School Summary

Friars Academy


Boys: 103
Girls: 45
Total Pupils: 148
Opened: 01-11-2013
Ofsted: Outstanding
Headteacher: Daniel Gay
Friars Academy
Friars Close
Wellingborough
Northamptonshire
NN8 2LA
Telephone: 01933304950
Website: http://www.friarsacademy.org

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I like to think everyone I have achieved since I left was all thanks to them.\nThe friends I maid here I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m still in touch with today.\nCrazy to think what I was like when I started at this school to what I was when I left to what I am now.\nI am definitely a better person with a better quality of life compared to if I was at mainstream school.\nI couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t read much when I started here in 2009 but they helped me through that.\nSometimes I think my relationship with students I like to think we help each other and students success story helped and inspired to go out there go after my goals to be more independent.\nI think if it wasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t for Friars I has drowned in life it would have so hard.\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve overcome most of those problems and now I have a job earning about \u00c2\u00a3500 a month so my life is turning out really thanks to this place.\nI can go on and on about great people I meet here and all the memories I have from this as if it weren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t 5 mines since I was in year eleven.\nI came as child and left a young man and now I am a man.\nIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s crazy to think about.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"It will be ten years this year since I left Friars school. 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