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  • news story thumbnail Elementary, dear Watson...

    Gifted and talented pupils from SMH and local schools assisted Sherlock Holmes in solving a mystery. Led by boarding assistant Mr Flanagan, A level Theatre Studies students devised and performed a play based upon the work of Old Stonyhurstian Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which  a trail of clues  was left. Pupils then used modern forensic science techniques, including finger-printing, ink chromatology, and fabric analysis to identify their culprit.

     

     

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  • news story thumbnail The May Procession

    All of the lower school children took place in a May Procession, carrying spring flowers and singing hymns to Mary in beautiful sunshine.

     

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  • news story thumbnail Rhetoric challenge Hodder once more

    Rhetoric strode into Elements Playroom and threw down the traditional challenge to the young men of Hodder (as SMH was once known) "... to play, at an appointed time and place, at the English game of bat and ball." 

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