to the lower school. Bhuvan...
As a school we know that all parents place the safety of all children first and would never drive quickly along Coldharbour Lane. We have worked hard in recent times to meet...
On Friday last week the first ever Extended Project Get Ahead Day took place and was a huge success. This Get Ahead Day gave the current Year 12 students the chance to concentrate solely on their Extended Project and make fantastic progress towards completing their 5000 word essays. As I am sure many of us can appreciate, often the hardest part of a big task is getting started and this day provides all the students both the time to focus on their project and the much needed one to one support from their project supervisor.
A Year 12 Extended Project is an additional qualification that all our Sixth Form students complete as part of their studies at Post 16. It is something we are incredibly proud to offer our students. The exciting aspect of any EPQ is that it can be based on any topic and any title, as it is actually the students themselves who decide upon the direction of their projects. The students work hard in the early months of Year 12 learning and developing independent study skills and begin the all important research into areas of interest. These areas of interest then blossom into fully fledged projects in the months after Christmas and with the support of their supervisor the project writing can begin. In the past we have welcomed projects ranging from child mental health to 3D animation and, it seems, all possibles inbetween. One particularly memorable project was on a modern interpretation of Dungeons and Dragons.
I am pleased to say that the students made outstanding efforts last week and they really did use their time wisely. I look forward to reading this year’s projects and celebrating all the effort made by the students.
