Opportunities to view the school and speak to subject specialists will be between 6pm and 9pm.
Headteacher Talk will be at 6:15pm for internal applicants.
Headteacher Talk will be at 7:15pm for external applicants.
There is no need to book for this event, however please be aware that all students must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
There is no parking on site, please park your vehicles on surrounding roads.
January 6, 2022 02:25pm
It has been such a joy this week to welcome our students back into our community. After an incredibly disrupted academic year last year, it has been wonderful to see all the students back as a full school community again. It has also been lovely to see our new classrooms, new computer room, refurbished hall and brand new 6 th form centre open and alive with young people. Things are not yet fully back to normal of course, but we are heading in the right direction and I think we all feel cautiously optimistic about the year ahead.
With this in mind, I have been speaking in my assemblies this week about our five main priorities for the coming year and I thought it would be useful to share them with you:
However, the COVID pandemic is still very much with us so again can I ask all parents:
If we have a student in school who is ill and seems to have symptoms of COVID, we will contact you immediately and arrange for them to be sent home so that a PCR test can be arranged. In line with new government policy though, we are now not sending home any close contacts of any positive cases, or suspected cases, unless specifically told to do so by NHS Track and Trace. I would also like to remind you that the two gates in use this year are as follows:
Please can we remind all parents to be very considerate when parking to drop off or collect children, especially on Maidstone Road, which gets very busy at drop off and pick up times
We value the positive relationships that we have with you as parents so please continue to contact us at school if you have any queries. We can now meet face to face again so staff may invite you back in to school to meet with us if appropriate. However please can I remind you not to turn up and expect to see a member of staff immediately, as it may well be that the person you need is not available at that time.
This is a good time to also remind all parents that our parents evenings this year will remain as ‘virtual’ events, as we received a large amount of positive feedback about these last year. Whilst we may miss the face-to-face meetings of old, we will certainly not miss the queuing, the frantic movement between rooms, the noise, the lack of parking and so on. More information will be issued about these online evenings in due course.
In the meantime, the primary contact for you remains your child’s Form Tutor. If you have any queries, please contact them in the first instance either via email or a note in the planner. For more specific queries that you wish to address to other staff, please email or call the main school office who will be pleased to help you.
Finally, this link below will take you to the page on our website that has all the key dates for the coming year.
https://www.holcombegrammar.org.uk/about/term-dates/
I look forward to sharing further news with you as this year progresses, primarily through our fortnightly blog. In the meantime, I hope you have found this update useful and I wish you and your families an enjoyable weekend.
Yours sincerely,
Mr L.Preston
Principal
Holcombe Grammar School