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Latest Update: 26th November 2025
Southwark Council Want Your Feedback!
Southwark Council is seeking your valuable input regarding the Surrey Square Primary School Superzone and its impact on the health, safety, and well-being of children within your community. Your feedback will be instrumental in creating a safer and healthier environment for all children who reside, study, and enjoy activities in the area.
While we regularly engage with the schools in the Superzone, we are now eager to gather perspectives from Southwark residents, parents, and individuals who work and live within the area.
To share your important and valued perspective, kindly click on the link provided below.
Fun Football Sessions For Every Girl
A message from Amelia St Dental Practice:
We are currently reaching out to local schools to help spread the word to parents that we are now welcoming new patients and encouraging them to book appointments for this special day. Existing patients are of course, also very welcome.
We want to help make oral health support more accessible for every child in our community.
The day will be entirely dedicated to children, with goody bags and plenty of educational resources to help young patients feel comfortable and confident about visiting the dentist. Our aim is to highlight the importance of regular dental visits from an early age and to make the experience as positive and enjoyable as possible.
We would be extremely grateful if you could share this information and spread the word with your school’s parents and carers and encourage them to book appointments for their children.
If this could be added to your school newsletters this would be great.
Please feel free to pass on our contact details, and do not hesitate to get in touch if you need any further information ahead of the event.
Our Details:
Email reception.ameliastreet@colosseumdental.co.uk
Contact Number: 02077035601
Address- 22 Amelia St, London SE17 3BY
They can also go on to our website to register directly and book appointments, they can also fill out our enquiry form where we can then contact them to make a booking.
This day will be held between 09:00am and 17:00pm.
If you are having difficulties with managing debt of any kind, such as council tax or rent arrears, or any other sort of debt, please see this website for a charity called Step Change, where you can get free advice and support: https://www.stepchange.org/ They are very helpful either over the phone to start off with, (0800 138 1111, Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm and Saturday 9am to 2pm) or if you need more in-depth advice, you can complete a self-referral. They will give you advice about how to start repaying your debt, and how to deal with bailiffs who might be involved with reclaiming your debt, which can be a very worrying and frightening experience. Please get in touch if you would like to talk about this.
Please see below for our long-standing resource with Kineara for those who are living in temporary accommodation and may need support.
Free Football sessions from Mentivity
CLEAN AIR MAP by YEAR 5!
This is what air pollution can do to you:
Have you ever wondered that you could be breathing in bad types of gas? Do you walk along a place with lots of traffic? Do you want to walk along a nice clean area with clean air? Then why are you still walking through areas with lots of traffic? Start to look for new areas to walk through.
It can affect
Did you know that 790,000 people died in Europe last year from the air pollution coming out of cars? The car's gases can affect your lungs with infections and diseases and it can give you asthma and make you sick. Do you want to be scared your whole life and never want to go outside? Well then tell your parents to stop driving non electric cars and stop harming the environment and children's lives.
It's very important
Take care of your health because it could be endangered! If you walk along Old Kent Road or through a place that has lots of cars and it is always busy, take a new route so that you can keep yourself safe and not go through horrible things from the car's gases.
You should know…
It is a worrying fact that lots and lots of people drive non-electric cars and the gases come from those cars. A lot of that gas is breathed in and that could make you die or get ill. Tell all of this to your parents and warn them air is not what you always think it is.
Ella’s law:
It's so upsetting that a nine year old girl died from just walking to school and breathing in the air like a normal person would do. Unfortunately the girl died from getting asthma from the cars.
You can do it!
You can start walking through estates that have less cars around the area, take walks through the parks and get to breathe in the fresh air and not endanger your health.
What you might have to worry about:
Children start to get worried about going outside to play because they are scared to breathe in the dirty air because they don't want to get sick from the car's gases that comes into the air.
Routes you can take:
Kinglake is a great route to take, they even blocked the area from cars going in. Surrey Square park is good because the area has lots of grass and no cars can go through there. Burgess Park is amazing. There's a lake, there's grass, there's a park no cars go through there. Thurlow Street is very good too.Fremantle street is perfect, it's lovely.
Now you can breathe in clean air and these are not just the only places to walk along with clean air
Text by Raheema, Bellos Class.
We have been made aware of the Cayr Charity and their project Pink Stitch – a workshop series focused on using creativity to explore and process health experiences. See the flyer below for more information.
If this is something you relate to and if you’d like to surround yourself with women who’ve been on a similar journey , share your story, engage with your experience in a more creative way and be a part of something special, register your interest here .
Parkrun
Don’t forget we are lucky to live so close to Burgess Park where each weekend there are FREE PARKRUN activities for adults and children. Check out this website for more information!
Our friends at Spring Community Hub are starting a new online course supporting people to reach their full potential in life. Please see the details below and email infoexcel6@gmail.com if you are interested or want further information.
Check out these wonderful opportunities from Community Cycleworks
Local Foodbanks on offer:
Local Stay and Play Sessions:
FREE ENGLISH COURSE FOR PARENTS
Would you like to support your children with their school work and exams? Do you want to increase your confidence in English for your own life or work? Join Southbank UA and Lambeth College for classes dedicated to parents. Lessons will help you improve your reading, writing and communication skills. We will also guide you to further courses to support with numeracy and IT. This course is completely free, and you will have help and support from experienced teachers.
To sign up and for more information email: office@southbankua.org.uk Phone: 020 7277 3000
King's College London and South London Citizens have created two groups aimed at empowering parents to guide their children’s academic journey effectively and campaign for their access to university and other educational opportunities:
South London Parent Power: Open to all parents, providing comprehensive resources and tools to help foster their children’s educational development and college admissions journey.
Empoderando Familias: Tailored to assist Hispanic parents with resources and strategies that align with their unique needs in supporting their children’s academic success.
South London Citizens are arranging a day of events to celebrate another year of campaigning. Please see the flyer below and do let Fi know if you intend to attend (fcarrick-davies@ssq.org.uk)
Below are flyers from IRMO (Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation). Scroll for your language of choice!
Southwark Food Action Alliance Food Map
Southwark Food Action Alliance have launched their new food map which you can access using this link. This map shows food banks and pantries, community fridges, community meals and more. They have also produced a leaflet that is split into four sections: Places to go for free food, Places to go for low-cost food, Places to go for meals, cafes and takeaways, and Foodbanks where you need a referral or voucher from an agency. You can view and download the leaflet here.
Footballers in Years 3,4 and 5 wanted!
As you may or may not be aware, Southwark Jaguars launched their first ever girls football team in August 2023. Since that first sunny day they have grown from strength to strength and currently have 60 girls registered across our U9’s, U10’s, U11’s & U12’s teams. We can guarantee that most of you will have at least one girl at our school that is a Southwark Jaguar. With that in mind they are keen to offer the opportunity of playing competitive weekend football to more girls. Unlike most football teams they do not offer trials. If you are girl and want to play, then this is the club for you. Please note they are looking for girls that are currently in year three, four and five.
Parents/carers will need to follow the link below or scan the QR CODE on the attached flyer to register their interest.
Southwark Jaguars Register of Interest – The PE & School Sports Network (lpessn.org.uk)
The SEND Saturday Sports Club returns!
This amazing opportunity reopens again on Saturday 21st September! Please see the below info or find our more from the LPESSN website.
