News
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World Food Day – Great British Recipes
As part of our Word Food Day celebrations we have been sharing Great British Recipes that celebrate all that is great about our country’s cooking, foodstuffs and ingredients. This was flagged up in our canteen as we produced fantastic British dishes – using fantastic British ingredients – to celebrate our […]
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Partnership with Lichfield Hockey Club
The Friary Hockey Squad made the most of a fortunate opportunity to train at Lichfield Hockey Club recently, taking full advantage of the full-sized pitch to sharpen their skills ahead of upcoming fixtures. With extra sessions focused on match play and short corner routines, the team showed promising signs of […]
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Year 12 Partnership Evening
Our Year 12 Partnership Evening was well attended as parents came into school to learn about our school offer and the journey ahead of their children as Sixth Form and beyond stretches off into the horizon. The evening included an address by the Headteacher and then four sessions which parents […]
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Social Media & Student Well-Being
The Friary School has been selected to take part in an exciting new research project aiming to help young people use social media less and improve wellbeing. All parents in Year 9 and Year 10 have been contacted this week about their children taking part in this national pilot run […]
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Fire Drill
Our school staged our first fire drill of the year as a part of our scheduled practices which ensure our children and staff are ready should a ‘real’ evacuation be necessary. Our students have set routes to follow and set locations to get to so the dummy-runs are critical, especially […]
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House Debating Competition – Scrapping the Two-Child Benefit Cap?
Our House Debating Competition kicked off this week with our Year 13s making time amid their A-Level preparation and mock exam revision to debate the notion: ‘The two-child benefit cap should be scrapped.’ This was the first debate in our series and was part of the World Food Day Focus […]
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World Food Day
Our World Food Day took on a focus oof Briths food and has seen a celebration of the great dishes and diet our country can offer – and the threats to that diet whether to be through unhealthy food or low family income. The British themes saw the canteen adorned […]
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Friary vs Lichfield Cathedral – A Spirited Draw with Championship Potential
In a thrilling midweek fixture, Friary School took on Lichfield Cathedral in front of a lively crowd of parents and supporters. Despite settling for a 1–1 draw, The Friary delivered a performance that left spectators buzzing and the team coach beaming with pride. The home ground was alive with energy […]
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Community Support for Reading by The story Nook & Deanslade Fitness
Our school has benefited by ‘The Story Nook’, a local bookshop and Usborne partner, and Deanslade Fitness have worked together to provide a set of brilliant reading books to our school free of charge. The books are targeted towards Year 7 children – so hooking them into secondary school reading […]
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Attendance Standards & Educational Research
The Friary School’s attendance continues to sit higher than national averages by some margin, due largely to the close working relationships between parents and school. Over the past three years The Friary has utilised many different strategies to continue to keep attendance high for all students. These have included trialling […]
