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Welcome to the Woolwich Polytechnic Rivers of the World Project! Our theme is 'Polluted River' and we will be working with a school from Veracruz, Mexico. We will be adding our own work to the site soon, so keep checking us out!

Please click on the link below to check out our school website...

About the Poly

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Our School is a state-funded boys' school with a mixed 6th form, approximately 1200 students ranging from 11-18 years old. Our boys speak over 85 languages at home. Our community is relatively impoverished compared to other London boroughs, but we do enjoy high levels of success at the Poly and our school has been recognised by OFSTED as 'very good with outstanding features'.
Our school is incredibly multicultural, with boys from all over the world coming to study here. Poly boys go on to be successful in further education and we produce many fine sportsmen.

HI, my name is Lekan; I live in London with my parents and 2 sisters in a 3 bedroom house. I go to Woolwich Polytechnic School, a school for boys, which runs for 5 days a week, being around boys all day just becomes normal after a while due to u having to adjust from primary school to secondary school. My school is a technology school; therefore my school is highly advanced Compared to most other
schools, that others go to, moreover my school is split in departments, which teaches subjects like: English, Math, Science and languages, which we can communicate with other who speak a foreign language in addition, I speak two languages and I’m learning ESPANOL in school.
Close by my school there is a River that goes through the whole of London, which is called the Thames River. London, which is an industrial city? Therefore, the River Thames will get dirty at time and extremely polluted from the rubbish that people throw in there. However, the cause of the contaminated water was the Chinese crab called the mitten crab, which has a Ball of fluff on its claw that carry dirt inside it, moreover the mitten crabs are highly dangerous because they are omnivores, Therefore they are eating all the Thames animals and plant and their Population is expanding rapidly and its becoming a bit of nuisance

Your River

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The Thames is our river. It is the reason London has become one of the most powerful cities in the world.
Our school, Woolwich Polytechnic, was originally built in Woolwich - the home of the Royal Arsenal. The Royal Arsenal has produced ordinance for the British Armed Forces since the time of Henry VIII. The town that gave our school its name was the engine room for the whole British Empire. This history has left an indellible mark on the area. As such the Thames is the gateway to the rest of the World.

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Art Workshop

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WILLIAM WARE William Ware was a landscape painter, born in London 1915. Aged three William fall from a ladder and broke his back, he was confined to various hospitals till he was 16, when he was cured, but during his ordeal he decided to become a painter. He studied at Putney School of Art, gaining a scholarship that took him to Richmond Art School, 1932-37. He married in 1939 to the artist Eileen Aldridge and their son was painter Martin Ware. In 1940 his first war painting of the London blitz was bought by the I.W.M (Imperial War Museum) and a number of others are held in their permanent collection. His first London gallery exhibition was in 1940 at J.Leger & son, exhibiting alongside Augustus John, Sickert, Modigliani, John Piper, Duncan Grant and many others who are now more well-known than he. He set up his own gallery and studio in London at 226, Fulham road and gained a reputation as a restorer, doing work for national galleries and museums. In 1955, he was appointed Art Advisor to The Greek Shipping Line and held a solo exhibition on the maiden voyage of T.S.S.Olympia. He completed murals on their ships “Olympia” and “Arcadia”. In 1965, he opened the William Ware Gallery at 160, Fulham road, replacing it with one at 25 Sloane Street, 1970-75. In 1978 he moved to Burwash, East Sussex, and had a solo exhibition at the Towner Art Gallery, East Bourne, which included his commissioned painting “The Enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury” (Dr Donald Coggan), now at King’s School. Between 1942 and 1983 William exhibited widely. Venues included The New English Art Club, Royal Academy, Royal West of England Academy, and Haworth Gallery in Accrington and the Upper Grosvenor Galleries and Christopher Hull Galleries in London. In 1986 he was part of an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery – Artists Painting 1935 – 1955, and in 1994 he was represented at two separate exhibitions of war paintings at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and at Barcelona

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