Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends As the lockdown restrictions are starting to ease, we can now begin to make plans for our whole school summer event of sports day, or as we like to call it “HoltFest”. At The Holt, sports day obviously has a big emphasis on sport,...

Dear Parents and Guardian Right now all of our students from Year 7 to Year 13 are preparing for assessments. Year 11 and 13 have their ongoing ‘mini tests’, Year 7, 8 and 9 start their assessments on Monday 17th May and Year 10 and 12 have a little longer to revise...

As usual when the blog writing falls to me, the focus is primarily on the non-teaching aspects of the school that are both vital to support education, as well as making a key contribution to the overall experience for all of our students. I promise therefore not to...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends With the lighter evenings and good weather student participation in extra-curricular activities is more noticeable around the school…..my office is literally on the edge of the netball courts and  I am in awe of the intensity and...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, We are now three days into the summer term... I hope everyone is feeling recharged after a wonderful Easter break and long awaited outdoor reunions with friends and family..... and hairdressers! Before we look ahead at the term to...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends As I am writing this blog, the sun is shining and the sky is blue, there is definitely a feel of spring in the air. We are all really hoping that this continues into the Easter holidays particularly as we are now able to meet in our...

Dear parents and guardians, There is a feeling that spring has sprung at The Holt in recent weeks. I write this on the National Day of Reflection, organised by mariecurie.org.uk, with HRH Prince Charles encouraging us all to remember the sadness of the past year....

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends By Friday, we finally had our full school back and it was so good to feel the buzz of 1200+ students plus staff. I have really missed this! It was my duty day on Friday, so I had plenty of time to wander round and catch up with the...

Dear Parents and Guardians After eight weeks of holt@home it is good to welcome staff and students back to school this week… after so long, most of us have mixed feelings of excitement and apprehension. Here are the ten things that we have learnt after such a crazy...

Dear Parent/Guardian This week we are writing to update you on Lateral Flow testing arrangements, the return to school from 8th March and grading for GCSE, A Level and BTEC qualifications. Lateral flow testing We are pleased to report that the wider testing of...