News
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Vaccinations for Spring 2023
As we move into the Spring Term, the NHS Schools Immunisation schedule starts to kick in to action, so we just wanted to flag up key dates for your diaries. Parents/Careers of Years 7,8 and 9 students will have received a letter on Edulink at the end of last term […]
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All GCSE, A-Level & Vocational Certificates Available
Those students who sat their final exams in Summer 2022 have been notified via letter that their certificates are available for collection at our school. This delay is related to the time the Exam Boards spend collating their certificates and getting them put to schools. The certificates cannot be posted […]
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Sixth Form Geography Inter-School Competition
The Friary School hosted Lichfield’s first ever Sixth Form Geography Inter-School Competition. Six teams from The Friary School, King Edward VI School and Erasmus Darwin Academy competed to find ‘Ways to Save the Planet’. Each team researched different strategies. They chose what they considered to be the best strategy, which […]
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PTFA Lichfield Round Table Santa Run
The Friary PTFA continued to go the extra mile for the school as they took on the Lichfield Round Table Santa Run slot on World Cup Final night with Shining Stars UK – a local charity who provide a safe environment for adults with disabilities to go to nightclubs, the […]
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Health & Social Care Tee Up Revision
Our Health & Social Care Department is hugely popular with students and gets fantastic results – one of the main reasons for this is that they come up with imaginary ways to bring lessons to life. As Year 13s head towards their final exam, a novel approach to revision saw […]
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Christmas Dinner Celebration
Spreading our own very special brand of festive cheer, it was Christmas Dinner Day in the canteen this week. Our dedicated canteen staff were in at the crack of dawn to start prepping veg, cooking turkey and baking cakes ready for the busiest lunchtime of the year. Students were treated […]
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Dyslexia Friendly Status
This week we received confirmation that we are a ‘Dyslexia Friendly’ school. The British Dyslexia Association “Dyslexia Friendly” Quality Mark provides a framework for schools to improve their understanding of dyslexia and to develop the strategies we put in place to support the achievement and engagement of dyslexic learners. The […]
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Attendance Celebration
Our regular attendance rewards scheme saw hundreds of students get a breakfast treat of bagels and hot chocolates (with cream and marshmallows). All evidence shows that attendance at school is the number one factor behind good exam results and this means that we place a high emphasis on attendance. Those […]
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Henry Chadwick Primary School Visit DT Department
Year 5 & 6 students from Henry Chadwick Primary School visited our DT Department to use the workshop facilities in the spirit of Christmas. The students spent a morning making Christmas Tree decorations – right from designing on the computer and using the laser printer, before going on to use […]
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Shoe Box Appeal via Interact Club
Our Sixth Form Interact Club is a fund-raising club, working in partnership with Lichfield St Chad Rotary Cub, and through each school year the student leaders support and facilitate the raising of funds and contributing to project which serve our local community. The most recent project was our Shoebox Appeal […]
