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Animal Care at Holme Lacy College Campus part of Herefordshire, Ludlow, and North Shropshire College

05/10/2026

🎓We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again we absolutely love hearing from our precious students and all about what they are getting up to.
🐾During the summer two students from our last cohort (class of 2025) to complete the level 3 technical diploma in Animal Management (now tlevel in animal management) touched base with us to let us know how they were getting on. Lily and Darci had just completed their first year of their veterinary nursing degree Aberystwyth University and it sounds like they are really enjoying their studies.
📑Both students are finding the course really interesting and they have found lots of the information they learned during their time at Holme Lacey is coming into handy, including modules such as anatomy and physiology and animal nursing 🙇‍♀️
🐶In addition to this Lily has managed to move her own pet sitting and walking business up north where she is proving popular.
😊We’re really proud of you both and can’t wait to hear what you get up to during your second year of studies.

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30/09/2026

🧫Our level 2 Animal care students were tasked to create a labelled cell using Playdoh and their gcse memory as a starter activity for their next learning outcome: animal cells and tissues.

Some great recall and artwork here by this lovely bunch of students 🤔

*and they resisted the temptation to mix the Playdoh too! 🎨

playdoh

10/08/2026

🐾 🫧 🚙 Our second year T Level in Animal Management and Behaviour students raised an incredible £167 for Hereford and Worcester Animal Rescue through their charity car wash fundraiser.

With the generous support for Ned Potter LTD, who donated both car washing supplies and £75, the students decided to use the money to help cover the animal rescues bill at Brookfield Vets, Hereford & Ledbury.

A huge thank you to everyone who got their car washed and supported the event, and a special thank you to Ned Potter for their kindness and generosity. 🚙 🫧 🐾

12/07/2026

📧We were so excited to hear from ex animal management student Lexi a couple of weeks ago with an update on how things have been since she left Holme Lacy last summer.
🌏since finishing college Lexi and fellow student Holly have spent 8 months in New Zealand where they reared nearly 2000 calves, worked on a dairy farm as one of a team of 4, milking 700 cows twice a day in a 54bale rotary parlor.
🌅Lexi says although the “4am starts and 5.30pm finishes weren’t easy they absolutely are something I won’t ever forget”
👩‍🌾Lexi worked alongside people that had been on the farm for 10+ years and had milked the same cows everyday and knew any of their tag numbers just from seeing the back of them.
🐄As well as all this both Lexi and Holly were involved during the whole of mating season including assisting with artificial insemination.
🐮And the best bit; they are returning to New Zealand this summer as head calf rearers.
✈️It wasn’t all work though and they managed to explore plenty of the local area and also fitted in a trip to Perth for some Ozzie adventures.
😊👏🏼All the HL team are so proud of what you have both achieved this year and can’t wait to hear what your return to NZ brings!

13/06/2026

🐴Our t-level 1st years spent some time learning how to plait our beautiful equine departments horses after their final exam this Thursday.

📑It was lovely to be outside in the fresh air after a mornings hard work, and it gave our students the chance to build their confidence around larger animals. Some of our students are undertaking placements at stables or ride in their spare time so some peer learning also took place.

Thank you to holmelacycollegeequine

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11/06/2026

🪲Our and students got lucky and managed to spend the morning up on our beautiful farm pond dipping before the rain came in ☔️
🕸️We spotted lots of mayfly and dragonfly nymphs, water boatmen and lots of other amazing invertebrate life. 🦋
We even had time to do a quick on site risk assessment before some time exploring the beautiful ancient trees 🌳
“Time spent in nature is never wasted time”

03/06/2026

🐊Just before half term our level 2 and T-level 1st year students took a trip to
Students got to learn all about the care and husbandry requirements of these reptiles, as well as getting up close to lots of other fantastic species. It was also a great opportunity to reflect on behaviour theory and consider enrichment as a means of ensuring typical behaviour. 🐊

01/06/2026

Our level 2 animal care students visited this morning. Larkholme is one of the colleges patrons and every year offer work experience placements and apprenticeships to our animal care students. This morning the students got to have a tour of their business and even got involved with some of the daily routine within the kennels.

Thank you very much 🐾

20/05/2026

🚍What a lovely way to spend the day. Today our 1st and 2nd years went on our first ever trip to explore .

🐾This was an opportunity not only to see some beautiful creatures up close in a really calm environment, but also for our second years to reflect on what they’ve learnt, and the first years to consider some of the new topics they will be learning in September ( ) 📚

🦓Many of our students find visiting ex-situ conservation establishments a completely different experience after completing one of our animal management courses. Leaners find themselves evaluating enclosure design, enrichment, welfare, visually health assessing individuals as well as observing their behaviour, no longer do they just say “ahhh” at the animal in the enclosure. 🐫

👩‍🏫Here at Holme Lacy we aim to teach you in a way that encourages you to transfer your skills and use your knowledge confidently out of the classroom. Today was a prime example of that.

🦎Thank you to all things wild for having us and we hope to see you again soon.

Address

Herefordshire And Ludlow College, Holme Lacy
Hereford
HR26LL

Telephone

+448000321986

Website

https://hlnsc.ac.uk/course-topic/animal-care/?_sft_course_location=holme-lacy, https://hlnsc.ac.uk/hlnsc-courses/animal-

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