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Al Brady Inspires Students at Moreton Campus

one ema tutor and three ema students making food in the moreton tearooms - rolling out dough and flattening it with a rolling pin

For Enrichment Week just before the Easter break, our Moreton campus welcomed a very special guest—cooking content creator Al Brady—for a two-day hospitality session with our students. Al brings an impressive range of experience and clientele, having worked with brands such as Hellmann’s, Arla, Magimix, Kilner, Barnes & Noble, The Wasabi Company, and The Watercress […]

Building Confidence Through Communication: SALT at EMA

two ema students and one tutor playing a game in an ema gillingham campus classroom

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 […]

New: Accredited Animal Care Qualification – Apply Today

a goat is shown in the ema animal studies area at moreton

NEW to EMA! Accredited Animal Care Qualification Places available from September 2025 – apply today! We’re excited to be launching a brand-new Animal Care course at our Moreton campus here in Dorset, and we’re accepting applications now. The EMA Moreton campus at The Walled Garden has a dedicated animal area and is home to a […]

EMA at Careers and Apprenticeship Show – March 18th

Next month EMA will be attending the Careers and Apprenticeship Show at The Bournemouth International Centre and we’d love for you to stop by our booth. EMA continues to grow and in 2024 we introduced new options for supported internships, a state of the art training kitchen for hospitality students, and a new Dorchester based […]

Baking cakes, and boosting confidence at Moreton

4 ema students in the stage of preparing dinners in the moreton tearooms

The training kitchen at Moreton provides a professional space for our students at various levels to develop their cooking and hospitality skills. This past week, the Level 1 group baked York fingers and Eccles cakes using pastry they had made and frozen in a previous session. Knife skills, weighing ingredients, rolling and folding pastry, oven […]

Visual aids at the Gillingham campus

one student with a tutor undertaking a maths lesson in gillingham

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 […]

Students explore next steps with EMA social care

two students showing pizzas

EMA students on the Preparation for Adulthood study programme have been making regular visits to the new EMA Social Care location in Dorchester town centre as they explore their future options for when they graduate from education. These visits give them a first-hand look at the facilities used by our current day opportunities attendees, allowing […]

Gillingham: Three courses for the community

one ema gillingham student finding the right ingredient

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 […]

New Adult Social Care Brochure

one ema moreton student in Adult Social Take

If you’re looking to find out more about the amazing opportunties we offer in adult social care, our new brochure is now available to download. Click the front cover below!

New Adult Social Care Day Opportunities location now open!

a location in adult social care day opportunities

It’s been a long time coming, and we’re so excited to have officially opened our new day opportunities location in Dorchester. Today was our OPEN DAY at the new Day Opportunities location in Dorchester. We had a lovely day showing people around, and giving a first-hand look at the new facilities which are now up […]