The Everyone Belongs shirts have arrived! Congratulations to Danika, your design is very effective and looks fantastic on the finished product. What a great thing to be recognising that we are all different and come from different backgrounds and cultures, and we...

The Christmas Event is a giant family picnic on the school oval beginning at 6.00pm. Performances throughout the evening are all just for fun and the evening concludes with fireworks once the sky is dark. Parents Please Note: This is a family event and we...

Congratulations to our Jump Team High Velocity! They were amazing today and dominated the 2018 Jump Championships at Priceline Stadium. Many thanks to Mr Z, Mrs Sheppard, all members of the Jump team and all who attended and helped out. Mr Z, Mrs Sheppard and the...

As you may have heard in the news, the Australian Education Union (AEU) and State Government are in negotiations centred around the enterprise agreement that school staff work under. The current agreement has expired and a new agreement needs to be put in place...

Since Week 7 of Term 3 our senior students have enjoyed taking part in a Touch Rugby Tournament every Friday afternoon. There were 9 teams for both the boys and girls. Thanks to Mr Natar for managing the tournament and to the Committee who helped to organise and...

Our End Of Year Celebration Night is fast approaching! Here is what you may like to purchase on the night for a tasty meal, beverage and/or treat. These items will be prepared by our school Canteen staff and the money raised goes to support our Canteen. [embeddoc...

End of Year Reports will go home with students on the last Wednesday of term along with information about class placement for 2019. Reports Teachers use a range of different assessment strategies and tools to gather evidence of student achievement with reference to...

A Casual Clothes Day has been organised for Friday 7th December. This has been organised to raise money to fund the fireworks for our School Community End-Of-Year Celebration Night on Monday 10th December beginning at 6pm. We are looking forward to another big...

From next year, our school is able to access an ensemble music program through the Department for Education's Instrumental Music Service. This means that students who will be in year 5 and 6 next year will have the opportunity to begin FREE Instrumental Music...

Week 5 - Term 4 - PE WEEK 12th – 16th November 2018 Physical Education Week is a celebration of health and wellbeing; being active, learning about how to look after ourselves and encouraging our school community to take the chance to get outside and enjoy some...

What a great day at Glenelg for the Beach Volleyball competition for our Woodend students! We had a large number of volleyballers, experienced and new, and all students put in a positive effort. A special mention to all those students who were representing the...

Our Remembrance Day assembly this morning was a lovely commemoration of those who have lost their lives in the service of their country during the war.Thank you to parents who came to the assembly this morning. Seth, Abby, Aidan, Hannah, Shanel and Ruby did a...

Remembrance Day Assembly Friday 9th November (as the 11th falls on a Sunday) 11:10 am to approx 11:30 am On the Netball Court next to our 3 Flag Poles All are welcome to attend. A short ceremony of Remembrance will take place with the laying of a wreath and the...

Thank you to all Woodend students, staff, and families for helping to make the 2018 Colour Run an incredible event and fundraiser. Thanks to your effort, we've raised over $15,000 for new playground equipment & nature play at Woodend! This is the best...

Would you like to know more about Pedal Prix at Woodend? Does your son or daughter show interest in: racing? tinkering or learning about the mechanics or motion of vehicles? cooperating with others in a team taking appropriate risks? having fun with families and...

Hosting a Japanese student is a wonderful experience for your family. It is an opportunity to have first hand exposure to Japanese people and culture as well as share Australian life with a Japanese student, offering them a memorable Australian experience. And we...

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SPORTS DISCO Friday, 21 June 2019 Years R – 7 6:00pm – 7:30pm Dress Attire – Neat DJ Playing all the Greatest Hits Drink Included NO GLOWSTICKS Disco is fully supervised by Staff and Sports C’tee No Students will be let out of the Gym without a Parent or Guardian...

As mentioned in a previous post, we had 2 teams from Woodend place 1st and 2nd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September, last term. For the second year the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of SA held a State Hiragana Competition, inviting...

With the spring weather here, the canteen have some ideas of recess or lunch play munchies. These items - fruit jelly, strawberry or chocolate mousse, fresh fruit or fruit Quelches are all only $1.00! The pizza is also a popular lunch choice with students. There...

Teachers and SSOs will be at school working on Reading

This year, 82 year sevens will complete their primary schooling at Woodend. They have had a very busy year which will culminate with our graduation ceremony on Thursday, December 13th (week 9). This year, with so many students graduating, we have decided to move...

Recently, the government has confirmed that year 7 public school students will be taught in high school from term 1, 2022. The move will align South Australia’s public schools with the national curriculum taught in high schools making it easier to deliver subjects...

In Room 17, students have a great deal of power over their learning. They need this power, and investigations into how students learn best have indicated that they actually crave it. This makes sense, after all the students are the greatest stakeholders in their...

Day 4 and 5 of STEAM Week saw the Year 6/7 and 5/6 students working with Dr Justin Chalker, a Science Lecturer at Flinders University. It was also the launch of our STEAM Expo on the Thursday evening and a full day of Expo displays, performances, interactive...

What an exciting time for our school! On Thursday we launched our first ever Woodend Primary School Virtual Art Gallery, affectionately named "The WAG" - Woodend Art Gallery. The official launch took place in our gym at the STEAM Expo by our Chair of Governing...

On Thursday we welcomed back Dr Justin Chalker, to our school for STEAM Week. Dr Chalker is a Science lecturer and Chemist at Flinders University and has been to each Science Week at Woodend teaching and inspiring students about scientific phenomena. He worked...

Last term the teachers of the Year 4/5 students worked with teachers from the Australian Maths and Science School (ASMS) to plan a STEAM challenge for the students. The challenge was for students to build the tallest free-standing tower using spaghetti and...

The Woodend year 5/6 Boys Sapsasa Soccer team competed in round 1 of the Statewide Schools Soccer competition today at Concordia College. Game 1 vs Woocroft Primary School. The team played a great first half and were able to score 3 goals (Mali 2 goals, Jacob 1...

REMINDER: EARLY FINISH School will finish at 2:05pm On Friday 7 July 2023. OSHC will begin earlier to accomodate this finish...

As a parent or guardian, you will receive two written reports each year about your child's progress at school. These reports are designed to help you understand how your child is doing academically and how the school is supporting their development. Teachers plan,...

Congratulations to the 7 Woodend girls who represented Southern Valley at the State Metropolitan Netball Carnival last week. Unfortunately Adilyn was sick and unable to play in the carnival. The girls played very well and had excellent team success throughout the...

In preparation for our move to an online uniform shop with Belgravia Apparel (see previous post) we have some limited uniform items we have discounted. Please see the Uniform Sale tab on Qkr for details, there will be no refunds or size swapping on sale items.

Beginning in term 3 all of our wearable school uniform items (excluding hats) will be available direct from the manufacturer, Belgravia Apparel. Belgravia Apparel will be more equipped to keep up with the increased demand of uniform stock we have been experiencing,...

Yesterday, Sunday 18th June, fourteen of our students rode our new "KAPOW" Pedal Prix car around Victoria Park racecourse. The car looked very modern with it's new signage!. This was the second race for this year and the team got off to a good start! For some of...

Woodend has been abuzz with various environmental projects taking place in the past few weeks. Youth Environmental Leaders Project Our SRC Leadership team have again been invited to join the Green Adelaide Youth Environmental Leaders Program. This program offers...

5 brave Woodend students competed today representing Southern Valley in the State Cross Country Championships at the Oakbank racecourse. It was wet, muddy and freezing cold up and they all did a great job. Leni, Finn and Billy were back running again this year as...

Parents and carers of children and young people with disability are invited to a parent forum on Monday 19th June 2023. In this forum you will have the opportunity to hear about Special Options processes and managing transition changes For more information got...

This week students at Woodend Primary School have been learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in honour of Reconciliation Week. All students across the school have been involved in a range of learning experiences such as studying Indigenous...