News
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Christmas Carol Concert
The annual Friary School Christmas Carol Service took place with a full audience of parents and families as over 100 children were involved in singing, playing or speaking. The event is staged at Lichfield Cathedral, is free to enter, and includes all the well-loved carols including ‘Once in Royal David’s […]
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School Update – Jingle All The Way
The following parent update went out on Friday 20 December 2024: We just wanted to drop you an email to update you on a few topics as we head into the Xmas Break. This email covers: * DfE School Performance Tables * PTFA Fund-Raising * Staffing * School Trips * […]
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Year 7 Space Centre Trip
Year 7 students had an unforgettable visit to the National Space Centre in Leicester. Their adventure began with the interactive planetarium, where they learned about our solar system’s neighbours. The excitement continued with a thrilling talk on rocket science, featuring explosive demonstrations that captivated everyone. The students explored numerous hands-on […]
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Sixth Form Christmas Quiz
The Sixth Form held a Christmas Quiz to raise money for their charity Pathways Project. The Pathways Project is a domestic and sexual abuse service based in Lichfield & Tamworth, Staffordshire. The Christmas Quiz was brilliantly devised by our Charities Coordinator, Amy Robertson, with help from a handful of students […]
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Preparing Year 11 for LNAT & UCAT Exams
The competition for top universities and top degrees at Russell Group universities is intense, and the high university fees means that going to just any university is not necessarily a good or wise investment. Consequently knowing our individual students well through our annual Raising Aspirations surveys, we have targeted information […]
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities
As part of our Focus Week programme, and our ‘Who Are We’ theme where we look at the different experiences of our fellow Friary students, we celebrated International Day of Persons with Disabilities in school. The week saw special assemblies tutor time activities, a school ‘raising awareness of others’ video, […]
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House Debating Competition Standings
Our annual House Debating Competition has gone through 3 rounds this term with Year 13, Year 12 and Year 11 taking their turns. The topics have been as challenging as ever with the debates being centred around our Focus Weeks: Year 13 – Child Poverty Day – ‘Child poverty is […]
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Year 11 RE Trip to The Jamia Mosque
Our Year 11 RE students visited The Jamia Mosque in Derby to explore the lived reality of Muslims in the UK. Whilst on the visit, the students had a tour of the mosque and the wudu room. They also did activities with a British convert of Islam and spoke with […]
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Arabian Nights
Our whole school show saw ‘Arabian Nights’ play out over three nights and a matinee and each audience left impressed and happy. ‘Arabians Nights, (or ‘One Thousand and One Nights / Alf Laylah wa-Laylah) is a collection of Middle eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden […]
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Y11 House Debating Competitions on Migration
The Year 11 House Debate competition was held this week, with students debating the contentious motion that ‘Britain is full and inward migration has to stop’ as part of the Focus Week on International Migrants’ Day. Two school governors, Lyse Edwards and Greg Sugden, came in to judge the debate, […]
