woolwich polytechnic school
London
Welcome to Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys, and thank you for taking the
time to express your interest in us. We are a very special school that aims to
serve the community, improve opportunity for our community and also reflect our
community through our diverse and ambitious curriculum, as well as through our
diverse staff and student bodies. We hope that you, too, feel that specialness
when you visit us, a specialness that encompasses care and compassion, a genuine
delight in children’s contributions and a drive towards “success for everyone”.
We have a long and proud history, having educated boys for over 100 years: we
have been a technical school, reported as the most improved boy’s school in the
country, a community school and now an academy, a single school and now the
founding ‘brother’ to our sister school, Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls.
We have year-on-year exam results at GCSE and A Level that make us, our students
and their families rightly proud. Yet our relentless focus is upon the futures
of our current students as we counsel them through their educational careers to
be the most successful version of themselves. To support your son through their
secondary education, we have firm foundations in exemplary pastoral care and
expert teaching. Safeguarding our students is the absolute priority that informs
the behaviours we demonstrate in the staff and student bodies. Our pastoral care
and personal development programme are child-centred, empathetic to individual
children’s needs, recognising their challenges and assisting with overcoming
them. We care; we listen; we understand context and we actively build meaningful
relationships with every child. Our teaching is equally child-centred, offering
support and challenge as required to ensure that all our students achieve the
grades they need to pursue the courses and careers they aspire to with
confidence. Our curriculum is designed so that students can make
interconnections between the various subject disciplines, hence stimulating a
culture of curiosity and questioning so that all our boys leave us as
well-rounded, caring members of the community, ready to navigate the adult world
safely, critically and knowledgeably. We also recognise that child development
is enhanced through pleasure and we therefore cater for their personal interests
with an extensive enrichment programme, including wellbeing days, our Activities
Week, curriculum and reward trips and a variety of clubs. There are always
opportunities for your son to have their voice heard, whether through the
Student Council or more informal feedback to tutors, teachers and head of year
or our dedicated student voice co-ordinator. I am confident that you will have
made the right choice for your son by privileging us with his care, education
and personal development so welcome to the Poly family.
