News
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Y8 Netball Tournament
Year 8s last fixture of the year saw us face all local schools in the annual Netball tournament. Due to a clash with a football fixture, we opted to take a team made up with a mixture of Year 7s and Year 8s. We had 3 games ahead of us […]
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Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Schedule
We have an extra busy Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme running through as we have added the Gold Award to this year’s roster so that our students can take the scheme right through from the Bronze Award. The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is designed to challenge young people between […]
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Latest Hope Mentoring Support for Parents
As a school, we use the HOPE mentoring approach to assist our students who need support, guidance and assistance in negotiating the challenges and complexities of teenage life. We have a specialist lead in this approach in Fiona Evans, Student Support, though all of this team are well-trained in this […]
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Darwin House Week for The Max & George Trust
Last week saw students of Darwin House raising money for the Max and George Dog’s Trust. It was a big success! During the week, students took part in activities such as “Play Your Cards Right,” Bingo, Mario Cart and many more. We even had our teachers join in and dress […]
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Girls 7s Rugby
A group of seven girls from Years 8-10 headed to King Edwards school, where the annual Touch Rugby Tournament was being hosted for six teams. This was the second year that this tournament had been held and after the success of last year’s event the girls were very excited to […]
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Friary Student Nominated for Inspiration Youth Award
The Friary School are delighted to share that Eleanor Easton (Year 13) has been shortlisted for an Inspirational Youth Award, in the Inspirational Person of the Year category. The Inspirational Youth Awards seek to showcase the positive impact that incredible young people are driving in their communities. They also seek […]
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Sixth Form Interact Club Fund-Raising Quiz
Following the success of our Sixth Form-led football fundraiser win partnership with Lichfield Football Club, our Sixth Form student leaders staged a Sixth Form quiz after school to raise funds for their Interact Club charities. There were 80 Sixth Formers into around 15 teams and the rounds ranged from current […]
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Spiritual Garden Taking Shape
As a school we place a big emphasis on the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural) provision in our school and we are delighted to hold the top-rated SMSC Quality Mark after an external assessment of our curriculum. One of our areas for further development this year is the creation […]
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Ex-Friary Student Raising Funds for Muscular Dystrophy UK
There is lots going on in the community with ex-Friary students making a big difference and we wanted to share one example with you. Tom Adams (1999-2004), a former Friary student, and former Lichfield RFC player, will be embarking on what is a truly inspirational challenge on behalf of Muscular […]
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Dementia Friends
As part of the Year 11 Health & Social care course, students need to understand and learn about the illness and disease dementia. The classes made posters and fact sheets before the session to make sure they had some knowledge beforehand. The group also met with a representative from Dementia […]
