News
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Sixth Form Study Leave – Summer 2019
Our Sixth Form Study Leave arrangements are now in place and will see both Year 12 and Year 13 have formal time to revise and prepare for their exams. Year 12 – Summer Mock Exams: Year 12 students will have study leave from Tuesday 30th April to Friday 3rd May. Lessons will resume on Tuesday 7th May. Year […]
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House Points Earn Students Tasty Reward
Over a hundred Friary students received a free ice cream on 15th March for their hard work and achievement during the last half-term. Many of the students were from Seward House, who led the way in House Points in the half-term from January. Lucy Richardson, in Year 8, said: “It’s nice to have […]
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Friary Beat Bogey Team Erasmus Darwin Academy
The Year 8 Friary football team showed tremendous fight and determination to run out 5-2 winners against a strong EDA side last night. It was a stop-start game with the wind and a bobbly pitch putting a stop to any football played. In the first half, Friary soaked up a […]
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Geography Department Leads Environmental Charge
The Geography Department have paired up with the Burton based charity, ‘Humanity Unites’, who provide support for homeless people and families. They have taken an environmental approach as the charity is collecting crisps packets which can be recycled and raise money of the project. Matt Allman, Headteacher, said: “Our students […]
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World Book Day 2019
World Book Day is the world’s biggest campaign to provide every child and young person in the country with a book of their own and is a celebration of the books and stories that inspire and engage children across the world. This year at the Friary School the School Librarian, […]
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Henry Chadwick Investigates…
Our Science Department dropped into Henry Chadwick Primary School to work on a CSI investigation designed to develop the top police detectives of the 2030s. The project saw the analysis of hair samples, fingerprints and other evidence to try and work out who put the Headteacher’s keys into the jelly […]
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Bridge Builders Feedback on Y10 Employability Interviews
Y10 students attracted high praise from the Bridge Builders team who came in to provide interview experience for every Y10 student. Volunteers – co-ordinated by Rick Hill – came in for two sessions and interviewed over 190 students and the interviewees’ feedback was very wholly positive: “It influenced me to […]
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Y8 Boys Football Breeze into Round 2
The Year 8 boys produced a dominant display v Cannock Chase in the first round of the Cannock & District Cup. In tough conditions, Friary made all the early running and forced Cannock Chase to defend deep. Pressure told and the Friary broke the deadlock after 10 minutes with a […]
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National Careers Week
This week saw our biggest and best National Careers Week to date. The whole-school focus week saw a wealth of experienced presenters from a range of industries visit assemblies to give our students a flavour of a range of careers. There were also more visitors and activities around the school […]
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Astrophotography – Greg Bilinski
Greg Bilinski (Y11) has developed an expertise in astrophotography and using a telescope and a mobile phone he has managed to take some incredible photographs of space. The photographs include the Orion Nebula (photograph with article) which is one of the brightest nebulae in the sky, one of the nearest […]
