News
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Sixth Form Enrichment
We are very much a school that seeks to develop the whole student – not just in terms of academia, but also in terms of softer skills which are equally important as the students moving into post-school life. Our Sixth Form Enrichment programme has had to be narrowed this year […]
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Rock Stars Support The Friary COVID Message
The COVID message remains a high priority for us as we have a key role not only in enforcing measurements but also educating students as to why they are important. Naturally, teenagers benefit from imaginative and varied approaches, so having had our fill of DfE posters and advice documents, we […]
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Focus Week – World Heart Day & Year 8 PHSE Days
Next week in school we will be recognising World Heart Day by delivering a series of age appropriate assemblies and tutor activities for students in Y7-11. The assembly and tutor activities will consider key issues relating to heart disease such as what heart disease is, heart disease prevalence, causes of […]
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COVID Update – Operating in a Local & National Context
The following COVID message was sent out to parents on Friday 18 September 2020: We wanted to contact you all after having had a COVID case in our school. It was inevitable, it will likely happen again, but I wanted to be clear on how we are responding to events […]
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Public Health England Advice to Schools
The recent re-opening of schools has seen school leaders learn to apply pandemic risk assessments – something missed from the training courses – and naturally lots of people have different opinions and understanding of how things should or should not operate. With our risk assessments we did what any sensible […]
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Year 7 Open Evenings 2020
The following joint message comes from each of the three Headteachers of the Lichfield secondary schools and relates to the Year 7 Open Evenings which were due to be staged in the coming weeks: On behalf of all three Lichfield secondary schools, we would like to share information with parents […]
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COVID Update – Responding to a COVID Case
Perhaps inevitably, as we watch cases across our region, we have had a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the Sixth Form student body of our school. Naturally, all of us will find this concerning but rest assured we are continuing to monitor the situation and are working closely with Public […]
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Food Menus for the Autumn Term
Our food offer has altered this term as we work around the new COVID lunch arrangements which see Years 8-9 having ‘First Lunch’, Y7 have their own lunch, and then Years 10-11 having ‘Second Lunch’. The food on offer has been designed to be minimum wrapping, grab-and-go, and we are […]
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Saturday & Holiday Schools
We have a long tradition of going the extra mile with our students and this includes extra, free sessions on a Saturday mornings and during the school holidays to ensure our students get that extra nudge to get them over their individual line. The Saturday sessions run between 9.30-11.30am. We […]
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Year 11 After-School ‘Catch-Up’ Boosters
We are focusing our ‘catch-up’ attention on those Year 11 students facing GCSE exams next summer after losing out on 14 school weeks during the lockdown. The following after-school sessions run each week and are targeted at specific students and groups: Week A: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday English Science […]
