Dear Parents, Guardians and FriendsI hope your half term turned out well and that you were able to find some time to enjoy the beautiful autumnal colours. The trees in Joel Park are at their best right now and the girls in detention yesterday gasped as they looked out...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Last week’s biology week ended on a real high on Friday, with the greatly anticipated “dissection day”. Having whetted appetites the week before with some great assemblies, Mrs Whitehouse and her team opened up four of...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends There has been a lot going on again this week! We welcomed hundreds of parents and their Year 6 daughters to our Open Evening and we hope they all enjoyed the displays and activities set up in department areas as well as...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Last week, we held our annual Harvest celebrations. New staff to the school are always quite surprised about how big an event Harvest is at The Holt and this year was no different. The preparations started almost at the start of...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends September is definitely a month of change and transition for our new students, their families and for our staff and their families too. We have staff who have had children starting primary school, secondary school or college this...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends This week Mrs Kennedy and I met with our first competition winners of the school year as we celebrated their success at becoming published authors. The students, in Years 8, 9 and 10, each had to write a 100 word mini short story...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Mrs Pearce and I hope you have all had a good break and enjoyed some lazy, relaxing days with your families.   We are into our first full week of term….with another five to go before the next holiday! Firstly,...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, As we write our final blog of this school year and we reach the end of our first one as Co- Headteachers, we can honestly say that it has been a fabulous year. We have enjoyed our new roles immensely and have felt so well supported...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, The staff and students have been having a lot of fun in the last week with House events, trips and sports day alongside attending lessons, taking end of topic tests, language orals and Year 9 have just sat their GCSE PPE (mock) in...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, An important part of our vision is for students to know how to work as a part of various teams, to learn how to build and sustain positive relationships with others and to leave us with fond memories of school that they will...