News
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Dementia Support at The Spires Care Home
As part of our on-going partnership with the wonderful residents and staff at The Spires Care Home, more of our students got involved by visiting the residents and helping with a Dementia Book club. Our students listened to residents read, while guiding them if they needed help, and took part […]
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Year 10 Boys Reach Cup Semi-Final
Friary won 4-1 against Nether Stowe to go through to a cup semi final tie with King Edwards. Our Year 10 team started bright and created some good chances. Friary went 1-0 up when captain Josh Evans slotted the ball home after 10 minutes. However, the team were unable to […]
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The Friary Pen – School Ezine
‘The Friary Pen’ is the latest offering for our students in terms of a literary extra-curricular activity and offers an online Ezine (an online magazine) for students to write for and publish on our website. The project offers workshops and industry experience of writing, creating, and publishing. Alongside the workshops […]
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School Update – Summer Term Ahead – April 2023
The following message went out to all parents on Wednesday 19 April Welcome back after Easter – we hope you got some sort of break – and we are now headlong back into the Summer Term. Amongst other things, we have more strikes on the horizon so we particularly wanted […]
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Easter Visit to The Spires Care Home
During the Easter Break Friary students and staff were busy at The Spires Care Home working with residents to support Easter craft work and to help make Easter bonnets. The project is part of our long-running Health & Social Care course partnership with The Spires and continues to develop our […]
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Year 11 Revision Materials
The Year 11 formal exams start 18 schools days after the return from the Easter Break and we know that many students will have used the holiday to get their revision going. Of course, ability always plays a part in exams, but work ethic takes you a long, long way […]
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House Debating Competition
The Easter Term saw three more rounds of our House Debating Competition role through and the battle for the annual trophy is heading towards a final conclusion up with just one round to go. Earlier this term, our Year 10 students tackled the debate of ‘Religion causes more conflict that […]
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Sixth Form Update – March 2023
This has been yet another super busy term in which so many of the students have wowed us with their dedication to their studies, can do attitude and contributions to the wider life of the school and community. Whether that be house debates, the school show, volunteering or attending Interact […]
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Girls Rugby
Friary girls took part in their first rugby tournament as students from Years 7-10 took part in a tag rugby tournament. The tournament was played in a 7s format and our girls fought hard to compete against each opposition. The first match was up against King Edwards A Team and […]
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Encore ‘Other Worlds’ Stage Show
Our annual variety show took in the theme of ‘Other Worlds’ – ranging from hobbits to a galaxy far, faraway’ – and students stretching from Year 7 to Year 13 took to the stage to offer up a variety of performances for two packed audiences. The performances ranged from dance […]
