News
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National Citizenship Service (NCS): Year 11 Students
The NCS visited school this week to meet Year 11 students and to invite them to join this summer’s NCS programme. The programme lasts for 2 weeks and starts after the exams finish. The programme includes outward bounds activities, employability skills, group and team building work and contributing towards a […]
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Future PTFA Events
Our PTFA meeting on Monday 10 January mapped out the events on the horizon and served to highlight the fantastic group of parents who are making such a difference in our school. There are a number of events which parents are welcome to attend including: PTFA Quiz Night – Thursday […]
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Parent Guide to Sexual Harassment
Since March 2020, thousands of young women have been sharing their experiences of sexual harassment through the ‘Everyone’s Invited’ project. This is an online platform where girls ‑ who are still mostly in school – have described growing up in a world where harassment, including sexualised comments, slut‑shaming and the […]
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Saturday Schools for the Easter Term
With final exams coming up in many of the vocational courses, and Pre-Public Exams (Mocks 2) after February half-term, were are making sure our Year 11 students have a series of Saturday Schools designed to help them to perform at their best. Of course, though it looks like exams will […]
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School Update – New Year, Familiar Story
The following message went out to parents on Wednesday 5 January 2022: We start another new term, and with the latest COVID twists and turns, I wanted to give you an update on school’s approaches over the next few weeks. The wider picture in education is likely to be […]
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‘Chicago’ Takes The Plaudits
Our whole-school show, ‘Chicago’, won widespread acclaim form three packed nights and a busy matinee as the satire on corruption in the criminal justice system and the concept of ‘celebrity criminal’ were given the full Friary treatment. The excellent cast showed off their full repertoire of singing and acting with […]
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PTFA Raffle Helps School Funding
Our PTFA team did an amazing job with the PTFA Raffle in collecting an amazing list of prizes ranging from X-Box Series 3, an Arthur Price cutlery set, a create of wine, £250 worth of kitchenware, and much more besides from local businesses and parents. The raffle eventually raised £1,560 […]
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Year 7 Christmas Card Competition
Our School Library ran a Year 7 Christmas Card Competition which saw students challenged into designing a book themed Christmas card. The prize was a Terry Pratchett book called ‘Father Christmas’s Fake Beard’ The winner was Roxanna Clark (7J1) who entry was based around Roald Dahl. Nicola Burdett, School Librarian, […]
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Sixth Form ‘90’s Dress-Up’ for Guide Dogs UK
Our Sixth Form students have adopted ‘Guide Dogs UK as their chosen charity and launched their own fund-raising ‘90’s Dress-Up Day’ which saw students parade around the school in a whole host of brilliant and amusing costumes. These charity works were led by our Interact Club which sees Sixth Formers […]
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Christmas Carol Service at Lichfield Cathedral
Despite the growing COVID threat, we decided to hold firm with staging our annual carol concert at Lichfield Cathedral, and with the careful measures deployed by the cathedral team, we were delighted that we were rewarded by a fantastic service. There were well over 100 students involved – whether it […]
