Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Monday 22nd April was Earth Day when we are encouraged to celebrate our remarkable planet and be reminded of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability.  Students are investigating this further in the Thought...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you had a lovely break; with many of us celebrating Easter, or Eid or Vaisakhi…..whatever you did, I hope you found some time to spend with family and friends to get out and about or even get some well-deserved rest over the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends   The last full week of term was busy for sure.....here we go! Last Friday, the history and government and politics department put on a lunchtime workshop looking at the issue of nuclear weapons with an external guest speaker...

Dear Parents, Guardians, and FriendsAfter months of planning and rehearsal, it is show week. If you are reading this on Wednesday or Thursday, some tickets for The Holt School’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are still available at The Holt...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Firstly, we’re travelling back in time last week (excuse the pun) as our Year 8 students enjoyed a theatre trip to see The Time Machine. Mr Adams told us about the trip: Year 8 students enjoyed a visit to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre...

Dear Parents, Guardians, and Friends,   With spring just around the corner, the school site is starting to bloom. We are fortunate to have beautiful grounds that the students really make the most of during the warmer months. KS3 gardening club are just getting...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends We are very fortunate at the Holt to have a full time, experienced and very enthusiastic careers lead. Her name is Mrs Hart and she has contributed to the blog this week by telling us all about the careers events she organises...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you had a lovely half term break. It is incredible what a difference a week makes; driving into school on Monday, I no longer needed my full beams along those country roads. Even my drives home have not been so dark and...

Dear Parent, Guardians and Friends We have a few school trips setting off this week.  We wish Year 9 well on the Battlefield trip with the students and staff departing at 2.45am on Friday morning….(school trips always seem to start and/or finish in the middle of the...

I wonder if you know this quote from Daniel Tammet: “Like works of literature, ___________ _____ help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view”. It is one of my favourites because it encapsulates much of what...