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The school was established in September 2019, constructed on a playing field of Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys. [2] [3] It is a free school for girls aged 11 to 16, [4] however a sixth form provision is offered in conjunction with Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys on the boys' school site.
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Woolwich Polytechnic and Woolwich Polytechnic School are names shared by more than one institution: Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys, a school located in Thamesmead, London; Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls, a school located in Thamesmead, London; University of Greenwich, previously known as Woolwich Polytechnic
The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom.Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic. [3]The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with its Avery Hill campus, is located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
In 1884 Didden moved to Woolwich to take up a job as a fitter at the Royal Arsenal. He also had a burning ambition to set up a polytechnic in the Woolwich. In 1884 Woolwich had a population of about 34,000 people, many of whom were employed as engineers at the Royal Arsenal, or the other large factories in the area.
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Woolwich Polytechnic (later Thames Polytechnic, now the University of Greenwich) in south-east London, emerged in the 1890s and is considered the second-oldest polytechnic in the UK. [citation needed] The South-Western Polytechnic Institute (1895–1922) was founded for 'the provision of education for the poorer inhabitants of London'.
The former St Joseph's Campus at 269 Woolwich Road near Bostall Heath in Abbey Wood used to be the St Joseph's Convent Grammar School, a Catholic girls' school until 1979; there also was the Main Road campus in Sidcup. Both sites were sold off for housing developments principally to earn revenue for the College.