What an amazing day we have had at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls celebrating International Women's Day.

We firstly want to say a huge thank you to Wishful Winks for making our school look so beautiful with so many wonderful balloons and decorations. These decorations really added to the atmosphere and fun of the day.

These are just a few pictures of our school, looking very purple!

Our whole school community spent the day celebrating International Women's Day. This year the theme was #EmbracingEquity.  Our guest speaker Jade Barnett came in and shared her story with Year 9 and 10 students and showed them how Equity has enabled her to become very successful despite a really difficult journey in her life.

We had dozens of brilliant women come and talk to our Key Stage 3 students about their careers and every single one of them was so impressed with our students' questions and the way that they interacted with them; they have all agreed to come back again next year!

Isabelle Knight was one of our guest speakers and had some lovely words to say about our school and the event:

'I spent IWD today speaking to Year 7 & 9 girls at a local secondary school, to tell them all about my career in a “Career Hop” event.

One thing that was worth celebrating - a whole sports hall full of women talking about what it’s like to be a working woman in today’s world with the young women who will form the next generation.

We have a duty as women to let girls know about our achievements, to show them how far they can go and encourage them to imagine the endless possibilities for their own futures.

So pleased to have been included in this brilliant event. Thank you Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls.'

There were several workshops throughout the day, with students learning about Equity and what it means and then using that to be creative and think about women that inspire them.  Our Year 10 students supported our Year 7 and 8 students with learning about spoken word and its power to get your message across, our 6^th form students from Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys came to share their insights into GCSE options.  We're really grateful to the older students who gave up their time to share their skills and knowledge with the younger ones.  

Our Year 10 Founders team also organised and ran a lot of the day, showing how much our students rise to the challenge of responsibility and succeed.

How wonderful does Ms Smith and Ms Alejo look in their purple outfits!

Our amazing catering team Wilson Jones provided a themed lunch today in honour of IWD. They also baked and created special edition International Women's Day muffins with all profits made being donated to the Girls Opportunity Alliance.

Overall, it was a wonderful day and we're really proud of our whole school community and how they used the day to raise one another up.

Already looking forward to next year!

Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls celebrating International Women's Day on Wednesday 8th March 2023.

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.

Plan for Wednesday 8th March 2023

• We have Jade Barnett coming in to talk to Year 9 and 10 students - she is a motivational speaker, an Advocate for Youth Inclusion and Opportunity and works with various organisations including being a senior member of the Violence Reduction Unit's Young People's Action Group and a Youth Development Lead for the Prince's Trust.
• We have a Career Hop event for Years 7, 8 and 9 - this gives our students the opportunity to speak to women from a wide variety of career areas including entrepreneurs, business owners, media, scientists, engineers, project managers, recruitment, education, medicine, law and many more!
• Students will be learning about the theme of Embracing Equity - what this means to them and what it means in the wider world.  
• Older students will be working with younger students on expressing themselves through spoken word and students from the Poly 6^th form will also be visiting and working with our students on the day.

Dear parents/carers,

You will be aware that NEU teachers will be striking on Thursday 2nd March 2023.

Due to significantly reduced staffing, we will be running the following limited programme for invited students only.

These students will be invited in a separate message home.

The school day will start at 9.00am for those Year 10 students invited in , finishing by 12.30pm. The school day will start at 9.00am for those invited into the Key Stage 3 hub, finishing by 2.30pm

We will be providing lunch and/or break for students invited in but normal payment arrangements will apply..

Additionally, free school meal vouchers will be sent to students that are not attending school on that day.

Thank you

Message for current parent/carers

We are delighted to invite you to participate in a new annual survey in which we'll be giving you the opportunity to express your opinions on parent and carer engagement at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls, and your overall confidence in the school’s strategy.

To help us with this, we're working together with the Edurio survey platform. You will have received a link to this survey through your MCAS account. 

Surveys are completely anonymous and confidential, though the responses will be aggregated for the purpose of analysis.

The survey deadline has been extended to Friday 3rd March 2023, so please make sure to have your say and share your feedback.

Your opinion and honesty are much appreciated.

If you have any questions or concerns please get in touch with Edurio at support@edurio.com

If you have not received a link to this survey please contact info@woolwichpolygirls.co.uk

We look forward to your feedback!

Dear Parent/Carer,

Apologies for the confusion but the end of term date on the website was incorrect - the final day of the school year is not Thursday 20th July and is Friday the 21^st July. This will be a half day.

Thank you