SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM BLOG 25/11/2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, ‘What links a flow within the hydrological cycle and a coffee press?’   was one of the questions asked at the Geographical Association World Wise Quiz which took place at Reading School on Monday.  The geography department entered...

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM BLOG 21/11/2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Year 10 Design and Technology students went to The Design Museum last week. They all took part in workshops focusing on sustainability and The Design Ventura challenge. This is a challenge run by the design museum alongside a...

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM BLOG 13/11/2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends   On Monday, The Holt school fell silent to mark Remembrance Day.  Year 7 students gathered for a special service, where they observed the silence together, this also marked an important Holt tradition for our Year 7...

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM BLOG 6/11/2024

Dear parents, guardians and friends The heating system has whirred into action at The Holt, which means we must have entered the second half of the autumn term. Halloween and Diwali have been and gone, fireworks are fizzing, and – if you peer into the distance – you...

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM BLOG 24/10/2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends   What a busy last two weeks of half term……..   Last week was biology week, which at The Holt means one thing………. dissections…….once again huge numbers of students came to watch as the biology staff dissected a variety of...

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM BLOG 17/10/2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends   My nephew, Tom, is in his third year at university – I visited him on Sunday and naturally asked him how term was going, and he looked at me bemused saying it only started two weeks ago!! I couldn’t believe it as we have been...