This morning we welcomed our parents and carers into school for another Poly Parent Morning. With refreshments available we kicked off the morning with a warm welcome from our Head of School Ms Williams.

Ms Smith our Assistant Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead led a session with our parents and carers looking at what we can do to make our students feel safer.

Taking inspiration from Professor Carlene Firmin and her work on Contextual Safeguarding, we are currently undertaking a large project to understand how safe our students feel in their various contexts.  This includes different areas and spaces in school, the areas surround the school in Thamesmead and in Woolwich as well as in their online worlds.  We have started to ask students to take part in mapping exercises where they rate these areas in terms of how safe they feel and today asked parents to take part too.  We asked them how they think their daughter feels in these areas and on certain websites/apps so that we can compare the results.  We will continue to do this with more students and parents in the coming weeks and months. 

Once this piece of work is complete, we will be sharing it with our school and wider community as well as local stakeholders such as Greenwich Council, the local police, shop owners, TfL and Peabody. 

We'd like to thank those that took part today and look forward to involving more of you in this work in coming half-term.

Thank you to Ms Brown - Pastoral Administrator & Student Support for coordinating this wonderful event today.

We also welcomed a special guest Raquelle into school for the morning from the Families Information Service who was sharing free advice and support for families in Greenwich with children and young people aged 0-19 (or up to 25 for those with special educational needs or disability).

• Families Information Service
• Greenwich Community Directory

Dear Parent/carer

Our next Poly Parent Morning will be coming up on Friday 3rd February 2023 from 9.15 a.m. - 10.15 a.m.

Poly Parent morning is a forum where we invite parents every half-term to come into our school to meet with other parents and staff to share information in an informal way that will benefit your daughter.

For our upcoming morning we would like to involve you in conversation about keeping students safe in the context of the community and on their way to and from school.

We will be asking your opinions and also to help us map out any concerns in the local area so that we can work together to safeguard the students.

Light refreshments will be provided, and young children are welcome to come along too.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible that are able to make it.

Kind regards,

Mrs R Brown

Pastoral Administrator/Student Support

Thursday 26th January 2023

This morning Year 7 & 8 students from Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys and Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls participated in a new exciting enrichment programme – MESME Maths Circle.

Dr D Vaccaro led the first session where students began work on enhancing their mathematical ability. The course encourages mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems.

MESME is a registered charity (no. 1199281). MESME’s purpose is to support high-attaining students to achieve mathematical excellence, so that they go on to have a greater and richer range of future personal, employment and economic choices.​​​ You can read more on MESME’s website www.mesme.org.

In a MESME Maths Circle, a small group of students come together regularly with an experienced, knowledgeable mentor to grapple with intriguing questions, to discover and explore exciting ideas, and to learn to think like advanced mathematicians. Participating in Maths Circles will develop your child’s mathematical reasoning and expand their mathematical curiosity, as well as refining their technical knowledge and skills. Your child will follow a precisely sequenced and carefully structured curriculum.

Residents can apply for free tickets to home games at Charlton Athletic

The full article can be found in the latest issue of the Greenwich Info Publication here

Tickets are limited and issued on a first come, first served basis. Request tickets by emailing Bev beverley.marchant@ royalgreenwich.gov.uk at least a week before the game. Please provide the preferred game, your full name, address, date of birth as well as contact email and number.

Please state if you would like a print at home ticket or mobile tickets. You can get up to two tickets for one game only. Tickets are for the person named only and cannot be passed on or sold.

Tickets are available for the following home games:

• Fleetwood Town, Saturday 11 February
• Sheffield Wednesday, Saturday 25 February
• Accrington Stanley, Saturday 11 March
• Wycombe Wanderers, Saturday 25 March

The tickets are available to residents as part of our Greenwich Supports campaign to help people during the cost-of-living crisis. royalgreenwich.gov.uk/charlton-tickets

You can also support your local team by buying tickets at booking.cafc.co.uk

Happy Chinese New Year to all the families within our School community from everyone at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls!

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, is the most important festival in China & a major event in some East Asian countries.

The Chinese New Year is often called the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. These names are in relation to the use of the lunisolar calendar to determine when the next Chinese New Year will fall, as well as the celebration of warmer weather and new growth.

For 2023, the Chinese New Year will start on Sunday 22 January and celebrates the Year of the Rabbit.

The Government has announced an additional one-off bank holiday on Monday 8 May 2023 to mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.

Note this is in addition to the May Day bank holiday already scheduled for Monday 1 May 2023.

The school will be closed to all students and staff on these dates.