News
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Seward House Week
Each year sees our four Houses take centre stage for a week to celebrate their House and to raise funds for their chosen local charity – last week was the chance for Seward House and Midland Air Ambulance to shine. The Seward House Week closed in style this Friday lunchtime […]
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New Safeguarding Arrangements at Friary Grange Sports Centre
Both our school and Freedom Leisure, who run the provision at the community sports centre for Lichfield District Council, have been reviewing our safeguarding arrangements as part of our joint commitment to safeguard children on the school site. The new arrangements will see only sports centre members entering the sports […]
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Dining Improvements
This term has seen us take the catering in-house and we are confident that this will bring improvements to the quality, service and prices for those students who eat at school. The school was previously tied into a contract with Chartwells, a school catering company, and so the school had […]
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KS3 Interventions Programme 2018-2019
Many parents will be well aware of the extensive support programme we have in place for students in years 10-13. This includes extensive revision materials, after-school boosters, Saturday Schools, Holiday Schools and more besides. This year we are seeking to further develop our Year7-9 students by staging targeted sessions that […]
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Henry Chadwick & Willows Primary Go Global
Students from Henry Chadwick and Willows Primary Schools impressed everyone when they dropped in to take part in our European Week of Languages celebrations as they worked in the French, Drama and Music Departments The sessions are part of our commitment to give all Year 5 and 6 students – […]
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Y13 Debating Competition – Brexit
This week saw the first debating competition of 2018/19 with our Year 13 students getting stuck in on the hot topic of Brexit. Garrick took on Johnson and Seward fought against Darwin for the chance to get some vital points on the board at this early stage of the academic […]
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Year 11 – The Year Ahead…
This is a big year for our Year 11 and we have mapped out a whole series of sessions, mock exams and boosters to help them peak for the Summer 2019 exams. There are just 26 weeks till the formal GCSE exams begin but there are also a number of […]
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Open Evening Video – This is The Friary
We have been inundated with requests to see the video production from last night’s Open Evening which gives an idea of what it is like to come to our school from the arrival at the front gates in Year 7 to the opening the brown envelopes containing the exam results […]
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Open Evening – Thursday 27th September
The Friary School’s Open Evening starts at 6.00pm on Thursday 27th September and we are looking forward to meeting some fantastic Year 6s who will be weighing up which secondary school will be best for them. The event is usually very well attended and though extensive car parking will be […]
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Looking to Summer 2021
Parents of older students will be well aware of our extensive after-school booster programme and our popular Saturday School sessions which attract well over 100 students each weekend as the final exams loom. Even so, as we continue to improve our school, we are now looking to get our younger […]
