End of Term Early Dismissal Friday 29 September
This Friday is the last day of term 3 and students will be dismissed at 2.05pm. Term 3 has flown by and has been packed with varied learning experiences for our students. Three bus loads of 130 year 6/7 students and staff set of for Canberra this morning after a...
Music Night 2017
Many thanks to our instrumental music students and teachers who treated us with a variety of musical performances last Tuesday evening. In different rooms around our school, families enjoyed performances on flute, clarinet, keyboard, brass, guitar and drums....
Let’s start thinking Science!
SCIENCE WEEK EXPO Thursday 19/10/17 6 - 7pm & Friday 20/10/17 9.00am - 3.00pm Have you started thinking about Science for our Science Expo? The Expo encourages parents and children to have fun and together, become scientists. We look forward to seeing...
Farewell Venetta
Venetta has been a valued member of our OSHC team for 8 years now and it is with great sadness, that we farewell her on Friday. Venetta is starting a new journey into aged care and we wish her nothing but happiness. Venetta has seen so many of our OSHC children...
Tonight’s School Disco
Just a quick blog to say how impressed I am with the students at the disco tonight. They are having a great deal of fun and should sleep well when they get home. They were all so keen while waiting to go inside the gym and as parents will attest, quite noisy and...
INTER SCHOOL HIRAGANA READING COMPETITION SUCCESS
On Wednesday September 13th, Woodend took 4 teams to Woodcroft PS to compete in the 14th annual Hiragana Reading Competition. After holding run offs here at school, our 4 teams had been practicing every day, getting ready to compete against 7 other schools from the...
Woodend are on their way to Canberra
On Monday, 25 September students from our school will soon be heading to Canberra for an education tour of the National Capital. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture,...
SAPSASA Volleyball State Finals
On Wednesday the 13th of September our school competed in the Volleyball State Finals competition at Mars Sporting Complex. We had 15 year 6/7 students which involved one girls team and 2 boys teams. These teams performed very well at the metropolitan competition...
Science Week is looming!
Monday 16 - Friday 20 October 2017 (Term 4 Week 1) is Woodend's celebration of all things Science. Our Science Week provides opportunities for students to enjoy and develop an understanding of important science concepts and processes and the applications in our...
Ready to play in the outdoor shops!
In between showers on the morning of Thursday 7 September, we celebrated the official opening of the Outdoor Shop Fronts. The students had the opportunity to meet members of the Grounds Committee who were instrumental in making the shops. These members worked...
SAPSASA Southern Valley District Athletics Day
On Wednesday 6th of September our school competed in the Southern Valley District Athletics Day at Santos Stadium. 40 students from year 4-7 attended the day and represented our school in a great way. We competed against 11 other schools in the Southern Valley...
MUSIC NIGHT
Our Music Night will be held on Tuesday, 19 September. This year we will be continuing with our previous format, using three areas to help keep the night moving along at an entertaining pace. 5:30pm - 6:30pm Paul Henson has arranged for most of his guitar students...
YEAR 7 HIRAGANA CHALLENGE RUNOFFS
Each year schools from the district compete in an Inter school Hiragana Challenge. This involves Year 7 students, competing in teams of 4, to show their knowledge of the Japanese alphabet. We have had much success in the past. This year we are able to take 4 teams...
Sports School Disco
Schools Sports Disco Years R – 7 6:00pm – 8:00pm Friday, 15 September in the Gym $5.00 per ticket Dress Attire – Neat and Casual Playing all the greatest hits Drink included Tickets on sale in the meeting room from Monday, 11 September from 8.30am-8.55am...
Whole School “DESIGN A-THON”
Whole School Fundraiser for Week 8 this term Monday, 11 September - Friday, 15 September Have you started to collect sponsors? Please collect as many sponsors as you can. Sponsorship forms have gone home...more forms are available...
SAPSASA Volleyball
Twenty five Year 6/7 students from our school competed in the SAPSASA Volleyball competition on Monday the 28th of August at Marion Fitness and Leisure Centre. We had 5 teams who competed in a round robin competition throughout the day. All teams played 4 games and...
Book Week Parade 2017 – “Escape to Everywhere”
What a great turnout for our Book Week Parade, despite the cold weather. There were so many fantastic costumes worn by students, staff, parents, friends and the Kindy kids, which made our parade very special....as we Escaped to Everywhere. Thank you for your...
OSHC Bookings for Pupil Free Day
Friday 1st September and 22nd September are Pupil Free Days at Woodend. If you require care on these days, bookings for OSHC are available now. Regards, The OSHC Team
Book Week at OSHC
We certainly do have an exciting week planned to celebrate the theme "Escape to Everywhere". Staff will bring in their favorite childhood books (mine being "There is a Hippopotamus on the roof eating cake" and "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.") and it...
How do we listen to student’s feedback in a classroom? Come and Join in to a Parent Workshop – snack provided – good company
Please note that there are only 25 places available at each workshop. The first Workshop has now ended and so registration can be made for the next available date at this stage. If you would like to utilise the offer of a Creche, please let Kerri know at...
Governing Council News… Fun with Maths
- At our August Governing Council meeting we were very lucky to have Mrs Whelan and a few of her students along present to us on the learning they are doing in their 6/7 class. Max, Tyler, Cooper B., Rhiley, Danika, and Blanka shared with the council how...
Spring Market Day | Oct 29
SAVE THE DATE! The WOODEND SPRING MARKET DAY will take place on Sunday October 29th. We will once again have marquee spaces, table spaces, and car boot spaces available for booking. The Parent Network runs a fantastic canteen, with hot and cold drinks, sausage...
Wellbeing and Engagement Collection
Students in our school have been invited to take part in a data collection. The data collection process will take place this week at school. Purpose of the data collection Young people’s sense of wellbeing is an important part of their development and how they...
SAPSASA Basketball
On Thursday 10th of August a team of 10 boys represented our school at the Sapsasa Basketball Championships. Our team played 6 games throughout the round robin competition. We went down by 4 points in game 1 of the day against Victor Harbor who ended up winning the...
Planning for Science Week
At Woodend, we see science as an ideal way to grow our students’ curiosity and creativity as well as strengthening scientific and mathematical thinking. The success of our Science Week in Term 4 last year, was a testament to our commitment to grow science within...
Room 4 – Our Chicken Adventure
While the students of Woodend Primary were all settling into their first day of Term 3, the children of Room 4 were already busy at work, witnessing a baby chick pipping out of it’s egg, right in front of their eyes. Over the course of week one, they saw another 11...
Funding Boost to Schools
$67.5 million funding boost to accelerate student achievement The State Government will provide a $67.5m funding boost to public school students who have been identified as needing more help to lift literacy and numeracy across the state. Primary school students...
Exciting things happening at OSHC
What a wonderful start to my new Director's position I have had over these past few weeks. Lots of warm messages from the children and parents. Jackie has been enjoying creating the program each week with the help of many enthusiastic kids! This weeks theme is...
Credit Union SA Schools Community Rewards Program Presents “Raising Kids With Grit”
Free Seminar for Parents and Teachers, Wednesday 30 August Credit Union SA’s School Community Rewards is giving back to SA’s school communities by presenting a seminar with author and mentor Bill Hansberry – ‘Being the best Resilience Coach for your kids so they...
Here’s a sneak peak at what has been happening in our garden!
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...
October and November SAPSASA News!
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...
Woodend School Open on Monday – we still have power following the storm
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...
PARENT FORUM – services and support available for children and young people (Helen Connolly, Commissioner for Children & Young People)
Parent Forum The Parent Forums are an initiative established to inform and engage parents or carers about the services and support available for children and young people with a disability and to provide an opportunity to listen to the voices of their families. The...
Sports Thank You evening
It is time to recognise our parent/carer volunteers involved in Sport. For all our amazing parents/carers who have supported our students with any sport, taking on a role of regularly: coordinating managing a team transporting students umpiring scoring coaching You...
A host of opportunities on offer for students through Festival of Music
Over the coming weeks, Festival of Music are holding auditions for many of the great opportunities they offer for students through their concert series. Please refer to the post below for more information. For students currently in years 4 and 5 who are interested...
State Hiragana Reading Competition 2022
As mentioned in a previous post, https://woodendprimaryschool.edublogs.org/2022/09/15/southern-district-hiragana-reading-competition-success/ we had 2 teams from Woodend place 1st and 2nd in the district Hiragana Reading Competition in September, last term. The...
Sports Day News from Woodies Goodies Canteen
Here is all you need to know about Sports Day from our friendly canteen staff: *** Sports Day Friday 11th November 2022 *** The Sports Day Sausage Sizzle is back!!! So too are drinks and treats! These are the items that are available and can be ordered on QKR:...
Principal’s News – 31st October 2022
Dear Families, Colour Run A special thankyou to everyone who helped out with the Colour Run last Friday. Your efforts means that from a Fundraising perspective, it was the largest amount raised in Fundraising memory. Just over $41,000 was raised which after...
Calm Kid Central FREE Webinars
Learn to support your primary school aged child with worry, frustration, managing impulses and tricky behaviour. Zoom into 1 or all 3webinars – 1 hr duration for FREE. 1)Wednesday 26th of October 2022 at 7pm (Adelaide) - “Calm and Confident Kids”- learn to help...
Year 3 Assembly Recordings
Congratulations to our Year 3 students who presented their assembly for our school community today. While it was a smaller audience due to JP swimming, our students showed creativity and confidence as they showcased their STEAM Week learning. It is wonderful to see...