Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends It is 12 days until Christmas!  Festive celebrations began in earnest last week with the arrival of the beautiful tree in the school hall. On Friday, the Heads of House, the sixth form senior House prefects and Year 11 prefects all...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Is it really too early to talk about Christmas already? I think not; Christmas tunes are already playing on the radio………so therefore we can excitedly start our countdown for all things Christmas at The Holt. For the last couple of...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Our Year 12 students celebrated their achievements during a GCSE certificate presentation morning on Monday. We were delighted to welcome back Mrs Holland, who retired in the summer, to be part of the celebrations of her very last...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Our Year 11 students have had a busy time recently with their maths PPE last week and their English literature PPE this week. To help them manage their workload, we talk a lot about having a “GCSE mindset” and how to work on their...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Mr Furlong delivered remembrance assemblies all week to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War. The Royal British Legion led a national movement to say ‘Thank You’ to the entire generation who lived through the war and...

Dear Parents, Guardians and FriendsThis week was a great week for our newest House Broderers. Firstly, they held their first ever charity event, a bake sale and they raised over £80, which is remarkable.As part of that sale, they awarded prizes for the...

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...