The Big Easter Raffle!

Join in for a chance to win a grand hamper filled with chocolates, sweets, and an Easter bunny! You have to be in it to win it. You can purchase raffle tickets from Mrs. Hawgood at reception for £1 per strip.

The Student Council will also bring the hamper around during form time for ticket purchases. The raffle runs until Wednesday, March 27th, and the winner will be announced on Thursday, March 28th.

All proceeds will be used to purchase Easter eggs for the children at the Safari ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which treats children with cancer. Spread the word to family and friends! Everyone is encouraged to join in and contribute by purchasing tickets to help us buy as many Easter eggs as possible for such a deserving cause within our community.

We appreciate all your support.

Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys Student Council

Train to teach at PolyMAT working in partnership with Bromley Collegiate

We are actively recruiting for our secondary ITT programme which leads to QTS (with PGCE is also available)

#Techognition - a national celebration of technical support staff.

We asked our staff across PolyMAT to pledge their support and send in comments for our amazing technicians.

This short video is a culmination of all these lovely comments that we wanted to share with our school community today.

A huge thank you to all of our technicians across the trust and all that they do for our schools.

World Book Day 2024!

Today at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys we celebrated World Book Day.

We kicked off the day with an assembly for Year 7 students where our Librarian Ms Griffiths showed that 7C1 had loaned the most amount of library books so far at 222 books. Since they started here at WPSFB Year 7 have loaned 1296 books.

Frederick, Sami, Ayrton and Harley were recognised for their help and support in the library and received a certificate and were able to pick a brand new book to keep as a prize.

Ms Griffiths also gave certificates and books to the following five students for being the top library borrowers, well done to Abdulmateen, Daniel, Nilesh, Cyras and Saswin.

There was a quiz at form time today, which challenged students to identify the title and author of 10 of the most popular books in our school library.

There were also 15 posters placed around the main school building featuring a number and a photo of a book. Students had to find all the numbers, names and authors of all 15 books and all successful entries won a prize.

Our Sixth Form Literacy Leaders have also been gathering student and staff favourite books for a display.

Thankyou to all the staff and everyone involved in literacy week, it has been fantastic to see so many students talking about reading in the build up to World Book Day as well as witnessing so many silent reading sessions going on around school. Reading for pleasure is so very important - Never stop reading!

#worldbookday #worldbookday2024 #wbd2024

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please find attached a link to an opportunity to sign-up to a training course on preventing knife crime with the Ben Kinsella Trust, in Islington on the evening of the 7^th March. They are an organisation that was started in response to the death of Ben Kinsella by his sister Sophie Kinsella. Ben was just 16 years old when he was stabbed to death in a horrific act of senseless violence on 29th June 2008.

The Ben Kinsella Trust - Parents and Carers Knife Crime Awareness | 7 March 5:30pm-7:30pm (beaconforms.com)

Thank you 

Ms J Lumbis

Trust Safeguarding Lead

World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and reading.

World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. The first World Book Day in the UK and Ireland took place in 1997 to encourage young people to discover the pleasure of reading. As World Book Day founder, Baroness Gail Rebuck, recalls “We wanted to do something to reposition reading and our message is the same today as it was then – that reading is fun, relevant, accessible, exciting, and has the power to transform lives.”

World Book Day Website

Dear Parents and Carers,

The week beginning the 4^th March is Literacy Week at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys.  This means there are a number of activities and events taking place across the week in order to promote and encourage literacy.  Throughout the week there are two important events to be aware of:

• On Thursday 7^th March it is World Book Day and staff and students are encouraged to dress up as a character from a book, in cultural dress or in the theme of a genre of books (e.g. a geographer if they like reading about geography).  They can also dress up as a notable individual.  We do not permit students to wear a tracksuit as a character. 
• Each day there will be a Drop Everything And Read event where students are expected to read in silence for 10–15 minutes.  This will be at different times during the day and will be announced on the tannoy.  Please ensure students have access to a reading book of their choice for these times.  Students can access a book from our school library, or we encourage them to use the local libraries if they do not currently have a book they are reading. 

We thank you for your support in promoting literacy amongst our students at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys and look forward to a successful Literacy Week. 

Yours faithfully,

Miss Malone

Lead Practitioner