Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends So, another half term whizzes to an end. Once again, it has been busy with lots going on inside and outside the classroom and the students and staff are all ready for a well-earned break. Last week Mrs Bernadotte announced the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, I hope you were allowed to work from home and enjoyed the snow day as much as our students and staff did – it was a real Brucie Bonus! Joel Park filled up with children, parents and teenagers soon after 9am to get the best fresh...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends This week’s blog is about “getting involved”. We have had a relatively quiet couple of weeks in terms of whole school events due to PPEs, but speaking to individual students; it is clear there is still a lot going on behind the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends A life coach came up with a formula that shows the 3rd Monday in January is when we are most likely to feel a little more miserable than usual with the frustration of failed New Year resolutions, credit card bills, dark evenings and...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, As Mrs Kennedy reported last week, the focus of our assembly for this term was Challenge. Hemani Rull in 9C, pictured below, certainly challenged herself last week as she took part in the local elections for the Youth Parliament MP...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Happy New Year! Last term Mrs Pearce and I used Inspire as our theme for the first assembly of the term and this week we are reflecting on Challenge. We reminded the girls that we have daily challenges in addition to extra ones that...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, As of last Co-Headteachers’ blog, there were 12 days ‘til Christmas remaining and so most of the last events of the year have had a distinctly Christmassy feel. So, and sing along if you wish…..on the twelfth day ‘til Christmas,...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It is 12 days until Christmas!  Festive celebrations began in earnest last week with the arrival of the beautiful tree in the school hall. On Friday, the Heads of House, the sixth form senior House prefects and Year 11 prefects all...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Is it really too early to talk about Christmas already? I think not; Christmas tunes are already playing on the radio………so therefore we can excitedly start our countdown for all things Christmas at The Holt. For the last couple of...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Our Year 12 students celebrated their achievements during a GCSE certificate presentation morning on Monday. We were delighted to welcome back Mrs Holland, who retired in the summer, to be part of the celebrations of her very last...