Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It was a pleasure to see so many of our Year 11 students and parents at our sixth form open evening recently, as well as many new students who are interested in joining us next year. We run our open evening as repeated subject...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends We have a very busy blog this week, there is so much to report on over the last seven days! Our PE department have had an action-packed week of events.  They have provided the following round up of all the events, tournaments, and...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I love autumn, it is a joyous time of year where the colours of nature are simply stunning. The grounds at The Holt look beautiful with the leaves on the trees in their full glory. Once again, the ceramic poppies are proudly on...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends I hope you had a good half term with your families.  My children are independent young adults now and as is the cycle of life I now spend more time visiting my father in Portsmouth, aunt in Skegness and mother-in-law in Manchester...

Dear parents, guardians, and friends And so, we reach the end of our first half term of the new academic year. For some. it may feel that it has gone in a flash; for others, it may have felt rather slower. For our Year 7 students it has been the first half term of...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends With the unseasonably warm weather coming to an end, it feels more fitting to be talking about autumn days and our Harvest Festival. Following on from Mrs Martin’s blog last week, our Harvest assembly on theme of water was led by...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends This week at The Holt we celebrate our annual Harvest Festival.  During this time, students are encouraged to reflect on the importance of supporting our local community and helping those in need.  Thank you for the donations that...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends At The Holt we value our traditions and the links we have with the past.  This was seen on Saturday when The Holt Association held their biannual reunion lunch party.  As always, the event was very well attended and an opportunity...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It was lovely to see our students basking in the glorious sunshine at the end of last week. Our grounds are lovely areas to sit with friends and enjoy………although we were joined by some buzzing “brown burrowing bees” on one of our...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends We were able to give a very warm welcome to all our students over the last week! Year 7 and 12 were in school on Wednesday for their induction days and were joined by Year 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 on Thursday.  Year 7 have settled in...