Dear Parents and Guardians RE: Weekly update You may be expecting our weekly blog about now, however, our temporary new plan is to send you an email update each Wednesday instead. Once again as Co-Heads we are using our bandwidth so we will take it in turns each week...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It has been a very busy week at The Holt.  Despite ensuring all teachers are “work from home enabled” it has very much been business as usual. Last Tuesday, Year 9 and 10 students put their rugby officiating skills to practice at...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It has been another strange week of checking in with the Public Health England at 2.30pm each day to receive the latest advice on Coronavirus and wondering how it is going to pan out in the next few weeks. School closures are a last...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Well it has been quite a week here … and we would like to start by thanking you for your continued support and sensible feedback as we worked our way through the NHS 111 and Public Health England advice and guidance last week in...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you all had a good relaxing half term. 42 Year 10 and 11 students spent the break skiing in Claviere, a resort on the French/Italian border. They had a lovely time! Thanks to Miss Shephard for organising the trip and to the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Thankfully we came out of Storm Ciara unscathed save a few knocked over bins……and this week  things have been a bit calmer (just waiting for storm Dennis at the weekend!) as we hurtle towards the end of another half term already! We...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends This time last year, we were battling with the ‘Beast from the East’ and enjoyed two snow days! No signs of snow right now instead we are enjoying mild temperatures albeit wet and windy. Life in school is good with Year 12 receiving...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends With the end of January in sight…….(the dark mornings and dark evenings will soon be a mere memory),  the green shoots of spring are on the horizon to give us all a lift. There is definitely a feeling of “heads down” in January...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends At last, the frost has arrived on Monday prompting a discussion in the bike sheds with hardy students about the quality of gloves as we lock up our bikes in the shed at school!  More hardy girls took to the racecourse in Newbury on...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends With PPEs still in full swing, the school is very quiet at the moment at least for the students……. however, for staff, last Thursday evening we held a really helpful and productive training “twilight” inset evening. The theme was on...