Congratulations to the following 7 students: Thomas, Tamsyn, Zoe, Lilly, Ava, Georgia and Jayden who represented our Southern Valley district at the State Metro Championships. To gain a place into the district team they all competed representing Woodend in a local...

Year 5, 6 and 7 students have an additional opportunity to be active and social through the establishment of a weekly walking group. Students who have local walks consent will walk and talk their way around the around the local neighbourhood at lunch time on...

Thursday night was anther lovely night where over 100 children, parents and staff enjoyed a BBQ dinner together with our Myojo visitors. Thanks to our host families, who are extremely generous with their time and care for the children they are hosting. We thank...

The Woodend School Way2Go committee are working on improving the safety of walking and riding to school. The Survey below will help our committee to gather further information in support of the push for improved facilities for student's bikes and scooters. We hope...

Friday the 24th of March turned out to be a warm and great day for our annual whole school sports day event. We would like to acknowledge the outstanding efforts from all volunteers who gave up their time to make the day a great success. The 16 Sports Day Captains...

Today we had a Welcome Assembly for our Myojo visitors. This year is our 11th year of association with Myojo School in Japan and we enjoyed reacquainting with Jun and his staff as Jun has been one of the founders of the Woodend/Myojo program. We were introduced...

For some of you, the time has come to start thinking about high schools. Please find below, a list of local schools and their open night times. These were also sent home with students last week. [embeddoc...

Once again we saw several near accidents around the school this morning. The NO STANDING area directly across from the staff carpark on Edward Beck Drive was a particular problem with many cars holding up traffic in their attempt to park here. This caused traffic...

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We had special visitors from Japan this week- Natsue sensei and Akihiro sensei. Year 4 students had an experience with Japanese calligraphy (shuuji しゅうじ）, Y3 students enjoyed making a Japanese spinning top （makigomaまきごま）and Reception students did paper dying...