Welcome to the Friars Primary Foundation School website. We hope that you will find it informative, useful and entertaining. If you are considering sending your child to Friars it will help give you a flavour of what we are all about. If your child is already a pupil at Friars we hope that it will give you plenty of up to date information about what is going on in the school.
Friars is a vibrant multi cultural one form entry primary school located in the Borough and Bankside ward of the London Borough of Southwark. We have a long history of high achievement and enrichment and we aim to make every child’s time with us as valuable as possible.
We employ a group of talented and committed staff all of whom put the safeguarding and welfare of our children first and all of whom are thoroughly vetted to ensure they are suitably qualified and appropriate to work with children.
Welcome to our brand new video learning centre. Click below to start viewing…
From the 15th to the 19th October we had an action packed International week at Friars. Monday 15th – Stefan from Bigfoot Theatre entertained us all with an Anansi story in assembly. He then spent the rest of the day doing storytelling and drama workshops around the school. Tuesday 16th – with a professional…
Monday 10th September saw the 70th birthday of our longest serving member of staff, Joan Lea! You will all know her as our senior admin officer but her association with the school goes way back. As a local girl, she attended Friars and started here in 1953 at the tender age of 5. Joan’s own…
On Wednesday 11th July, and as part of our annual health week, the school decamped to Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park for our sports day. All children took part in what was an inclusive, lively and fun packed morning. The event was very well supported by parents and we even saw a very good natured tug…
On a sweltering Friday afternoon at the end of June, the brilliant musicians and dancers of Friars showcased their talents to a packed hall. Year 2 performed an ensemble piece, playing chime bars, drums and singing, Year 4 blew the roof off with some amazing samba drumming and Year 5 did an excellent world cup…
