Bushey Meads News Issue 74 1st July 2016

On a day when a group of Year 5 students were visiting Bushey

Meads School for an inspirational Technology Day, it was a real

delight to visit the IT Faculty and see what exciting things were

happening. Whilst the Year 5 students were engaging with a

programming activity, our own students were having a great lesson

writing code to control their BBC Micro:bits, which every Year 7

student received.

I was provided with a detailed explanation of how the students were using the specialist software and

programming code to control messages to the Micro:bit and was given a great demonstration of what they

could get the bit to do. The students were very excited that their new hardware could be programmed to

play music and they are looking forward to creating their own computer games – very impressive!

Mr Turner – Executive Principal

Dates for the

Diary

4 July

Y8 Spanish Trip Catalonia

5 July

Y12 Law Trip Old Bailey

Y12 EPQ Training 3.15-4.15

7 July

Y10&12 Celebration of Child Care

8 July

Y7-10 So Last Era Rewards

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Student of the week is Jay - 7Willow for his

outstanding attitude and contribution to the Bushey

Meads community. Jay has been a consistently well

behaved and enthusiastic student. Not only does Jay

have 100% attendance and nearly 150 achievement

points, he also plays for the school football team and

is one of our BMS Buddies. Jay has conducted

himself in a mature and sensible manner as a Buddy

and contributed to the smooth transition of the new

Year 7 students. Keep up the excellent work. Well

done!

Dan - 12Sycamore

Our KS5 student of the week is Dan who has

served the school community as a Senior

Technician and has supported the running of

many school events. He has been a real support

for the performing arts faculty and an

inspirational leader to younger students. Dan is

studying graphic design, ICT, media studies,

photography and the Extended Project

Qualification.

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Arrangements for Collecting Exam Results

Years 11-13 will all be excited and anticipating the moment where they can open their results following their hard work this

year. Students can arrive at school at the times given below which will be followed by the distribution of the results.

Thursday 18th August: Sixth Form Study Centre

YEAR 13: Arrivals from 8:30 Results distributed: 8:50

YEAR 12: Arrivals from 9:30 Results distributed: 9:45

Thursday 25th August: Main Hall

YEAR 11: Arrivals from 9:00 in the School Restaurant

Results distributed: 9:30 from the Main Hall

Danielle Bowe - Lead Practitioner for English and Whole school Literacy

This week’s WOW is particularly apt given our celebrations at rewards evening on Wednesday night- Virtuoso.

A reminder also, that auditions have opened this week for our next fantastic school production-‘Bugsy Malone’.

Theme of the Week - Excellence Mr Turner – Executive Principal

Our outstanding Head of Faculty for PE and Health, Mr Cartledge,

led a series of inspirational assemblies this week for all year

groups in the school on the theme of excellence. He based his

thoughts around the amazing achievements of long distance

athlete Mo Farah, arguably the best British athlete of all time, and

encouraged all students to demonstrate real determination, self-

discipline and desire to achieve at the highest level.

Teacher Toolkit - Marking & Feedback- 22nd June Mrs Charles

The Marking and Feedback Teacher

Toolkit which took place after school on

Wednesday was attended by Teachers,

TAs, TAPIs and Learning Supervisors,

and followed the Marking and Feedback

Fortnight 3.

The session opened with an impressive

presentation by the Student Learning

Consultants who talked enthusiastically

about what helps them best and why.

The SLCs were followed by representatives from each faculty who showcased exemplary marking and feedback and at

the end of the session marking champions received a prize in recognition of their outstanding practice.

Year 10 Pre Public Examinations PPEs

With our Year 11 students now having

completed all their GCSE examinations, they

enjoyed their final Year 11 Leavers Assembly

and their superb Prom on Monday night. Our

Year 10 students are now officially the oldest

students in Key Stage 4.

I have been very impressed with how seriously

they have taken their Pre Public Examinations

or PPEs and how well they are preparing for

arguably their most important school year to

date as they embark on their final few weeks of

Year 10 and look forward to the crucial Year 11

chapter.

The photo above shows them at the start of their all-important English PPE on Monday morning – a great

preparation and experience of what is to come this time next year.

Well done Year 10s!

Mr Turner

Executive Principal

Sara Ash, Assistant Headteacher

Wednesday 29 June saw our annual Rewards Evening celebration

where 150 students from years 7 – 13 were recognised for their hard

work and commitment this academic year.

We were honoured to have Baroness Billingham of Banbury as our

guest to issue the certificates to all the students and also speak to

the audience. Her story of being a “Barnados” girl and spending time

in foster care as a child was inspirational with the key message “it

does not matter where you start but where you finish”.

Baroness Billingham has been a member of the House of Lords since 2000, entering a career in politics after

being an English teacher.

Students, parents, carers, staff and governors together made the evening an occasion to remember.

Particular recognition must go to the seven students, listed below, who were voted “Student of the Year” for

their year group and the students receiving the special awards for service to the school community – an

amazing achievement.

Students of the Year

Year 7 Luke Robinson

Year 8 Samuel Bilson

Year 9 Yama Qarib

Year 10 Jessica Smith

Year 11 Vamsi Dyjecinski

Year 12 Evie Hewitt

Year 13 Kevin Tailor

Executive Principal’s Award

James Allett and Eleanor Williamson

Chair of Governors’ Award

Emily Charalmabous and Benjamin Nunes

Mr Chalkley – Head of D&T faculty

Year 7 students representing each House took part in the first Rocket Car Challenge, inspired by the BLOODHOUND

Super Sonic Car that hopes to break the Land Speed Record later this year.

The students built their cars in lunchtime and after school workshops and on Friday, 24th June took them to Watford

UTC to race.

There was a large variation in the

performance of the cars, ranging from

top speeds between 35mph to 55mph in

1 second!

Congratulations to all the students

involved and particularly the winning

team from OAK house!

To find out more about the BLOODHOUND car, go to www.bloodhoundssc.com

Check out the video of the Bushey Meads cars on our website, made by Devan Palmer in year 10.

SEN SPORTS Jayne Maloney

On Thursday, 23rd June, after school, we

welcomed Mark McManus from Watford FC

to our SEN sports club. At least 13 of our SEN

students and three members of the SEN staff

from Base took part in an inclusive skills and

drills based football session followed by a

energetic football match, where staff also

joined in.

Student Kai Shah, 8 Maple, said: “Mark

included everyone in the session and he

made it feel like a proper football training

session. I really enjoyed it.” Mark will be

returning for the next two Thursdays and

hopefully in the future too.

Thanks to Mrs Hedges and Ms Andrews for

their amazing support as always.

Woodside Stadium, Wednesday 24th June 2015

A great day for Bushey Meads athletics teams !

Last Wednesday saw 100 Bushey Meads students from Years 7-10 competing in the

annual Watford District Athletics Championships at Woodside stadium. The event

featured all 15 secondary schools in the area and was a very competitive day of

highly entertaining athletics. It proved to be a very successful day for the school with

all of our athletes contributing to a fantastic win in the overall District B League

competition. In the overall schools combined competition Bushey Meads came a

very creditable 6th place overall which was a fantastic reflection of all members of

the team.

Special mention must to go the three students who won their individual events on

the day to become outright District Champions for 2016. These were :

Kaitlyn Williams - Year 8 Girls Discus (Distance : 21.68m) (Kaitlyn recorded her 2nd

District Championships win in a row after 6 consecutive County League successes)

Max Musula - Year 7 Boys Shot Put (Distance : 9.79m)

Jack Leyshon - Year 10 Boys Javelin (Distance : 37.15m)

In an excellent day’s athletics for our students we also had 13 further podium finishes - an excellent achievement.

2nd

Toyosi Ojedeji - 2nd Year 7 Boys 100m

Jess Benveniste - 2nd Year 7 Girls 1500m

Joel Smith - 2nd Year 9 Boys High Jump

Yama Qarib - 2nd Year 9 Boys Shot

Chris Osei - 2nd Year 10 Boys 100m

3rd

Tavi Vieru - 3rd Year 7 Boys Pole Vault

Shantae Plummer - 3rd year 7 Girls Javelin

Henry Stewart - 3rd Year 9 Boys Javelin

Megan Sjollema - 3rd Year 9 Girls Long Jump

Bella Parker - 2nd Year 9 Girls Javelin

Curtis Meale - 3rd Year 10 Boys 400m

Sam wright - 3rd Year 10 Boys Pole Vault

Rez Bharmal - 3rd Year 10 Girls 200m

Other top 5 finishes included :

Tom Phillips - 4th Year 7 Boys Long Jump

G Zhelyazkova - 5th year 7 Girls Hurdles

Billy Garvey - 4th Year 8 Boys Pole Vault

Jack Fordham - 5th year 9 Boys 300m

Aidan Angold - 4th Year 9 Boys Pole Vault

Euan Enright - 4th Year 10 Boys 1500m

Aidan O’Mahony - 4th Year 10 Boys High Jump

Chris King - 5th year 10 Boys Shot

Olivia Mcmanus - 5th year 10 Girls High Jump

Year 10 Boys Relay - 4th

Well done to all of our students who took part making it such a successful day for the school.

B League Boys - Totals

1.Bushey Meads - 496

2.Bushey Academy - 403.5

3.FC Academy - 266.5

4.Rickmansworth - 254.5

5.Westfield - 158

B League Girls - Totals

1.Bushey Meads - 352.5

2.St Margarets - 349

3.Bushey Academy - 306.5

4.Rickmansworth - 274

5. FC Academy- 165

6.Westfield - 59

B League OVERALLS

1.Bushey Meads - 848.5

2.Bushey Academy - 710

3.Rickmansworth - 528.5

4.FC Academy - 431.5

5.Westfield - 217

Overall results

1 St Clement Danes 1207

2 Parmiters 1074

3 Queens 1060

4 Haberdashers 1047

5 St Michaels 1004

6 Bushey Meads 848.5

7 Aldenham 782

8 The Bushey Academy 710

9 Rickmansworth 528.5

10 Watford Boys/Girls 507.5

11 Royal Masonic 476

12 St Joan of Arc 471

13 Francis Combe 431.5

14 St Margarets 349

15 Westfield 217

Cricket result

Year 8 Cricket

Date : Tuesday 21st June

Result : BMS Win FCA 44-4 (15 overs) BMS 49-0 (9 overs)

Team: James Kimber, Ryan Pearce, Rosh Marsh, Lewis Reid, Pavit Sangasinha, Hassan Ali,

Vedant Christian, Pallav Hingu, Yash Gohil, George Issa, Arunesh Uthayakumar and Billy Garvey

Comment : This was a good start by the Year 8 cricket team. FCA batted first and the team

fielded well, making good decisions and communication in the field. An area to improve was

our bowling with the boys needing to focus on their line and length which will reduce the

amount of wide balls. Hassan and Pavit batted comfortably but were frustrated at the lack of

quality balls that were provided. Overall a good performance and on to the next fixture versus

St Joan of Arc.

A reminder all the latest BMS PE and Health news can be found daily at the PE and

Health Faculty twitter page @BMSPEand HEALTH

PE Information

Rounders Results

Sadly with the recent rain and saturated fields the year 7,8, 9 and 10 district rounders tournaments were all cancelled this week.

However this did not stop a friendly game taking place on the boggy fields of Bushey Meads between the year 8 and 9 rounders

teams.

The game was a very close affair with the year 9 squad just sealing a 10 - 9.5 victory with the final ball of the game - well done

Megan Shah!

We will try really hard not to be beaten by the weather!

Year 8: Abby Andrews, Kelly Lavelle, Cerys Lightfoot, Nathra Sriharan, Nicole Redmond, Kanishka Gunasegaran, Anna Finley,

Vanshits Mishra, Amy Sjollema, Tashfia Monzur, Ayesha Sindhi

Year 9: Mel Bonyadi, Bella Parker, Megan Sjollema, Anouska Barrett, Ragavi Aravindan, Megan Shah, Riya Kulkarni, Angel D’Alwis,

Ashvina Trivedi, Lottie Wright

Staff Development - Wednesday 29th June

Wednesday morning saw PE staff at Bushey Meads further their professional development by

attending an athletics coaching session.

The session was run in conjunction with athletics satellite club

Watford Harriers, and delivered by the school's regular athletics

coach Peter Griffiths.

Students in year 7 who have regularly attended athletics

training took part in the session so that staff could observe

some of the practices used in order to help develop running and

relay techniques.

Through using a series of mini challenges Peter demonstrated

how students could solve problems to warm up and use the correct running techniques in order to improve their athletic

performance.

The session finished with students aiming to demonstrate their new techniques in a competitive game of noughts and crosses.

Staff gained valuable tips for assisting in lesson delivery and the students whose attitudes were

exemplary enjoyed a fun session that they can build on for the future.

Thanks go to Peter and Watford Harriers for putting on the session.

Students involved:

Charlie Mainwaring, Luke Robinson, Tom Phillips, Aaron Doody, Vicky Fordham, Isobel Hart

Lauren Roberts, Louisa Wright, Betty Coste, Francesca Boselli, Shantae Plummer, Jess Benveneste,

Zeal Rathod, Caitlin Jones, Zoe Picksley.

Sports Clubs provided by external coaches

Girls Yoga - Thursday’s after school, all welcome

Athletics with Watford Harriers Athletics Club Tuesday’s

Bring kit and meet in the sportshall / astro at 3.05

Sessions will continue throughout the Summer term on Tuesday evenings.

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House Points 2015-2016

ASH 9592

BEECH 9583

MAPLE 8688

ELM 8671

SYCAMORE 8621

OAK 8579

WILLOW 8253

Year 8 Spanish trip 2016 Mrs Charles – Spanish teacher

40 Year 8 students will be spending the 4th - 8th July in Barcelona on a language and culture trip. The

students will be accompanied by Mrs Charles, Mr Chalkley, Ms Rowden and Ms Cutts.

To follow our blog, please go to 'Trips and Visits' > 'Year 8 Spanish Trip 2016' on the school website

or click on the link below.

http://www.busheymeads.org.uk/category/trips-visits/y8-spanish-trip-2016/

¡Hasta luego!

Channels of Communication

In a large school it is important to know who to contact if you would like to raise a concern or provide us with

information. If you have a concern you would like to share with the school regarding your son or daughter

your first point of contact needs to be the subject teacher or the form tutor. They can be contacted via the

school email: reception@busheymeads.org.uk, marking it for their attention, or by telephone: 020 8950

3000.

FORM TUTOR SUBJECT TEACHER

PASTORAL TEAM

Mr O’Kelly (KS5)

Ms Danecha (KS4)

Mr Malik (Yrs 8 & 9)

Ms Smart (Year 7)

HEAD OF FACULTY

SENIOR ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER

KS3 – Mr Fisher

ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER

KS4 & KS5 – Mrs Ash

EXECUTIVE PRINCIPAL

Mr Turner

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT