Reminding our Woodend community of the support we are offering the Heart Foundation. We ask that students fundraise and/or make a donation towards this charity. Money raised goes towards valuable heart research. A sponsorship form went home a fortnight ago and...

Our group of 16 students and 3 staff are really enjoying this Japanese experience. We have been very warmly welcomed by Myojo host families, students and staff. Below are some shots from our adventure so far. More will be posted later in our trip. Host families...

  Don't miss this great film opportunity. Builds on important work in classes around gender stereotypes and self image. Here's what we published three weeks ago: On Wednesday 14 September at 6:30 pm in the Gym, our Parent Network is hosting a movie night...

We were treated to many quality performances from our Woodend students at Music Night on Wednesday evening. In many different rooms around our school, families could listen to flutes, clarinets, keyboards, brass, guitars, recorders, violins and drums. During the...

Would you like to be involved in our Room 19 fundraisers for different charities? MND Foundation is one of these charities. BEEZ Trolley Handle Covers Our business, BEEZ sells trolley handle covers to prevent catching germs from trolley handles. The product comes...

Rooms 23 and 24 have been buzzing with action over the last few weeks leading into Book Week. We designed and created storyboards and used Beebots to re-tell our favourite fairytales with our buddies. We looked at the characters, settings and sequence of our...

He hope that having the 4 day break (school is closed 5&6 September) is another opportunity to clear some of the illness we have in the school community. These past 2 weeks we have had large numbers of students absent each day due to illness. We send our best...

In Maths we have been discussing and learning how to recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays. Some of the fun activities we undertook in our learning was making arrays of sunshine, we learnt a memory game and made cereal...

On 4 September our group of 16 senior students heads off with Sarah Vinall, Brian Marshall and Vicki Gregory on a wonderful learning adventure. For about two weeks they will experience life in Tokyo, attend school in Myojo Gakuen and be hosted by Myojo families....

On Wednesday of week 5, in Rooms 1 and 2 Murray from World of Maths set up lots of maths\science activities for all the year 4 and 5s to work on. Murray first talked to us about how we use maths in everyday life, such as playing basketball requires knowledge of...

Many know by now that I have announced I will be retiring at the end of this year. After 14 years as principal at this wonderful school and a 40 year career in education, I have decided it is time to retire from full time work. It has been difficult for me to...