News
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Parent Online Safety Summer Newsletter
Our on-going support for parents to keep them up-to-date with new things to look out for in supporting your child in negotiating the online world is now released and available for your perusal. Our school places a great emphasis on online safety and holds the nationally recognised Online 360 Safe […]
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Year 7 House Debating Competition
‘It is our moral responsibility to welcome refugees to this country’ was the complex and controversial topic our Year 7s had to grapple with in their recent debating competition, and they most certainly did not disappoint. Even though it was the first time they had participated in the debating competition, […]
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Working with BBC Bitesize
We again welcomed BBC Bitesize into our school as they dropped in to undertake some product testing. The visits allow our students to interact with a fantastic organisation and real specialists and our staff benefit from new ideas, different ways of thinking and alternative approaches. Matt Allman, Headteacher, said: “We […]
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Y10 Geography Field Trip to Cotton Dell
The GCSE Geography course contains a key component where students need to undertake field visits where they explore and investigate an environment and then use their learning to form their exam answers in the Summer of Year 11. Our Year 10s headed to Cotton Dell in Staffordshire in order to […]
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U15 County Tennis Success
Following our Under 13s success, it was the turn of our Under 15s, which was made up of two boys doubles and one girl’s pair, again kindly hosted by Erasmus Darwin Academy. Madeline Williams and Ava Williams were our only girls’ doubles for this tournment, but couldn’t be any better […]
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GXO Logistics Employer Experience
A group of Year 9 students visited GXO Logistics, Fradley Park in Lichfield. The employer encounter aimed to highlight the many processes that happen each day in the business and to identify the many careers and career pathway options available which consist of training programmes, apprenticeships and employment. Students were […]
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Summer Music Festivals
Friary students were performing at music festivals over the weekend as they took their talents on the road before they head to our very own Summer Sizzler on Thursday 13 July A range of acts were at The Fuse Festival in Lichfield (see ‘The Vengeance’ in the photo), whilst a […]
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School Swimming Gala Champions
We know that Lichfield Swimming Club are a fantastic local training club so with a school full of talent we took up a place in the annual regional swimming gala which was staged at Cheslyn Hay School. We took 28 students from Years 7-10 to represent the school and there […]
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Year 8 Girls Rounders Success
Our Year 8 Rounders team travelled too Nether Stowe this week for a friendly match to finish off the year. Having won the toss, we elected to field first, giving us the opportunity to see how good the opposition were at batting and a target for us to attack. The […]
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National Insect Week
As part of our Focus Week we turned our attention to National Insect Week as we encouraged out students to reflect on the world and climate around them and to understand the integral role insects play in our current day-to-day life, as well as how things might change moving forward. […]
