Dear parents, guardians and friends After an exhausting week for the Year 13 students completing their PPE exams, it is now the turn of our Year 11 students sitting their Maths and English PPEs ahead of the full mock exam season in January. The hall and surrounding...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you all had a restful half term with your families and managed to see relatives before Lockdown 2.0 on Thursday. The engineers managed to fix the burst water pipe and now the science, maths, MFL blocks are warm again...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Just a few days now to go to make it to the end of what must be one of the most challenging half terms anyone of us can remember! From my comfort zone as custodian of school finances and operations, I’ve had to get out of the office...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends With only one more week to go before half term, I have been reflecting on what a busy, successful and inspiring term it has been for students and staff across the school. Being a new member of the senior leadership team and head of...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends   Autumn is well and truly upon us. The nights are drawing in, the central heating is on and my winter coat is out of storage. I am fortunate to have the most beautiful view from my office, where you can see the lovely autumnal...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I was looking through some old emails at the weekend when I came across one that started,  ‘There is an ancient Chinese curse ‘May you live in interesting times’ and we are most certainly living in interesting times.’  Our current...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends At The Holt, we always mark the seasons and special times of the year. Doing so helps to bring us together and lends a rhythm that weaves its way through our learning and teaching. This includes House competitions such as sports...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends This week we have enjoyed a fabulous spell of “warm weather” with temperatures topping 30c on Monday. Personally, this feels like “hot” weather to me, rather than “warm”. However, I was watching a weather item on the news on Monday...

Dear Parent, Guardians and Friends, Over the summer, I read a book of excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s newspaper columns, radio talks, speeches and correspondence about the challenges in life and her thoughts and arguments are as relevant today as they were 70 years...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Well, we have finally made it to the end of a very difficult year. Never did we imagine, when we set out our new school year in September, that our Year 11 and 13 would finish their school days so abruptly and the rest of our...