News
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Rotary Schools Concert
For over 30 years The Rotary Club of Lichfield has been producing its very successful Annual Schools’ Concert as the principal Community Event of the year giving young people of all ages the opportunity to perform in a real theatre with professional advice and support. Friary students from across our […]
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Y7 Footballers Victorious over The Hart
In an exciting game our Year 7 boys proved victorious in their match against a talented team from The Hart School. In what was a close first half, The Hart took the lead when a ball over the defence caused our defenders’ trouble and their striker slotted the ball home. […]
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Support Our PTFA on Our Bag2School Collection
Our latest Bag2School Collection requires all donations by the end of school on Wednesday 19 March. Bag2School is a free eco-friendly fundraising scheme that helps schools, businesses, community groups, local councils, and charities raise funds through textile recycling as well as spreading textile recycling awareness. All parents have to do is drop in a […]
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Key Dates for 2nd Spring Half-Term
We have a long half-term ahead – 7 weeks in all – and it leads into a very short 1st Summer half-term. This means there is a lot crammed in this half-term, including some items which would normally roll through after the Easter Break. Once again we have produced a […]
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House Behaviour Awards
The end of each half term is always a perfect opportunity to celebrate the excellent behaviour of our students. The end of last half-term saw students treated to Valentine Sweet Bags on the final day before the half-term break. All 200 students rewarded had a perfect behaviour records and represented […]
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Lichfield District Council Youth Council Consultation
The governance team at Lichfield District Council are seeking the voice of young people and parents/guardians by reaching out to community groups and secondary schools through a consultation in relation to the Youth Council. The link to the consultation is here. Matt Allman, Headteacher, said: “It would be great if […]
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Safer Internet Week
During Safer Internet Week, we like to educate and inform our community in unconventional ways. This year, we looked at fake news and scams, with phishing emails a particular focus. We sent out dummy phishing emails to staff, pupils and parents that offered Amazon vouchers, iPhone 17s (which haven’t been […]
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National Apprenticeship Week
As part of our raising aspirations programme and to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2025, organisations and local employers visited The Friary School to provide inspirational apprenticeship and careers information and guidance to our students. Tutor time activities also ran throughout the week to inform students about employment training, employability skills […]
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Y8 Geography Trip to Mount Cook
Year 8 ventured out on an exciting trip to Mount Cook in Matlock as part of our Geography work on environment and habitat. During the day students took part in an orienteering course around the local area of Black Rock and the High Peak trail, navigating from point to point […]
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US Girls Project
Recently, we had the opportunity to host the latest training for Lichfield District Council’s ‘US Girls’ Project, which Isabella Lydall, Emily White, Grace Burton, Jessica Greaves (Y12) and Chloe Driscoll (Y13) were selected to be ambassadors for this year, after a group interview process. This session was the students’ first […]
