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…
We celebrated sport relief at Friars on Friday 23rd March 2018. Children took part in a “what can you do in a minute?” challenge after morning break and this involved a lot of star jumps! Also at lunchtime Miss McKenzie, our PE subject leader, did a mile challenge with a group of children in the…
To tie in with British science week that has the theme of exploration and discovery we held a Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) week at Friars during the week of March 12th. It was a great success. Throughout the week children found out about scientists (including the great and sadly departed Stephen Hawking) and…
Despite the adverse weather conditions, we were able to celebrate World Book Day in fine style this year. Each class had a book swap, there were lots of fancy book character costumes (children and staff!) and teachers went round the school reading to different classes. We also look forward to welcoming the author David Lucas…
We have been enjoying the snowy weather at Friars. So far we have been able to keep the school open and the children have had lots of fun making snowmen and playing in our wintery playground.
