News
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What are The Friary School’s Student Leadership Roles?
The Friary School believes that ‘student voice’ needs to be at the heart of the school and we have a responsibility to allow students to thrive in speaking up, speaking out and helping our school become an ‘outstanding’ one. Students can ‘voice’ their views in a range of contexts; whether […]
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Making A Splash in Swimming Lessons
Amidst all of the furore surrounding the council’s decision-making over the Friary Grange Sports Centre, we have continued to plan our swimming provision in just the same way as last year, and the year before, and so on. Hopefully, it will continue next year as well. Secondary schools have no […]
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Greywood Multi-Schools Trust
Greywood Multi-Schools Trust opened its doors on Monday 2nd September 2019. The Friary School, Queen’s Croft High School and Henry Chadwick Primary School are the founder members of the Trust. The formal opening was well-attended by students, school and Trust leaders and local dignitaries, including Lichfield Mayor – Deb Bacon, […]
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Rocky Road Parent Group
Following interest from parents, we would like to flag up the Rocky Road Parent Group which is a newly developed local group for parents and carers. Sessions are parent-led, professionally supported and free – they are then followed by tea, cake, and time for questions. The first themes are ‘The […]
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What do Y11 Exam Results tell us about Attendance ?
As a school we place a great emphasis on attendance and in the last 4 years, as attendance has improved, so have exam results. Students get on average 6 grades better than they did in Summer 2016, and though attendance is not the only reason, it certainly plays a big […]
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Return to School Arrangements – Wednesday 4 September
Students return to school on Wednesday 4 September and we will have a slightly staggered start to help our new Year 7s to settle into their new routine. 8.40am Year 7 students should report to the theatre for an 8.45am start. 10.00am Year 8-11 students should report to their new […]
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Y11 Exam Results – Summer 2019
The Friary School’s Year 11 students have produced outstanding exam results this summer and staff were thrilled knowing there will be homes across Lichfield and the local district celebrating fantastic individual successes after the year’s hard work reaped great rewards. Headline measurements have improved across the board with joint English […]
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The Red Box Project
We were delighted to received news from Nic Jones, the Red Box Co-Ordinator for Lichfield, to say that the government had announced that they plan to extend their offering of free menstrual products to include primary schools, as well as secondary schools and colleges. That means all schools and colleges […]
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Sports Day
The Friary’s Sports Day took place on Wednesday with pupils from Years 7 – 10 taking part in a variety of events ranging from the tug-of-war to the 100m. Our congratulations must go to Tommy Roberts who broke the Year 7 boys 200m record with a time of 26.09 seconds. […]
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Sixth Form Work Experience Placements
The final week of the Summer Term saw Year 12 students engage in work placements which stretched across the country and even overseas. The work experience at this stage gives students the opportunity for higher quality placements, can be tied into preferred career and skill routes, and even dovetail into […]
