News
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Staffordshire Youth Parliament
Zagham Farhan, Member of Youth Parliament for Staffordshire, met with the Friary Student Council this week to talk about his role, his experience of speaking in the House of Commons, and discussed the priorities for the young people of Staffordshire with the Council members. The conversation turned to shared issues including the […]
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Netball Stars Battle Kingsmead
Last week saw the Year 8 & 10 netball teams play against Kingsmead School – one of the bigger and more talented local rivals. Our Year 8 team scored a strong 13-3 victory and in a high-scoring game the Year 10s lost out 17-9. Trudy Simkiss, PE teacher and team […]
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Y8 Netball Defeat Codsall
The Year 8 netball team played against Codsall Middle School last Wednesday evening and took home an 11-8 victory. It was a very challenging match and the girls played brilliantly. They worked hard throughout the game and displayed excellent team work and individual skills. Elli Delaney was awarded ‘Player of the […]
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Hands Up for Respect
We are keen to encourage our students to reflect on their responsibilities in the world when dealing with others and a key part of this is getting students to sign up and recognise their duties towards those around them. It was this thinking that two years ago brought our anti-bullying […]
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Holocaust Memorial Week
Our school is proud to retain Holocaust Beacon School Status which means we have specialist teachers on the topic and do work in the community to push the message and lessons of the Holocaust. This status means that our Holocaust Memorial Focus Week is an important one to the school […]
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Y7 French After-School Booster
As part of our KS3 Interventions programme, a group of Year 7s stayed on for an after-school booster designed to encourage their language skills and use practical and fun activities to communicate vocabulary, dialogue and grammar. The activities involved dressing up, twister and card games and students rotated around the […]
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Saturday School Onto Full Roll…
Our Saturday School programme began as far back as October but as we enter the final PPE (mock) season and head towards the Summer exams then Saturday School will be a weekly occurrence. The sessions over the next few weeks will very much target those subjects with mock / PPE exams […]
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House Points: Students find their tasty reward
Over a hundred Friary students received a free ice cream for their hard work and achievement during the last half-term. Most of the students were from Johnson House, who led the way in House Points during the run up to Christmas. Oliver Tromans, in 8J1, said “It’s the most delicious […]
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Academy Conversion Consultation
The Governing Bodies of three schools – The Friary School, Queen’s Croft High School and Henry Chadwick Primary School – have been discussing how our schools might work in closer partnership to provide mutual support, challenge and benefits for our schools. The Governing Bodies share the ambition for their schools […]
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Y8 History Masterclasses
Twenty-eight top Year 8 historians have been taking part in after-school masterclasses designed to stretch and challenge them to reach towards the Grades 8s and 9s in Summer 2022. The sessions are part of our KS3 Interventions programme which provides targeted booster and consolidation work to keep students on track […]
