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Making the Most of AI with Your Children
The reality for all of us with teenagers is that their world is going to be much more affected by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) than the world of those of us who can remember Spectrum 48k and Beta-Max videos. InternetMatters.Org have produced a great guide on AI entitled: […]
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Johnson House Week for St Giles Hospice
Another Johnson House Week has come and gone and what a fantastic House Week we’ve had! This week saw our first ever St Giles Skip-a-Thon where, as a House, we’ve skipped continuously throughout the week. We have been overwhelmed at the generosity (and the stamina!) of our students and their […]
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U15 Girls Hockey v Lichfield Cathedral School
As a warm up in preparation for an upcoming U18’s match, the U15 girls pencilled in a friendly against their local rivals Lichfield Cathedral. Initially the girls had an established and strong team but unfortunately a number of last minute drop-outs saw the team with limited substitutions and this was […]
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Year 7 Success in UK Bebras Computing Challenge
All of our Year 7 students recently participated in the UK Bebras Computing Challenge which is a national computing event. This year marked the first time that our students participated in the competition and their achievements were fantastic. The Bebras competition consists of challenging computational thinking problems that are aimed […]
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U13s Mixed Hockey Against King Edwards
The U13’s fought their way through a bitterly cold evening and took on King Edwards. We were able to take 3 teams due to such high interest in hockey at the Friary – and could even have had 4 teams had one or two external commitments not got in the […]
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School Christmas Dinner
We are offering our popular Christmas Dinner to students in our canteen on Thursday 14 December. The meal will include roast turkey, pigs in blankets, seasonable vegetables and a Christmas sponge dessert. There is also a vegetarian offer which is based around a quorn fillet. Elsewhere, there will be a […]
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Primitas Road Safety Advice
As a school we are a member of the Primitas Learning Partnership and as a group of schools we are keen to flag up a new campaign by Lichfield District Councill called ‘Be Bright & Be Seen’ which encourages pedestrians and cyclists to be bright and be seen so they […]
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Carol Concert at Lichfield Cathedral
The Friary Christmas Carol Concert kicked off the march towards Christmas with a busy programme played to a large gathering of students, parents and friends of the school at Lichfield Cathedral. The service was led by Revered Canon Gregory Platten (Canon Precentor – Liturgy, Music & Formation) and included a […]
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Staff Fund-Raiser for Alzheimer’s & Non-Uniform Day
On Friday 1 December it will be Non-Uniform Day for students and as well as being a fun experience it gives each student a chance to make a donation to their chosen House charity via ParentPay. Each House’s students chose a local House charity to support: Darwin House = The […]
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Taking An Apprenticeship
We were delighted to hear about the on-going success of a recent Year 11 departee, Olivia Thomas, who took on an apprenticeship with Busy Bees in Lichfield from September 2023. Olivia was a fantastic Friary student who achieved excellent grades – on average she was one above target in every […]
