Thanks to one of our parents, we have been able to make our first big tree trunk impact on the school oval. We have some work ahead to properly secure these into the ground so that they may be well used and also safe for use. We need a few parents who have ideas...

Here's a message from our Sports Day Captains: This year we have chosen to have a superheroes theme for our annual sports day. The reason we have picked this theme is because we know that students are very interested in superheroes and may spend at lot of time...

Once again this year teachers from Years 1-5 have been engaged Footsteps Dance Studios in a 5 week block of weekly dance lessons for students. Teachers intentions were to use this program as a multipurpose opportunity for students to be active but also to develop...

Every year as part of our Annual Report to the school community, we include information collected from parents about the organisation and running of the school. We gain this information from a survey of randomly selected parents. This has traditionally been a paper...

Here at Woodend we have a Healthy Eating Committee. At our first committee meeting for the year, we worked on defining our purpose and directions. This is our purpose: Healthy eating and drinking at Woodend Primary School is about improving the health and...

Thank you Steve Smith for generously spending outside school hours time to move soil and rocks. Steve is one of our great grounds committee members. We are passionate about creating wonderful natural play space for our students. In a recent blog post we...

Hi, My name is Lyn Klinkert and I have been a Relief and Contract Teacher at Woodend for 20 years. I have taught in the Library, The Arts, PE and been a class teacher from Receptions to Yr 7. This term I am lucky enough to have the Design and Technology role while...

We know that strong communication between home and school is one of the best ways for students to be successful at school. We also know that, with increasingly busy lives, this can be difficult to achieve. We would like to make this as simple as possible! We have...

Part of our review of our emergency procedures and communication processes this year includes a new system of notifying parents when there has been an emergency situation at the school. This has always been a difficult task as the logistics of individually...

Would you have any of these items to donate? We have conducted an audit on our playboxes and play areas and found several play items that we would appreciate adding to our play. If you have any of these pre loved household items to donate that are safe, clean and...