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...

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...