News
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New Headteacher Appointment
Following the planned departure of our current Headteacher, our school has been through a rigorous interview process and have appointed a new Headteacher starting in January 2026. The successful candidate was Mark Drury. Mark has previously been a senior teacher at The Friary School, and has held senior positions in […]
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RONA Sailing Trip
Last term we have a cohort of Sixth Formers who took part in a RONA Sailing Trip – a project that seeks to: “Our mission is “to provide offshore sail training opportunities for young people and certain adults to acquire those attributes of a sailor, namely: a sense of responsibility, […]
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Year 11 Saturday Schools 2025-2026
Our Year 11 Saturday School programme sees students come into school between 9.00-11.00am on Saturdays to undertake focused revision work and put in the necessary extra miles to secure those great exam results our school keeps achieving with our students and families. The sessions are optional – unless we direct […]
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Key Dates for Autumn Half-Term 1
The following video gives you a flavour of what events are coming up over the first half-term of the 2025-2026 academic year. Click here for the video. Matt Allman, Headteacher said: “We know family life can be hectic so this quick-fire video will give you an idea on all that […]
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Break & Wet Break Reminders
We were disappointed to see Autumn weather this morning – particularly as we can see so many Summer smiles with our staff and students catching up after the holiday. When we have wet break we deter the students form going outside and getting soaked – we don’t want those new […]
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Welcome to the Autumn Term
The rain did not dampen down our excitement to welcome our students back and their smiles were only returned by our staff who were pleased to see them. Our opening day sees an extended tutor time so that handbooks, advice, changes, and reminders can be issued, then Period 2 the […]
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Friary School Site Works over Summer Break
With the support of our academy Trust, the Primitas Learning Partnership, we have managed to replace our end-of-life (and beyond) boiler – working with teams from Barkers and Jack Wolfe. The project is still seeing snagging work being completed at the start of the new term, and the new boiler […]
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National Acclaim for Friary Students on OCR Sports Studies
We were delighted to be contacted by the OCR Exam Board in reference to our OCR Cambridge National in Sports Studies course which is taken by our Year 10-11 students. The course always gets excellent results but we were still thrilled to be informed that three Year 11 students were […]
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School Year of the Environment
In a world of “Drill, Baby, Drill”, criticism of the ambition of UK Net Zero, and climate denial, we prefer to educate our students with the emphases articulated by Bob Brown, (1944- ), Australian Doctor, Politician & Environmentalist who said: “The future will be green or not at all.” From […]
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Senior 7 for 2025-2026
Our Senior 7 are the pinnacle of our school leadership model and represent the most senior student leaders in our Sixth Form and across the wider school. Indeed, many of the team will have held student leadership roles in their Houses lower down the school. After a highly competitive application […]
