Dear parents, carers and friends It falls to me to write the last blog of 2024. I cast my mind back to the summer when we waved farewell to some of our older students after a rich and rewarding time at The Holt, and to September which saw us welcome a large number of...

Dear Parents/Guardians and Friends As we roll into the last two weeks of term, school had definitely taken on a Christmassy feel…….. On Friday, we held one of our annual highlights of the House calendar- The Christmas fair….. Weeks of planning for sure and a great...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends   Our Christmas festivities start this week.  The trees are up…Mrs Martin’s students set one in reception and Tracey Phillips sorted the tree in the main hall – it is amazing!On Monday Miss Vockins, Mr Turner and Mr Wong took a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, This week’s blog is a Harvest special! You were probably not aware, but 1st October was the United Nations International Day of Older People. All Holt students know about this as it was the focus of an assembly led by Mrs Martin...