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...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends,   Firstly, some successful news from the PE Department. On Saturday, Mrs White and Mrs Bolton took some of the Cross-Country team to the Berkshire Schools Cross Country race at Newbury Showground. Both the U13 and U15 team...

  We have made it past the halfway mark in January. Coming back to school on the 2nd January was certainly a shock to the system for many of us but we soon got back into the swing of things.    Year 11 have shown maturity and dedication throughout their PPEs...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Looking at the school calendar for this time of year – it is clear that things are gearing up gradually for the Spring term.  Year 11s are currently undertaking their PPEs, Year 9s options process will start shortly, the...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely Christmas break with your family and friends and wish you all the best for 2024! The 2nd of January did seem rather prompt to be coming back to school, I pondered yesterday on my drive in,...