Head’s Blog

Sports Day, fresh ideas and looking ahead This week brought creativity, teamwork and plenty of House spirit – from our Year 5 Taster Day to a joyful whole-school Sports Day. It has been a wonderfully full and energetic week at […]

Leadership, House spirit and resilience From prefect interviews to Sports Festival plans and the final GCSE papers, this week has been full of challenge, reflection and anticipation. It’s been something of an intense day for me today as I have […]

As the sun finally emerged this week, it’s made me realise how far through the year we are and how quickly it seems to have arrived! The Year 11 Leavers’ hoodies have arrived, Year 10 will be finished with their work experience placements today, and […]

Next week, our year 10 pupils will be switching out their school days for work experience. We are proud to be one of a very small number of schools to still offer a work experience opportunity for pupils of Senior school age. The purpose of work experience has evolved over the […]

Hollygirt School has today confirmed a refocusing of its educational provision. At the end of the current academic year, the school’s Nursery to Year 5 provision will conclude, and from September 2026 Hollygirt will focus on providing education for pupils […]

This week, the senior school has been dominated by talk of this afternoon’s Staff Vs Year Eleven football match. The hype has been high as both managers and teams have been interviewed and offered predications for how the match will […]

It was lovely to welcome pupils back to school during Monday’s assembly. There always seems to be a more positive vibe once the halfway point of the school year has passed. My assembly interwove themes of Faith, Tolerance, Acceptance, and […]

We’re rounding off the half term with a busy week. On Monday, Year Ten and Year Eleven headed off to the Broadway Cinema for some literary enrichment, and a small team took part in a Ping Pong competition. On Tuesday, […]

I have had a lovely end to the week as I was in the library with the EYFS pupils, reading them a story as part of National Reading Week. I have made time in my day to read to EYFS on a few […]

We had a very inspiring start to the week in the Senior school as our Head Prefect, and Deputy Head Prefect led assembly on the topic of: Why Effort Matters More Than Talent. The pair did a great job of […]

Earlier this week the Government launched a consultation on children’s use of social media, following actions in countries such as Australia who have recently enacted a ban on social media for those under 16. Alongside a ban, the Government are […]

As you may already know, I started out as an English teacher; I lost count early on of the number of children who professed to be ‘bad at spelling’ and then proceeded to put an inordinate amount of pressure on themselves to become the fabled ‘Excellent Speller’, […]