Dear Parents/Carers,
These are the approximate times for dismissal from school tomorrow. Students will all leave via the back gate unless there is a prior arrangement for them to leave via the front gate.
Thank you.
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Year |
Dismissal |
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10 |
12.00pm |
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9 |
12.15pm |
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8 |
12.30pm |
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7 |
12.45pm |
On Saturday 15th July 2023 27 members of staff at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls took part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge.
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge is 24-miles (38.6km) round trip route and includes 1585m (5200ft) of ascent.
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge takes on the peaks of Pen-y-Ghent (694 metres), Whernside (736 metres) and Ingleborough (723 metres), usually in this order, and in under 12 hours. These hills form part of the Pennine range and encircle the head of the valley of the River Ribble, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
'Our coach trip was epic, and our journey started with a lack of sleep before we even started. It was extremely challenging! We started off at 6am with 27 of us - by Peak 3, 9 of us were left standing. It was a great weekend of team building and overcoming our own individual barriers. I am extremely proud of everyone who came along, and it is a privilege to work alongside such caring and supportive colleagues.'
Ms Williams
It was relentless. On all levels. 12+ hours of non-stop walking with only 3 minutes breaks is brutal in itself. Then throw in high winds, rain, hail, thunder and lightning, and some mental climbing. I am broken but what an achievement.'
Ms Holmes
'Thoroughly enjoyed climbing the Yorkshire Peaks. I internally cried but externally laughed so much thanks to my colleagues - well worth it!'
Ms Adkins
'Celebration evening is my favourite event of the school year because I love getting the opportunity to really celebrate our students achievements in a big way! It's lovely to see all the different prizes that the departments put together for our subject winners and to see the excitement on the students faces when they receive them. I'm always especially proud of those students that go above and beyond to win our special prizes too, they truly are special and mean so much to the students who win them. Our guest speakers this year were outstanding, and we're so grateful to have had them come along and share their stories to further inspire our students to achieve great things personally and academically. We are so proud of all our winners!'
Miss Smith - DSL & Assistant Headteacher
Youth Takeover Day Tramshed
FREE Workshops and Live Youth Music - Saturday 15th July 2023 1-7.30pm.
#tramshed #free #polymat #woolwichpoly #woolwichpolytechnic #thamesmead #greenwich
On Wednesday 5th July the staff at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls took 10 students from Year 7 -9 on a hike into the countryside where they walked for 7 miles. The main purpose of this outing was to build character and teamwork. The students were great and worked so well together even when they began to get tired. The joy and wonder throughout the afternoon was wholesome.
Ms Williams - Head of School
GREENWICH – Jubilee Community Centre, Thamesmead, (Mon 24th July 2023 to Thur 17th Aug 2023). Please note that spaces for this provision are limited, and they will be taken up on first come, first served basis for those that qualify.
Independent bookings are also available across all centres, as adhoc bookings, and this goes out on limited available spaces at £30 per child per day.
To clarify, to book a space for your child at the club, we need parents/carers to:
FOR EXISTING PARENTS/CARERS
https://tinyurl.com/SmileyArk-Summer23-Hols-Fun
FOR NEW PARENTS/CARERS
https://tinyurl.com/SmileyArk-Summer23-Hols-Fun
https://tinyurl.com/SmileyArk-Child-Profile-Form
SmileyArk Kids operates an online booking system. Bookings can only be accepted and confirmed once they have been fully activated on the system with an approved contract or an adhoc booking.
Please get in touch with SmileyArk if you have any questions via email Smileyark Kids kids@smileyark.com.
Today sees the launch of the brand-new feature across our platforms – Sound Bites!
Our music department have recorded short clips of our amazing students here at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls, and we will be regularly will be sharing these sound bites for our school community to enjoy. We are so lucky to have such wonderful and talented musicians at our school.
Our first sound bite features Year 10 student Naomi who performed ‘Feeling Good’ in the Winter Concert. Naomi is taking music as one of her options and is an excellent singer who has performed in a number of our concerts and recital evenings.
Happy listening!
Dear parents/carers,
You will be aware that NEU teachers will be striking on Wednesday 5th July as well as on Friday 7th July 2023.
Due to significantly reduced staffing, we will be running the following limited programme for invited students only.
Wednesday 5th July 2023:
Friday 7th July 2023:
Please look out for messages soon from us to check whether your daughter has been invited in.
Best wishes,
Ms. Williams - Head of School
Dear Parents/Carers,
Thank you for taking the time to do the parent survey. We have valued your feedback and as promised we have taken action on things that have been raised. Your partnership is important to us, and we hope that we can continue to work together to ensure that our girls achieve success on a daily basis.
Ms L Williams - Head of School
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A free online safety guide on money muling.
Criminal organisations digitally ‘launder’ the illegal profits of their operations (including scams and drug deals) by moving funds through innocent-looking accounts, which makes it harder for the police to track. To achieve this, they often recruit young people – money mules – who are trusting enough to be taken in by their advances and simply see an easy way to make some cash.
These impressionable youngsters are sometimes approached to take part in person – but more commonly it happens through social media, where the criminals use euphemistic titles like ‘money transfer agencies’. Our #WakeUpWednesday guide takes a look at this emerging online hazard, highlighting how trusted adults can help to protect young people from money muling.
Click here to download the free online safety guide on money muling
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A free online safety guide on AI virtual friends.
Artificial intelligence is probably the hot topic in technology circle right now, with questions being raised worldwide about how AI might conceivably affect the very future of the human race. In the short term, however – definitely as far as its impact on young people is concerned – the clearest risk is almost certainly the AI-powered ‘virtual friends’ which are springing up all over the internet.
There’s Replika and Kuki, for instance, while Snapchat has recently got in on the act with My AI – and search engines like Bing and Google have developed their own versions. Are these machine intelligences suitable online companions for young people? What are their limitations and weak spots? Our #WakeUpWednesday guide profiles the emergence of AI ‘virtual friends’.
Year 10 student, Michelle wins Star Pupil Award at the National Be Kind Awards 2023.
A few months ago, staff at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls decided to nominate Year 10 student Michelle for a Be Kind Award.
The Be Kind awards are all about recognising and celebrating young people not just for their academic achievements in school but also for the way that they treat others and show acts of kindness. Individual students, student groups and schools can be nominated in different categories relating to kindness. We nominated Michelle due to her wonderful, caring, patient and kind nature, especially when one of her friends was going through the most awful experience. In 2021, Michelle’s friend was suddenly diagnosed with a life altering brain tumour. She endured several operations and rounds of chemotherapy and was out of school for a year. During this time Michelle made sure that she kept in touch, on the phone and in person when she was allowed; she kept her up to date with all the school gossip and when she couldn’t respond she would talk to her and text her anyway!
Michelle has helped her friend to regain her speech and has supported her physically to regain her movement, independence, and strength, especially on days when she finds that difficult. Michelle supports her friend both in school and outside of school, and we really wanted to show Michele how grateful and proud everyone is of her. Once we sent the nomination, we didn’t hear anything for a long time and assumed that unfortunately Michelle hadn’t been shortlisted. A few weeks ago, we received an email from the award winners saying that Michelle had indeed been shortlisted for the Star Pupil award!
On Monday 19th June 2023, Michelle and her friend were escorted all the way to Manchester by a member of staff to attend the awards ceremony. They were extremely excited to be going and hoping for the best. They had a great day and were astounded when the winners were being announced and Michelle’s name was called! Michelle had won the Star Pupil category at the National Be Kind Awards!
On behalf of everyone here at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls we are so very proud of Michelle and all that she has done and continues to do for her best friend. Michelle is one of the most selfless, giving and kind humans, and we are very lucky to have her within our school community.
Click here to find out more information about the Be Kind Awards
