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 will be available until Friday 24^th February 2023, so please make sure to have your say and share your feedback over the next few weeks.

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!

Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls is proudly supporting                Safer Internet Day - Tuesday 7th February 2023

Over the years, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. Starting as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 and taken up by the Insafe network as one of its earliest actions in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated in approximately 180 countries and territories worldwide.

From cyberbullying to social networking to digital identity, each year Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness of emerging online issues and current concerns.

Below you'll find a gallery of resources - from across the Insafe network of Safer Internet Centres and beyond - to help you celebrate Safer Internet Day in your school or home... and indeed promote a safer and better internet all year through!

• Safer Internet Day Resources

We have also shared some useful links to resources for parents/carers and students, please find below:

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.