News
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Staff Charity Elf Day for The Alzheimer’s Society
The staff’s chosen charity for the year – the Alzheimer’s Society – benefited from our fun Elf Day which saw a fund-raisng total of £300 for the organisation. Amidst staff within various degrees of elf-ness on them, there were also a number of prize-winners who contributed donations. Ethan Roberts (8S2) […]
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Friary Christmas Tree at Lichfield Cathedral
The Lichfield Christmas Tree Festival will be running through until the New Year and again our school has sponsored a tree to contributing to the project and to raise funds for the cathedral’s upkeep. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite tree and all proceeds raised will go […]
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Careers in Construction
As part of our raising aspirations programme today our Sixth Form students were visited by Sonia Short (CIOB) and alumni student Gemma Writer (MCIOB) (photo left with our Careers Co-Ordinator Faye Bullock) to look at careers in the construction industry and break down stereotypical barriers. Gemma who left The Friary […]
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Vote Libbie Joyce (Y11) in International Awards
One of our students – Libbie Joyce (Y11) – is up for an OCR Award and you can vote for one of our city’s own to receive an international awards. Libbie competes in World Obstacle Course Racing competitions across the world. They are really tough endurance events and she is […]
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U15s Girls Football
Our Under 15s girls football team – made up of Year 9s and 10s – played their first league game against Nether Stowe. As it was their first game together, they found it hard to find a rhythm as a team to begin with, but they soon persevered and got […]
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Year 11 Debating Competition – ‘Men Remain The Privileged Gender in British Society’
Our House Debating Competition topics are deliberately set to challenge and generate lots of ideas, and this week’s Year 11 debate was no different. Teams from the four Houses debated the topic, ‘Men remain the privileged gender in British society’, as part of our Focus Week on International Men’s Day. […]
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Year 7 Football – 11-4 Victory over Cardinal Griffin
The match saw a great attacking game with plenty of excellent goals and all students working hard to get through to the next round of the cup. Friary started brightly and quickly took a 4-goal lead after 15 minutes through some well worked team goals. However, Cardinal Griffin reacted well […]
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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 […]
