Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It has been a difficult and challenging week for everyone and we are truly humbled by the support of our kind and vibrant community.  James was a wonderful teacher – the tributes are incredible and we will all miss him dearly....

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends How lovely it was to welcome back our Year 10 and 12 students to school on Monday. The site team have been working hard for many weeks now to make the site compliant with the Government guidance for partial re-opening, and they have...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It is week 9 of Holt@home and we are excited to welcome Year 10 and 12 students on site next week. Here is an update of things going on in the next couple of weeks Year 12 Mock exams next week – students have been revising for the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you all had a lovely and restful half term. The weather was glorious and definitely had a “holiday feel” about it, we even had the paddling pool out chez Pearce! So, this half term is the “home straight” of the year and the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It seems longer but it is now week 6 of Holt@home and week 9 of lockdown, albeit slightly relaxed as we stay alert. Just as we have settled into a lockdown routine (which has had many positive unintended outcomes), where our...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you enjoyed a lovely Bank Holiday weekend…..unusual indeed on two counts….firstly, to have a Bank Holiday Friday- I quite liked that….and secondly, celebrating VE day in socially distanced front lawn parties instead of the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It is now week 5 of Holt@home and week 7 of lockdown…..for me last week seemed to be the hardest as reality started to set in with everyone talking about the ‘new normal’ …. alongside the miserable weather. Stoicism, gratitude and...

Dear Parent, Guardians and Friends Another week of lock down ticked off………..at least we have had more great weather to enable some outside studying……until this week…….! On Thursday will be sending out some “bridging work” to our Year 11 students to help keep them...

Dear Parent/Guardian Re: Weekly update Welcome to the 3rd week of TheHolt@home and the 5th week of lockdown. I hope Easter felt like a break for you and your families and that you were able to enjoy the warm weather and fresh air. I am sad to share that both staff and...

  Dear Parent/Guardian Re: Weekly update Well, we are a week in to our new temporary way of doing things...and we have learned quite a lot…much is going well and of course there are things we can improve along our journey through this massive learning curve. What...