Sports Day will be held on Friday, 23 March More details to follow.

Meet our Teachers and other Parents and Caregivers (and students) Tuesday, 13 February 2018 While teachers have already met quite a number of parents and caregivers, we do look forward to having the opportunity on Acquaintance Night to meet with all...

  This week we have had ten young and enthusiastic Korean initial teacher education students from Gyeongin National University visit our school to work-shadow teachers. This has been quite an experience for our eager students as well as for the Korean...

This year, all classrooms will have a class Facebook group. These pages have been created as a way to improve communication between school and home. Although each class will differ slightly, the idea is to use these groups to post reminders and updates about what...

Last year we sent out an expression of interest form to families of students from year 3 for an indication of which students might like to take on musical instrument lessons with a private provider through our school. There was a lot of interest and we are...

After School Sports is once again available to students. Forms can be found in the school office or you may like to check online on the school website. Sports available are: Auskick Reception – Year 2 Kanga Cricket Year 2 - 3 AFL...

A little info for new and current parents regarding the Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program run by Parent Network members at Woodend Primary School. School Banking will start for 2018 on Wednesday the 31st January, and will take place every Wednesday of the...

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The school year has begun very well if today is anything to go by. All of our new Reception children were taken on tours of the school in order to familiarise themselves with where everything is (or at least the important parts of the school). Children R-7 were...

A sincere welcome back to all our Woodend families and we look forward to another positive and productive year ahead. We would like to welcome all new families to our school and trust you enjoy being part of our community. Parents/carers from the new 2018...

End of Year Reports will go home with students this this Wednesday along with information about class placement for 2018. Teachers have invested many hours moderating evidence of student learning, assigning grades and writing comments to communicate...

Isaiah competed at the Pacific Games in Adelaide last week, representing South Australia in the high jump. He jumped a personal best in the competition of 1.61m and finished fourth in the country for 12 year old boys. Isaiah learnt to high jump at school, he has no...

END OF TERM DISMISSAL is at 2.05pm on Friday. The 2017 school year is rapidly drawing to a close. This week is the last week of our school year and as always, it will be a busy one. Monday is our Annual School Community Christmas Event and the weather forecast is...

Important Parking Note: Please do not park on any part of the school grounds or the bunting area for the fire truck. Adherence to these restrictions will ensure we have enough safety clearance to go ahead with the fireworks. Program 6:30 pm: Welcome 6:30 pm:...

2018 Sports Day Update We would like to say thank you to our school community for engaging and sharing feedback regarding our Sports Day. We have had lots of great feedback from staff, students, parents and as a result of this we are pleased to announce the...

On Tuesday 28 November, I attended a Marion Council Meeting to present to council information about the traffic, parking, and safety concerns we experience around Woodend School. My 5 minute presentation was focused, first and foremost, on the safety of the...

Once again this year as, a school community we are always generous and give to the less fortunate and those families who are struggling. If you are able to donate a food item or maybe a toy our tree in the school office is waiting to be filled. Donations can be...

Dear parents/caregivers, We are seeking your creative ideas about what the $5,000,000 might do for our school.   Below is a short survey to enable you to feedback to us any thoughts and ideas that you may have that could help us to ensure the best outcome for...

Woodend Annual School Community Christmas Event Monday 11 December 2017 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...

This week, Parent Network held an open meeting to share information and answer questions about our community initiatives. Parent Network has the aim to build our community, to support the students and the school, and to help with communication and engagement....

The Parent Network would like to thank all students for participating in School Banking this year. This is a wonderful initiative that teaches children to save as well as creates fundraising money for our school. Throughout the school we have at total of 259...

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As mentioned in a previous post, (read here) we had 2 teams from Woodend place 1st and 3rd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September. This year the Japanese Language Teachers' Association of SA held the first State Hiragana Competition, inviting...

At this time of the year we know that there will generally be a number of staff who will not be at the school in 2018. The following gives a brief summary of this as we know it now of staff for whom retirement is the reason for moving on. Six staff are retiring at...

Help our school to raise valuable funds with the School Community Rewards Insurance Challenge! All it takes is 25 new insurance policies – for example that could be 9 families taking out cover on their home building, contents and family car – and the school will...

REMINDER: EARLY FINISH School will finish at 2:05pm On Friday 16th December 2022. OSHC will begin earlier to accomodate this finish...

Thank You Firstly, a big thank you for all of the workers who made last night a great success. Our teachers, students, canteen staff and helpers plus sound technician and all those people who helped by putting our bins in place and ensuring that afterwards...

  6:30 Announcements 6:35 Lily, Stephanie, Lianna, Sophie, Gabby, Ava National Anthem 6:40 Xzavier - Room 09 Texas Rock 6:45 Students - Room 25 Santa Tell Me 6:50 Room 04 Reindeer Hokey Pokey 6:55 Kindy Performance Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes / Taba Naba...

We have valued and appreciated the strong level of community support throughout 2022. Our volunteers have again worked so hard this year, generously giving their time, energy and ideas for the benefit of our school. It may be organising or helping out in...

Congratulations to our year 2 classes who presented their assemblies for our school community today. Room 6 & Room 24 https://youtu.be/91i3rYi2UDE Room 8 & Room 30...

Update for Concert and Fireworks - more information about the Super Family Event. Please note that the Canteen BBQ is meat sausages, along with onion and bread. If you are unable to eat meat sausages, I suggest bringing other food to eat for tea. While there will...

A Casual Clothes Day has been organised for Wednesday the 7th of December (Week 8) to help raise money for the fireworks for our End-Of-Year Celebration Night. We love having the fireworks to celebrate with our Woodend Community. Each year we try to fund the...

Congratulations to our year 4 and year 4/5 classes who presented their assembly for our school community today. Room 1 & Room 2 https://youtu.be/XN2azWnOs3E Room 9 & Room 10...

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Some keen student gardeners have been nurturing this carrot in our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden. This carrot, seemed to growing to be quite a size, although not as easy to measure whilst growing underground. Last Wednesday 9/11 was the time for the long...

STATE BASKETBALL During last month the Year 5/6 girls Basketball team competed against some strong opposition in the State finals and we are very proud of their efforts. They all deserve commendation for making it this far in Basketball. Game 2 - we played Eastern...

Dear families, as you are hearing on the news, many schools have no power and will not one open on Monday. However we do have power and so we will be open as usual in the morning. Unless something untoward happens during the night, please consider school at Woodend...