School that just re-opened after flood damage is flooded again by Storm Bert

A superior school that reopened connected Tuesday aft flood harm has been deed by devastating floods again owed to Storm Bert.

Year 3 and 4 classrooms astatine Holmer Church of England Academy successful Hereford were backmost successful usage connected Tuesday aft months of repair work, lone for the schoolhouse to beryllium submerged by floods yet again.

A large incidental has been declared successful parts of southbound Wales and dozens much flood warnings are successful spot arsenic Storm Bert brings much than a month’s worthy of rain successful immoderate areas.

Holmer CoE Academy, rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted successful 2019, was struck by a ‘devastating flood’ during a storm successful precocious September, which brought with it ‘significant damage’ to twelvemonth 3 and 4 classrooms.

Repair enactment was completed connected Monday, with pupils opening lessons successful the recently refurbished learning spaces the pursuing day.

One Hereford nonmigratory adjacent warned the schoolhouse connected X connected Friday: “Make definite the barriers are successful for tempest Bert this weekend.’

Pictures show, however, that Storm Bert has brought ‘heartbreaking’ caller flood harm astir the school, with the aforesaid classrooms present ‘ruined again’.

Hereford residents expressed their daze that flood harm has struck the schoolhouse ‘again’.

Facebook idiosyncratic Katie Bullock commented: ‘Heartbreaking. The children lone moved backmost into this artifact connected Tuesday. 

‘Good occupation each the Holmer children and unit are truthful resilient.’

Linda Elson added: ‘This mediocre schoolhouse needs moving oregon a moat built astir it.’

Local shot squad Westfields FC, who are besides trying to forestall h2o flooding their club, took to societal media to say: ‘So bittersweet to spot aft each the hard enactment to refurbish aft the past floods.’

When a tempest past swept done Hereford successful September, the schoolhouse said that ‘dedicated unit donned their wellies and got consecutive to work’ implicit a play to guarantee that lessons could instrumentality spot connected Monday.

Holmer CoE Academy has been deed by flooding successful the past, with Storm Dennis successful February 2020 causing important harm to the facilities and forcing the schoolhouse to tally classes successful a Hereford wellness club.

One erstwhile pupil astatine the superior school, Gemma Jones, noted: ‘That 1 gathering has ever flooded, adjacent backmost successful the precocious 90s erstwhile I was determination it’s ever been a problem. I hope determination isn’t to overmuch harm again.’

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