On Thursday 24th November 2022 we welcomed staff, students and parents/carers into school for our Key Stage 4&5 Prize Giving to celebrate a very successful year.

A summary of this success can be captured in our 2022 results - our best ever results: 87% of our Year 11 students achieving passes in English and Maths, with 30% of all GCSE entries achieving grades 7-9; 90% of our Year 13 students have secured places at University, more than ever before to Oxbridge and Russell Group, whilst the majority of the remaining students have secured high-quality apprenticeships. 

The purpose of Prize Giving is to pause and take note or a milestone in life. Each of the students that received commendations have their own unique stories of difficulty, hard work, set backs and triumph. 

A huge thank you to our special guest speaker, Charles Alexis who awarded prizes and also spoke at the event. Charles Alexis is a software developer, entrepreneur and musician. Due to unforeseen circumstances, he left school with no formal qualifications. His tech career began at 17, when he developed an interest in coding and began many projects and created a number of businesses with his younger brother. As a result of his enthusiasm and fast learning, he became a sought-after developer and is now currently employed as a Senior Software Developer for an international marketing company. He is a regular motivational speaker and keynote speaker at schools & careers events. 

Well done to our students who performed at the event. The two musical pieces 'Oh when the Saints' and 'Cave Man' were simply amazing. Well done to Jermira and Callum who performed the drama piece 'Two weeks with the Queen' by Morris Gleitzman. We are so privileged to have such talented students at our school. 

Thank you to Mr Tom Lawrence our Head of School, Ms Sylvia Perrins our Chair of Trustees and Councillor Mr L Fletcher - The Mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich for awarding prizes at the event.

A wonderful evening had by all, another fantastic Prize Giving to celebrate our the achievements of our students. Thank you to everyone involved in the event and everyone who attended, your support is greatly appreciated.

Wednesday 30th November 2022 - 2.40-4.30pm

Our next event in the PolyMAT Presents series will focus on the importance of active, rather than passive, classroom activity as an essential ingredient in the learning process. We will hear from Dr. Craig Blewett, author of Activated Classroom Teaching or (ACT), a pedagogy designed to help move learning from passive to active supported by new technologies. We will also hear from a number of Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts, including Catherine Coleman, who will discuss the 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) pedagogy, and Cameron Kaljouw who will show how this can be put into practice using tools such as Minecraft.

Click here for further information about the event and the webinar link

All our speakers will be focussed on the active classroom/ active learning topic.

We look forward to you joining us for this virtual mini-conference either live, or afterwards when these are posted to YouTube. 

You can watch our other 5 series of PolyMAT presents on our YouTube channel here

I am just writing to remind you that the school has a late start on Thursday 10^th November, this is because of the 6^th form open evening. Students will not be allowed to enter the school until 10.15am. They will go to registration for 10.20am, and have break at 10.30 - 11am. 

In addition, on Wednesday 9^th November Year 11 students will go home at the earlier time of 12.40, to allow them time to go home and come back with parents. They are only allowed to attend the 6^th form open evening if accompanied by a parent/carer between 3.45pm and 4.45pm. Please contact the Head of Year if this is not possible.

Ms J Lumbis

Deputy Headteacher

Take a look at our curriculum offer. All of our updated flyers and subject information can be found here.

Breast Cancer Now - Wear it Pink is a charity event that the Poly have supported over the past few years, it is a charity close to our hearts as we have had several colleagues who have benefitted from their support. This year we will be holding our special day on Friday 4^th November, staff and students can wear something pink to school-suggested donation £1.

We are also holding our very own ‘Poly Bake Off’, the bakes will be judged on the day by three judges from the boy’s school. A big thank you to Learning Support for hosting the bake sale on the day, I hope with everyone’s support we can raise some much-needed money!

You can donate to our JustGiving page for Wear it Pink 2022 here