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.
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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…
We had an arts week starting on the 11th June using “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint Exupery as our starting point. Each class produced their own surrealist art work on canvases. In addition we used the book to inspire painting the hoardings around our new building development. Each class took a theme from…
The final full day of the children’s adventure down on the farm was completely action packed. There was pig weiging, sheep herding, measuring milk for calves and feeding them, overcoming fears and stroking horses, a hearty lunch, making flower and clay creations as well as bread in the outdoor oven and of course den making…
