25 May 2023
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Year 8 pupil dances her way to Germany for competition

Year 8 Keira danced on the European stage at a championship event in Germany.

12 May 2023
Image of Mrs Elliott's cool reader's club - Taylor

Mrs Elliott's cool reader's club - Taylor

These are our reading stars put forward by their English teacher. We interview them about their current book, what they like reading and what they like to do when they’re not reading. Introducing Taylor..

11 May 2023
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Year 8 research local WW1 history for competition

Year 8 pupils were challenged to produce a piece of research explaining how their local area was affected by World War 1.

2 May 2023
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Year 7 & 8 pupils are leading the way

‘Resilient,’ ‘hard working’, ‘helpful’ and a ‘natural leader’ – these are just a few of the descriptions given by Priory teachers to our new group of Lead Learners.

27 April 2023
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Year 8 pupil is leading the way in community centre projects

Priory pupil Taejun is helping to change the face of The Foxton Youth and Community Centre by leading on a £2m funding bid.

27 January 2023
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Year 8 Are Seeing Eye To Eye in Design Tech

Who thought that Textiles could be so much fun!

6 January 2023
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Year 7 & 8 pupils are leading the way

Teachers nominated Lead Learners from Years 7 and 8 not necessarily for their academic achievements but primarily for their resilience, behaviour and helpfulness.

7 December 2022
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Earth shattering time for Year 8 Geography

Mrs Kursitis' Year 8 classes have been creating earthquake proof buildings this week.

14 November 2022
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Year 8 have designs on their books for competition

Year 8 Chloe R was 'puntastic' as she won our annual Design a Bookmark competition!

18 July 2022
Image of Year 8 girls lock pupils into the music room

Year 8 girls lock pupils into the music room

The girls worked together to come up with an escape room challenge and tasked the rest of the year group and younger pupils to get their lateral thinking caps on.

17 June 2022
Image of Mrs Cowell's Cookery Club - Year 8 World Tapas Day

Mrs Cowell's Cookery Club - Year 8 World Tapas Day

After school on Thursday, Mrs Cowell invited Year 8 pupils to join her for her World Tapas Day cookery club.

17 June 2022
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Top Year 7 & 8 Pupils Take On National Challenge

Year 8 Daniel M was ‘Best in School’ at the recent Junior Mathematical Challenge (UKMT) as he collected a Gold Award.

7 June 2022
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Year 8 Cookery Club - 16 June

Mrs Cowell will be running her next Creative Cookery workshop for Year 8 on 16 June where you’ll be celebrating World Tapas Day!

3 May 2022
Image of Mrs Gidden's cool reader's club - Ethan

Mrs Gidden's cool reader's club - Ethan

These are our reading stars put forward by their English teacher. We interview them about their current book, what they like reading and what they like to do when they’re not reading. Introducing Ethan...

31 March 2022
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When English and History collide to make great impact - part 2

The History and English Departments are working together again and it’s a subject that has got pupils gripped – a serial killer.

30 March 2022
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Year 8 join 3D printer workshop

Sixty lucky Year 8 pupils have been selected by Head of ICT and Computer Science to take part in an exciting #InspiringLancashire Project, funded by BAE Systems.

30 March 2022
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Year 8 do history their own way

Year 8 pupils have been tasked with researching and creating a presentation on whatever part of history interests them.

11 March 2022
Image of Year 8 South Ribble Football tournament winners

Year 8 South Ribble Football tournament winners

The Year 8 girls team took part in a South Ribble football tournament at Balshaw's High School, and won!

7 March 2022
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South Ribble Indoor Athletics

Earlier this week, Priory took part in the South Ribble Indoor Athletics competition for Year 7 & 8 pupils.

1 March 2022
Image of Through the key hole... Year 8 Languages

Through the key hole... Year 8 Languages

This week in French, Year 8 have been learning about directions.

10 February 2022
Image of Year 8 Cookery Club celebrate National Pizza Day

Year 8 Cookery Club celebrate National Pizza Day

Year 8 got a pizza the action when they attended Mrs Cowell's Creative Cookery Club.

10 February 2022
Image of Mrs Gidden's cool reader's club - Layla

Mrs Gidden's cool reader's club - Layla

These are our reading stars put forward by their English teacher. We interview them about their current book, what they like reading and what they like to do when they’re not reading. Introducing Layla...

10 February 2022
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ICT Goes 3D and Needs Pupil Help!

The ICT & Computing Department has been gifted with a 3D printer...

27 January 2022
Image of Oliver is making his mark as a squash player

Oliver is making his mark as a squash player

Last week we met up with five of our sporting stars whose dedication and hard slog is getting the results they deserve. Here's Oliver's story..

30 November 2021
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December means advent calendars

The start of December means advent calendars. Chocolate, sweets, and... science?! That's right!

17 November 2021
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Science classes turn green!

Miss Nouraghaeii's Year 8 and 10 science classes have become Supersized Climate Heroes and have been awarded a Blue Peter Climate Heroes green badge!

15 November 2021
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Oliver boasts his Lancashire call up

Last weekend Year 8 Oliver represented Lancashire in the Inter-counties squash competition.

10 November 2021
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7-a-side girls football

Last night Year 7 and 8 girls played in a 7-a-side football competition at Balshaws’ High School.

1 November 2021
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Year 8 book the trend for competition

The year group were set a creative challenge which will also prove useful for pupils' Accelerated Reading (AR) sessions.

21 September 2021
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Year 8 bookmark competition is back

It's Bookmark Competition time again for Year 8. This year your theme is 'Everybody's Reading'.

16 July 2021
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Much Ado about competition winners

There was certainly Much Ado About Something as Year 8s set to work on bringing a Shakespeare classic into the modern era.

17 June 2021
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Year 8 have Much Ado about book cover competition

Year 8 call upon their creative skills as they are challenged to design a modern, contemporary book cover for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.