by Holt School | Nov 26, 2025 | Co-Headteachers Blog
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Last week began with a surprise appearance from winter. Snow fell briefly, just long enough for students to get excited and for staff to wonder if break duty would require skis! The snow didn’t stay for long, much to the student’s...
by Holt School | Nov 20, 2025 | Co-Headteachers Blog
Dear parents, guardians and friends One of the wonderful things about being a teacher is the opportunity that it affords to work alongside hundreds of creative people each day. On Tuesday evening, our Year 11 GCSE musicians put on a concert to showcase their work. Mr...
by Holt School | Nov 12, 2025 | Co-Headteachers Blog
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends We ended last week with a PSHE performance for our Year 8 students entitled “hooked”. This event was organised by Mrs Hornblow, our head of PSHE who said; On Friday, Year 8 students watched a short theatre production called...
by Holt School | Nov 6, 2025 | Co-Headteachers Blog
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Welcome back! We’ve hit the ground running this half term, especially for our Year 13 and Year 11 students who are straight into their PPEs. Good luck to all of them! It’s a marathon, not a sprint, between now and the summer exams,...
by Holt School | Oct 22, 2025 | Co-Headteachers Blog
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, The leaves are changing, the nights are beginning to draw in, everything smells delightfully like Pumpkin Spice, and the first half term is almost at an end. What a half term it’s been- we’ve had MacMillan Coffee Morning, a...
by Holt School | Oct 16, 2025 | Co-Headteachers Blog
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, I am starting off the blog this week with some sporting success. Mrs Bolton and Miss Johnson took 3 teams of great runners to the Berkshire round of the Cross Country Cup at Reading Bluecoat last Tuesday. All the girls had an...