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The Friary Helps the National Arboretum towards World Record
The National Arboretum’s world record attempt to produce a Christmas Card with the most amount of signatures in came to The Friary and hundreds of our students and staff
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GKN Engineering Inspiring Y10 STEM Students at The Friary
Undoubtedly, the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) are excellent subjects to develop in school and take forward into a future career. Indeed, much of
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Praise Pours in for ‘Billy Elliot’
The recent performances of ‘Billy Elliot’ were a real high for the cast, directing team and school, but it has also been fantastic to hear how it has been a real high for
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100% Attendance at Celebration Breakfast with Mr Rose
As part of our campaign ‘Attendance Matters’, ‘Breakfast with Bagels’ (and Mr Rose) took in the 100% attendees this week so congratulations, hot drinks and toast were
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Extended Project On Track
The Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) is a Sixth Form qualification which is the equivalent to half an-A-Level and is hugely respected by top universities. The EPQ sees students
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Attendance Matters - Most Improvers
As part of our campaign to push up attendance to outstanding levels, 30 students who had shown the biggest improvement over the course of this term won the highly prized opportunity
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Y8 & Y10 Netball Matches at Kingsmead Bring Mixed Results
The Friary & Kingsmead shared the spoils in some high quality netball matches with Y10 losing out 11-7 but Y8 dominating to win 8-2. The Y10 match ebbed-and-flowed with both
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Christmas Tree Festival & Angel Project
The Friary School are fully on board with Lichfield Cathedral’s ‘Christmas Tree Festival’ and are producing hundreds of angels to help fill our city’s cathedral with the
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