Y5: Reading Cafe

Our last reading café events were held today in both schools for Year 5 children and parents. Thanks you to all the parents who were able to come and support your children. We had some great comments from you all.   I enjoyed reading…

Y6: The Lion King

After weeks of rehearsals year 6 came together to perform an amazing version of The Lion King. The preparation began with lots of line learning and mass singing rehearsals. The Circle of Life felt particularly relevant as Year 6 complete…

Y2: Sunny Southend!

This week, Year 2 took a trip to the seaside at Southend.                   I had so much fun! I liked putting my feet in the water. –Tilly           The…

What a talented team!

We are delighted to share with you some exciting news! Last night at the Southwark Excellence Teaching award ceremony, three of our talented staff members were nominated for special awards. Well done to Richard our year 6 teacher at Snowsfields…

We do love to be beside the seaside!

The year two classes across the federation had an amazing time at the seaside this week! Here are some of lovely recounts the children produced in Orange class.   'We got to school at 8:15 and excitedly walked to the coach to meet…

EYFS at the Aquarium!

This week Early Years went on a fantastic adventure by bus to the London Aquarium. We were excited to see the sharks, turtles, penguins, jellyfish, starfish,   seahorses as well as a variety of other sea creatures and plant life. We especially…

Year 4 Reading Cafe

For the last 2 weeks, Year 4 at both Snowsfields and Tower Bridge have hosted their Reading Cafes: "I learned a lot today by coming to the Reading café with my son. I get to read with him in his class. And I enjoy it." "I liked reading…

A Tale Unfolds filming project with Yellow Class

We have been working really hard with a company called 'A Tale Unfolds' on a film making project about the negative impact plastic has on the environment and especially on sea life. Our main objective was to create a film to encourage people…

EYFS at the Sea Life Aquarium

The children in Butterfly and caterpillar classes had a fantastic time at Sea Life Aquarium on the South Bank. It has been a very successful trip and a lot of it was thank you to the people who assisted us with our volunteers and adult ratios…

Year 3: Reading Cafe

Both Year 3 classes across the federation recently hosted their reading cafes to parents. Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend. The children have enjoyed sharing stories and their new books with you. "I like that Mum sits…

Huge turnout for the Tower Bridge Election

As part of our learning about life in Great Britain, Tower Bridge held their own mock election on Thursday. The children watched Newsround clips about the main parties and then were taken to the Polling station in the library to cast their vote.   Later…

snowsfields General Elections 2017

We have run our own general elections today to decide who the next prime minister will be. We watched the different political party 60 second guides and discussed which party would look after us the best.  In class, we talked about democracy…

SCHOOL WILL REOPEN ON TUESDAY 6TH JUNE

Dear Parents and Carers, As you will all be aware there was a major incident at London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday night. I would like to start by saying that all our thoughts and prayers are with those who were caught up in these…

SCHOOL CLOSED MONDAY 5TH JUNE

Due to the ongoing incident at London Bridge, Snowsfields and Tower Bridge Primary schools will be closed on Monday 5th June. Please check your texts and the website for further information. We will let you know about Tuesday as soon as possible.…

Year 6: F.A.V.S

Last week Year 6 visited London City Mission as part of their R.E and History learning to discover Faith In Action Victorian Style. We dressed up like Victorians and we saw old buses and we drank tea. In the Victorian times they would…

Year 2: Reading Cafe

So many parents came to read with their children, we had to borrow chairs from other rooms! Thank you to all who came. It was lovely seeing you spend quality reading time with your children. I liked reading to my mum. Because it was fun and…

Year 5: Herb Gardening

Some of the Year 5 children were asked to help out with the Herb Garden at Snowsfields School.             Today we went to Snowsfields so that we could garden. When we arrived there, we split…

Year 2: Reading Cafe

We had an amazing show of parents for the Year 2 Reading Café! It was clear that the children love books and enjoyed sharing them with all the adults. "I enjoyed reading with mummy." "I like reading with my mum because it makes me smart." "I…

Year 1 Assembly

Last Friday Year 1 performed our class assembly. Our topic is on monsters and we performed a play about a good monster who was judged by the way she looked. “I played a good monster. I had to go in the cupboard and then Temitayo and Temidayo…

EYFS Trip to the Science Museum

      On Wednesday 3rd May Reception had the lovely opportunity to visit the Science Museum! We had a wonderful experience of getting to take the tube and we were very sensible and responsible during our travel. It…

Potters Fields Herb Garden

  Ahead of International Herb Day, which took place on Saturday 6th May, a pop up urban herb garden was erected on Potters Fields. The horticultural display celebrated the benefits of growing and cultivating your own herbs. Gardening…

On Wednesday 28th February, Year 5 braved the snowy conditions and went to Westminster as part of their learning about Democracy.   Year 5 went to Parliament. The journey was really cold because… THERE WAS SNOW! The last time it snowed was in 2009! 30 minutes later we were just outside Parliament but you would […]

Tower Bridge and Snowfields schools will be closed tomorrow  Friday 2nd March due to weather warnings and travel disruption. We will reopen on Monday 5th March. Keep warm and stay safe!   We will be closed today due to the adverse weather conditions. We will keep parents informed by text message about tomorrow. Stay safe, […]

This year the school council decided to raise money for the NSPCC -National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children- so on Wednesday 21st February all the children had a ‘Wear something green’ day to support this charity. We had some representatives from the NSPCC come in and talk to us about what they […]

Last week, as part of our people who help us topic, we had the police and firefighters visit our school. The police talked to us about their job and how they keep us safe in our community and what number to call if we are in trouble. The firefighters showed us all their equipment they […]

In September 2016 we introduced the ‘daily mile’ for the children at the Bridges Federation. We noticed that this had a brilliant impact on the children’s health and well-being. They were more resilient and focused in class too. Following this success we wanted to include our parents and staff too. We knew that many of […]

It has come to be an annual tradition where year 5 have been involved with the Lantern Parade at Potters Fields and Hay’s Galleria, kindly organised by Team London Bridge. Helen Harrison runs the lantern making workshops and always manages to think of wonderful Christmas themed things that can be made into lanterns. This year we […]

Thank you to all the parents and pupils at both schools for completing your questionnaires. The results are overwhelmingly positive. You clearly love your school. You can read all the results on the Ofsted and Parent View pages under each school tab on this website. Snowsfields Tower Bridge You will also get the highlights on […]

https://www.think.gov.uk/education/resource/crossing-the-road/ We are really proud of our year 1 and 2 children who took part in the 2017    road safety campaign! ‘I was asked to take part in a road safety film and I loved it! My favourite part was when the director gave me a microphone then he could hear me talk to him […]

This week we had a lantern workshop. We had to make them for a lantern parade!! First we put ourselves in two groups. I was in the Berry group. On the first day we met Helen who was our teacher. First we made the shape with bamboo. The next day we covered it with strong […]

We had an amazing time during International Week! We learnt about very famous and inspirational scientists while having the most fun ever! Joshua Year 5 This week we have learnt about Black History Month.  This poem is inspired by what happened in the past.  I hope this poem can change the way we live. Imagine […]

Some of our children were lucky to be invited to the official launch of the new film: Paddington 2!   They went to meet Paddington at MoreLondon, who happened to bring another star of the film, Hugh Bonneville as well as the Mayor, Sadiq Khan. The children behaved beautifully, even though Paddington was being a […]

International Week celebrated Black history Month with a special focus on scientists and inventors. The children have spent this week writing biographies, creating portraits and writing poetry to be read aloud at International Evening. We had learnt about Bessie Coleman as part of Black History Month. On Tuesday and Wednesday we made portraits of her […]

The LPESSN (London PE and Sport School Network) held some events to celebrate Women in Sport. Girls from the federation took part in American Football and Boxing. On Monday some of us went to learn how to play American football. First we learnt what the people were called and we played. I was partnered up […]

For the past year, children have been running everyday for 5 minutes at the beginning of morning play. They have been building up their stamina and resilience – some are even running a mile each morning!!! Last week some of the Year 5 and 6 pupils went to Southwark Park to take part in a […]

Year 6 spent a week working with IntoUniversity, a local learning centre which runs workshops and projects inspiring young people to achieve a higher education. Purple class were lucky enough to visit HMS Belfast and visit Trinity College in Cambridge! Such wonderful opportunities to start their journey in Year 6.

On Monday 18th September, we went to the Churchill War Rooms. Once inside, we were shown a video from World War 2. We were handed out some devices that informed us about the different rooms. Interestingly, the people that worked there left the rooms in the same state as when they first went in.  We […]

                                              Lilah Lucy took a photo of us and cut it in half. We put half of the photograph and then we drew the other side of our faces using lots of different […]

This year Adele and Lateefah were nominated for Primary Sports Leader of the year. Sadly they missed out on winning, however we are very proud of all their hard work and the hard work of their fellow sports leaders. Without them the federation would not have won Healthy School of the Year. We are delighted […]

On Tuesday 11th July EYFS had a special ‘Graduation’ with our friends and parents. We were really excited to show our families our good behaviour, fabulous singing and also celebrate our excellent year of learning together. We sang ‘Baby Shark,’ ‘I Can Count to Twenty’ and enjoyed collecting our certificates whilst wearing our special, handmade […]

Last Friday we joined together at Southwark Park to take part in sports activities and Race for Life. Staff, children and parents all joined in—as you can see we had a wonderful time!

                                          Last night, the year 5 from the Bridges Federation entertained audiences at the Royal Festival Hall with an outstanding performance. The children have been rehearsing for the past few weeks with the Splash team […]