News
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Year 11 Leavers Assembly
We were thrilled to welcome back our Year 11s to celebrate their end of compulsory schooling in our Leavers Assembly – there are so many of them that we are incredibly proud of so seeing them was a real boost for everyone. The assembly included a series of embarrassing photos, […]
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Healthy Eating Week
Last week saw our Healthy Eating Week as we tied into the British Nutrition Foundation’s national Healthy Eating Week dedicated to encourage organisations across the UK (including workplaces, universities, and schools) to focus on healthy eating and drinking, and physical activity, and celebrate healthy living. The week saw special tutor […]
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Y6 Transition Days
The Friary School was a buzz of excitement last week when we were invaded by 216 Year 6s who are soon to be our Year 7s. The Year 6s had a fun-packed two days designed to get them used to the school, used to their peers and used to learning […]
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Careers with Geography
Jo Ward, Principle Transport Planner at Waterman in Nottingham, visited school to talk to the year 12 Geographers. She explained how her job considers questions like how do people get to the places they need to get to, why do we always divert back to cars and how can we […]
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Our School Dog
Friary students well know that animals play a big part in school life with our annual Pet Week very much a highlight and the last three years have ranged from ferrets to snakes, tortoises to horses, kestrels to meerkats. The message has been very much about care, responsibility and respect. […]
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Year 13 Art Exhibition
The Year 13 Art Exhibition showcased students work which explored a wide variety of themes – ranging from a variety of large scale pieces to preliminary sketchbooks. The students took their own lead stimuli and these included: Megan Crowther – Street Photography, Portraiture & Identity. William Smith – Architecture, Structures […]
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Duke of Edinburgh Awards Presentation
The Friary School staged a presentation evening to present pupils with their Duke of Edinburgh Award. This year 28 pupils took on the award and they have been working hard to complete the award in time for the presentation evening this year. Rob Foster, Operations Officer – Staffordshire and Derbyshire […]
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Keeping an Eye on Year 8 Science Boosters
The Year 7 – 9 targeted boosters have been running throughout the year and, now the Year 11 & 13 exams are drawing to a close, they are gradually re-emerging. Today saw Year 8 students take centre stage and as part of revising the structure of the eye, studies got […]
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Careers Guidance – Local Labour Market Information
We place a great emphasis on our Careers & Aspiration Guidance in the school and many students and parents will already have taken part in a wide range of activities; ranging from Employability Workshops to Raising Aspiration Evenings, university visits to UCAS guidance, or apprenticeship workshops to targeted job talks. […]
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Support Your School – Fund-Raising Scheme
More and more schools are taking part in the Support Your School Fund-Raisjng Scheme and we are a the point where we are doing the same. We would like to raise funds to enable our Student Librarians to help choose some new fiction titles for our library. We want all […]
