News
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Artsmark Success
The Friary School has long-held a commitment to the arts, despite the government funding for specialist status in this area stopping over eight years ago. Of course, the UK is a real driver in the creative industries, and though our academic results are in the Top 10 in the county, […]
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Crisp Packet Recycling
Young people seem more aware than ever of the importance of recycling and protecting our environment and the Geography Department-led scheme to recycle crisp packets has certainly done its bit to this end. We have now recycled over 4,000 packets since March and this has helped Humanity Unites (Twitter -@Humanity_Unites) […]
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Y10 Boys Visit Birmingham University
Friary students sampled university life with a visit to the prestigious University of Birmingham. Twenty Year 10 students took part in a campus visit which included a tour, meeting undergraduate students and asking them about their routes to university, and a myth-busting presentation on finances and entry requirements. The day […]
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Y8 Visit to The National Memorial Arboretum
The History Department visited the National Memorial Arboretum for the ‘Remember Together’ Youth Festival with 50 Y8 pupils who have shown high levels of achievement and/or high levels of effort in their studies. This is an event organised by the NMA and The British Legion. The programme for the day […]
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Student Travel on Arriva Buses
We received the following guidance from Arriva on bus travel for 2019-2020 and wanted to share it with you before you plan to buy your saver tickets for the next school year: Dear Parents and Guardians, Does your child travel to school by bus? If so, we’ve got the perfect […]
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Rewards Day
Each year we stage our Rewards Day which celebrates the winning House in the House Cup and those students who achieve the most House points. The House points can be earned by students for hard work, effort and contributions to school life so everyone has a chance to be part […]
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End of Summer Term Arrangements
The school will be closing early on the final day of term, Friday 19 July, in order to allow for room clearance for the continued refurbishment that we have pursued in our summer holidays in terms of improving the school site. This means the school will close at 12.00pm. Students […]
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Year 9 Rounders Tournament
The year 9 rounders team played a tournament Tuesday night after school and the girls played fantastically they won four out of their five games coming second overall. The Year 9s built on the success of other year teams and came out as close runners up. Trudy Simkiss, PE teacher […]
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Student Librarian Trip to Birmingham
Our Student Librarians travelled to Peters Booksellers in Birmingham to spend the generous parental donations through our ‘Support Your School’ fundraising scheme. The Student Librarians work in the library each day, help run things and work with their fellow students on homework, etc. Those on the trip included: Meg Mathias […]
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Rotary Cars in the Park 2019
As part of our on-going partnership through our Interact Club with the Lichfield St Chad Rotary, Friary Sixth Form students volunteered to support the annual ‘Cars in the Park’ event in Lichfield. The event sees a wide range of classic and vintage cars, as well as commercial, military, PSV and […]
