Student efforts help Shaftesbury in Bloom win GOLD!

We’re thrilled to share the news that Shaftesbury in Bloom has been awarded Gold in this year’s Britain in Bloom for RHS – Royal Horticultural Society! An incredible achievement that recognises the dedication, creativity, and teamwork of everyone involved! Students from our Gillingham campus and attendees from EMA Social Care played a proud part in […]

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News from the Pop-Up Café at the Gillingham Campus

Today’s pop-up café for lunch at the Gillingham campus went down a storm, and EMA student Lillie stepped up for the food prep, cooking, and making a cake dessert with chocolate sauce – from scratch! “Lillie gets involved with all the planning too – from choosing the menu, making the shopping list, and buying the […]

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Meeting students where they are, and enabling success.

Gillingham campus student Joshua began attending EMA in September 2024 and has overcome multiple barriers since then which has helped him hit targets and achieve goals, making his family and the staff working with him immensely proud. Tutor, Susanna, has provided some insight into what an average week at EMA is like for Joshua, and […]

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Planting for the Community – Gillingham Campus

Our annual collaboration with Shaftesbury in Bloom is underway! Gillingham students and attendees from EMA Social Care day opportunities have begun filling planters with a vibrant array of flowers. Once complete, these planters will be placed around the community for everyone to enjoy, and to support Shaftesbury’s entry into Britain in Bloom (part of the […]

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Building Confidence Through Communication: SALT at EMA

The Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) team at EMA is committed to creating a high-quality, responsive, and inclusive communication environment for all our students. We achieve this through a combination of small group therapy, classroom support, and targeted short-term interventions, taking a flexible approach to meet each individual’s needs. Kate leads the SALT team at […]

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Visual aids at the Gillingham campus

From lesson plans to enhancing learning, visual resources are utilised in so many ways at the Gillingham campus. In recent Maths Skills lessons, students were focusing on unitising — a key step toward using money independently. This helps students understand concepts like how one 2p coin is the same as two 1p coins, or how […]

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Gillingham: Three courses for the community

The training kitchen at Gillingham has been bustling with planning, prep, and stuffed peppers! Our students are working their way through three-course menus, which they’ll be serving at special community events here on campus after Easter. Each of them have designed their own menu, and are practising cooking not only their own creations but also […]

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Video: Using the dedicated training space at Gillingham

The students at our Gillingham campus have been making great use of their dedicated hospitality and retail training space, allowing for better delivery of courses and the support they need. We checked in with Tutor Natalie about how it’s going now the students have more room to develop their skills. They’ve also been welcoming students […]

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