The One Plan is an online personalised learning plan that contains information to support your child’s inclusion and achievement at school. It is a working document that is reviewed and updated throughout the year. The One Plan replaces a range of different ...

Dear families, Week 4 is here and we are almost at full capacity again in relation to student attendance. Only a handful of students were working from home last week and we anticipate that this will reduce over the next week or so. As I mentioned last time, now...

Dear families, Our next Pupil Free Day is scheduled for Friday June 5th, The three Pupil Free days remaining after that are about to go to Governing Council for approval and then will be shared directly after that. Kind regards, Steve Freeman Principal

Dear families, As we approach week three, some restrictions in the wider community are being relaxed, which is good news. As a school we will continue to follow our existing protocols to ensure safety for all. These are clearly outlined in previous Blog Posts....

This year the Premiers Reading Challenge are again offering the ‘PRC STEM Challenge’ for any students that may be interested In conjunction with Inspiring SA, we are pleased to offer schools the opportunity to participate in the PRC STEM Challenge for 2020! The...

Issue 3 Scholastic Book Club for Term 2. We are again running Book Club for Term 2, with just a few adjustments to allow for the current COVID19 restrictions. Orders this term will only be taken through Scholastic’s LOOP system, payments will not be able to be paid...

Dear families, As we head into week two, there have been additional announcements by Education and Health authorities, indicating that it is safe to send children to school. Given that we have put into place many strategies at Woodend Primary School to keep both...

Dear families, As we are seeing more students coming back to school, we are also seeing more adults in the yard. It is important that adults in our school remember to socially distance so that we can maintain a safe environment for all. A reminder that this means...

Dear families, Here we are at the close of day three of week one of our online learning program. It has been a very interesting three days and we have had to maintain a highly flexible approach as we have learnt a lot about the plusses and minuses of having an...

Dear families, Dr Spurrier's letter to parents and to teachers was unexpected but not surprising given the lowered rate of infection that we have been able to achieve as a state. She has been clear in saying that it is safe for children to return to school. In...

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I hope you all have a special Easter& school holidays, throughout these challenging and uncertain times with the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID19). In spending a lot more time at home, you and your families hopefully have been able to come together creating...

Dear Families, What a lot has happened in only a few short weeks. On behalf of all our staff at Woodend, I would like to say a huge thank you to all of our front line people, the doctors, specialists, researchers, nurses, cleaners etc who work closely with COVID-19...

As at 2nd April we had 257 families respond. Quite a number still to go. Please let others know to complete the survey. Thankyou. Dear Families, I am attaching a link to a Survey that we are required to send out, asking about how readily students can participate in...

With school closures looming, parents are understandably anxious about the challenges of educating their children from home, as well as the difficulties this might pose for their children. QUT researcher Dr Rebecca English is an expert in home education and...

Dear Families, The COVID-19 situation is changing every aspect of lives as we know it. I particularly want to extend my thoughts and best wishes to those of you who have been directly affected by the COVID-19 situation, whether it be work or family related. This is...

As the number of diagnosed corona viruses is increasing, so is the level of anxiety amongst children and the broader community. Please find attached some useful guides to support families to manage coronavirus anxiety provided by the Australian Psychological...

Notice from CommBank School Banking The health, safety and wellbeing of our communities and our people is our first priority. Due to the rapidly developing situation with coronavirus, School Banking has been temporarily paused from 20 March 2020 until the start of...

  In our learning programs we wish to be taking bigger steps towards really valuing diversity and harnessing the advantages that respecting all may bring. While we do explore the many international cultures that make up a modern Australia and Woodend of 2020,...

Hello to all Woodend Parents & Carers – welcome to another exciting year at our school! I would like to invite you to attend the Woodend Primary School Annual General Meeting. The AGM is an opportunity to learn more about the work being done here at Woodend...

Thank you for supporting our SRC fundraiser today. The event was a huge success with more that $700 raised for the Red Cross and lots of fun times enjoyed across the school. Some of the ways the Red Cross support the most vulnerable people in our local communities...

Dear parents/caregivers, We are coming up to the end of the term, and the beginning of another Vacation Care program, which will be able to accommodate our brand-new receptions as from the beginning of care in January as they are then officially enrolled in our...

Congratulations to the 3 Woodend students who have represented Southern Valley over the last 3 days in the Tennis State Sapsasa Carnival. Southern Valley competed in the division 5 competition and were able to win their division. In 2024 Southern Valley will now be...

Come dressed in clothes from your favourite decade and help raise money for a community charity. SRC are hosting a Decade Dance Party to raise money for the Red Cross in the lead up to the Holiday Season. On the day we will have music & dancing in the new...

Vacation Care News

Woodend Produce Market (WEDNESDAY 22ND NOVEMBER) - will be outside Room 3 in our newly created Market stand. We will be selling fresh produce from our school garden. The goods are harvested by students from the Woodend Garden Program. This is market is organised...

Congratulations to the 21 Woodend students competed today in an NRL competition at West Beach. Both the boys and girls team had great success throughout the day and played really well. They worked hard and had lots of great results. At the end of the day the girls...

Congratulations to the year 6 Woodend boys Charlie, Billy and Patrick who have represented Southern Valley in the division 3 State Cricket Carnival this week. They played in a 3 day carnival and had both individual and team success. The team was able to go through...

Towards the end of term 2, we conducted the second of our Bully Audits for 2023 with all year 3-6 students. This audit showed that around 75% of our students understood what bullying is and what it isn't. We trust that our recent Bully Zero workshops will have...

There is no safe threshold to missing school School attendance is compulsory and students are expected to: attend school every day the school is open arrive at school and to all lessons and activities on time participate positively in all learning activities. On...

Dear families, I have been contacted by the Marion Council who were asked during our recent Sports Day by a local resident to come and check the illegal parking behaviour by a number of people. Unfortunately, we, like many other schools struggle with street...

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