News
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Darwin House Celebration Assembly – Summer Term 2022
The Darwin House Celebration Assembly for the Summer Term saw multiple winners celebrated including: Academic Progress Awards: These awards are based on both results and progress so all students can take an award no matter what their ability: Year 10 – Samuel Wright, Ben Fairchild, Lauren Mace, Harriet Dadds, Evie Roberts, […]
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Silver Duke of Edinburgh Group Battle to Success
Students navigated their way from Waterhouses to Ilam over a three day expedition to earn their Silver Award within our Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme provision. They successfully completed the 20 conditions required for this section of the award and worked together to navigate, cook, camp and keep up spirits […]
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Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Success
A record number of over 50 Year 10 students have successfully been able to plan, prepare, navigate and demonstrate camp craft skills to successfully complete their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme assessed expedition. Students walked just over 10 miles each day, navigating their way around Staffordshire’s Cannock Chase area, […]
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Year 7 & 8 County Athletics Championships
After the recent Cannock and District Athletics events at Aldersley Stadium, eight pupils from Year 7 and 8 qualified to represent Staffordshire at the County Championships. Amongst many highlights, Ellie Irvine’s (Y7) high jump cleared 1.15m to finish 6th. Annie Evans (Y8) threw three discus and her first attempt […]
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Year 12 Trip to Twycross Zoo
As part of their A-Level Biology course, Year 12 students ventured off to Twycross Zoo in order to meet tigers, giraffes, lemurs, snow leopard, meerkats and more besides. The visit was part of their studies on biodiversity and classification of species and provided practical examples to apply to the theory […]
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Friary Dance Troupe Shine in Day of Dance
A Friary dance troupe took part in the Lichfield Fuse Festival’s Day of Dance. The event was designed to bring dance into the community and was well attended as part of the wider Fuse Festival. Sophie Butler, English teacher and dance co-ordinator, said: “The girls rehearsed tirelessly for the show […]
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Blazers Out for Summer
Having got through the first hot day, and looking at the forecast until the end of term, we have decided to allow students to leave their blazers at home for the remainder of term. This will help make the day easier to negotiate and comes on the back of our […]
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Preparing for a Heatwave
The good news is that reports suggest we’ll have a run of good weather over the last week and a half of the school year and lots of us will enjoy it over the weekends too. Even so, we want to remind parents to prepare their child for the sun […]
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Inside Story – The Friary Fake News Scandal
The Context As a society, we all now recognise the term ‘fake news’. Opinions published as fact, deliberate stories to mislead, personal agendas using misinformation to get a ‘win’, and the over-reaction, quick-to-anger, and abuse that follow this around. We have seen Donald Trump’s ‘fake news’, British politics is increasingly […]
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URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT – FAKE NEWS ALERT
We have an important announcement related to ‘Fake News’ that has been distributed about our school. We can confirm that any claims or rumours of outlandish changes at our school next year are false and should be ignored. Our Head of History, Mr Rivers-Boyce, has provided a video explaining how […]
