Once again we were invited to participate in two local festivals – The Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Big Chill. London based performance poet Shane Solanki worked with Year 7 students and The Anomalies encouraged Year 8 and Year 9 students to write raps and poetry performed at the Market Theatre. Students continued to rehearse at the Ledbury Youth Centre during the summer holidays before their performance on the Words in Motion stage at the Big Chill festival.

In the summer we held a very successful Activity Week for adults with learning disabilities, which offered a range of activities such as cooking, art and dance.  The ‘Hurray for Summer’ summer school for 7-11 year olds was also fully booked, the week included cooking around the campfire, drama and craft sessions. The assistance of JMHS students was very much appreciated at these summer schools.

On Saturday 24th October Hereford 350ppm took place at Hereford Town Hall. The day explored Herefordshire's Carbon Choices and included films, workshops, information and children's activities.

The Ledbury Youth Theatre for 11-18 year olds, performed  their first production entitled ‘Voices’ which was a drama based on the written transcriptions of a group of senior citizens who live in Hereford, whom Jeanette McCulloch has been working with.
Lil, Betty, Pearl and Nellie, have all had interesting lives, and describe vividly their own stories from being an evacuee from the London bombs during WW2, becoming a Red Cross nurse after working with Lord Biddulph, to travelling the world in the 1940’s. The transcriptions were recorded by Marsha O’Mahoney.
These conversations and transcriptions allowed the students to research and discover much about a generation whose voice and opinions are often lost in this fast paced world that we live in. ‘Voices’ was a poignant, amusing and lively drama, which appealled  to a wide audience and was performed on 31st March and 1st April at the Market Theatre.

The JMHS adult Steel Pans Band, organised by Ursula Howes took part in a fundraising event at Mathon Parish Hall (raising money for the hall) on Saturday February 27th .

In January 2010 Pippa Hart and Cat Roberts from Ledbury Youth Centre worked with the Alternative Curriculum students from JMHS, on a series of murals based on the theme of ‘Sports’. These murals have been designed specifically to be displayed on a building near the sports fields in the school grounds.

There was an  Exhibition of Photography, Silver Jewellery and Botanical Illustration work that has been produced by fifty JMHS evening class students including students from JMHS. The exhibition took  place at  the Weavers Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury.

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