News
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Year 12 UCAS Workshop
With the last term well underway, our Year 12 students participated in a UCAS Workshop event. The aim of the event was to inspire future aspirations, focus on planning for their future destinations after Sixth Form and to provide information to grow knowledge, enabling students to explore higher education, training […]
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Athletics Competition at Aldersley Stadium
Over twenty Year 9 and Year 10 Friary students competed in a Cannock and Staffordshire Athletics Championship at Aldersley stadium earlier this week. All participants were a credit to the school and we returned with some fantastic results. To name just a few: Chloe Butler gold in the100m Ava Nivan […]
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The Senior 7
Last week saw many Year 12s compete for the prestigious positions of the Senior 6. With over 25% of the cohort applying for the roles it was a tough competition. All students performed brilliantly in the application process and interviews and were a real credit to the school, so much […]
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Emotional Literacy Support
Our school has signed up to take part in a new scheme being rolled out in Staffordshire that supports children’s emotional needs – it is called ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant). This support is already delivered in school in other ways, but we are always keen to take on board […]
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Y7 Geographers Grabbing the Georeferenced Data
Our Year 7 geographers were out around the school collecting georeferenced data as part of developing the subject skills to take them into GCSE and beyond. The groups were first tasked with creating a survey about the quality of the school environment. This would be used to select their data […]
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Year 10 Employability Workshops
This week over two days our Year 10 students have taken part in Employability Workshops leading into Mock Interviews as part of our Raising Aspirations Programme. The sessions included information from a professional group of volunteers who visited the school to talk about employability skills, creating a positive first impression and […]
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Focus Week – Europe Day
As part of celebrating our students place in the world around them as we celebrated Europe Day (7 May) across the school with push on multi-culturalism, the benefits of learning a foreign language and the push on the opportunities in integrating across Europe (if not necessarily in the EU). The […]
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Darwin House Focus Week
Darwin House have been raising money for the Acorns Hospice for several years now and this year, the students put on another very successful charity week which once again highlighted how amazing our students are. The week was a fantastic success as students worked together as a house to raise […]
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Dementia Awareness Focus Week
It was competition week again at the Friary in support of Dementia Awareness. The Health & Social Care department asked students of all ages to draw something that made them smile and we had some amazing entries. These entries will be taken to The Spires Care Home. The purpose behind […]
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Year 8 House Debating Competition
Congratulations to the Year 8 students who have taken part in our debating competition on the topic, ‘Brexit has been a total success.’ This was a very topical subject and the students impressed the judges with their independent research. The external judges Lyse Edwards (School Governor) and Greg Sugden (School Governor) […]
