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Y9 Girls Rounders Verses Abbotsholme
Despite a very narrow defeat, the Friary girls were outstanding against Abbotsholme who fielded several older girls in their team for practise purposes. The Friary fought hard both fielding and batting to finish the match 17-17½ – unfortunately being beaten in the last innings. The team batted exceptionally well achieving […]
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Y7 Debating Competition
For the final round of debating competitions, it was the turn of our Y7 students to go head-to-head. As our whole-school focus week is refugees, the topic was as challenging as any that have come up so far: ‘Britain has a responsibility to take in more refugees’. The students argued […]
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PTA Summer Raffle 2018!
Each year our PTA work flat out to raise vital funds for the school and we are now making a huge push to reach our end of year target of £15,000. The PTA is made up of an enthusiastic group of parents and staff who meet throughout the year to […]
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Runners-Up in Y7 District Girls Rounders Tournament
The Y7 Rounders team played fantastically well last night when coming second in the district championship. They lost in the final by just half a rounder and were only fractionally away from snatching an outright win. They came in to their own in the semi-final and final and played exceptionally […]
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Corporate Support for Hospitality & Catering Department
The latest in a long line of imaginative and generous parental support has come to fruition with the donation of a raft of high-quality kitchen equipment to our Food classrooms that will upgrade the experience of every student in the school. The Food rooms are hugely popular with students whether […]
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Y8 District Rounders Tournament
Following their success the day before against Lichfield Cathedral School, the Friary team were well informed of what they needed to do in order to go far in the tournament and were also prepared for a rematch after their recent close encounter. The Y8 team played with a different formation and […]
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Y7 & Y8 Girls Rounders v Lichfield Cathedral School
The Year 7 and Year 8 rounders teams warmed up nicely in the run up to their competitive tournaments this week with a victory against Lichfield Cathedral School. The Year 7’s had an astonishing result winning 21-4 with high scores from Maddy Nash, Ffion Wynne, Emily Beddow and Elli Delaney. […]
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Athletics Championships Final – Successes Across Years 7-9
Well done to all Year 7, 8 and 9 boys and girls who competed at Aldersley Stadium last Thursday the 7th of June. It was a very successful afternoon for The Friary School at this summer term’s final event of the Athletics Championships with our athletes winning several events throughout […]
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‘Bugsy Malone’ On Tour
The cast of ‘Bugsy Malone’ took time out of their final night preparations to visit the Curborough Community Centre to offer songs, music and snapshots from the performance to the local community group and to gossip about school life and the show in particular. The students and staff thoroughly enjoyed […]
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Sports Day Helpers at Henry Chadwick
Y7 & Y8 students from The Friary went back to their former primary school, Henry Chadwick, in Hill Ridware, to help out at their Sports Day. The six students helped to run events and to work with their former peers (as well put their younger siblings in their place) and […]
