In November, our Food Department were lucky enough to receive a donation from the Fish Heroes programme to give some of our Hospitality and Catering students a new and brilliant opportunity.  The donation consisted of 2kg of mussels which allowed our Year 10, 11 and sixth form students to exper...

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During the summer holidays, my parents mentioned to me that a family friend had offered me some work experience.  This offer was particularly intriguing to me as the friend in question was Chris Gilvear, Head of Programming at Jazz FM, a national radio station that runs online and on digital ra...

Many students with Developmental Language Disorder struggle to learn the vast amount of new terms that accompany the learning journey at secondary school.  One useful strategy looks at the different aspects of what a word means in order to create connections. By encouraging analysis of the d...

All absences for medical appointments, acting assignments, illnesses and any reason a student is going to be missing school need to be communicated to the attendance office on email: attendance@holmer.org.uk where they are entered into the SIMS system in one central office.    The direct l...