You will soon notice that we have a new 'Koala' crossing in Edward Beck Drive. A 'Koala' crossing has flashing lights as opposed to the current 'Emu' crossing where student put the flags out. The 'Emu' crossing will remain on Young St. Monitors have had training in...

What a fabulous 9 days we had with our visiting Myojo friends. The students were welcomed into our classrooms and made to feel very welcome. They enjoyed Sports Day, an excursion to the Adelaide Central Market with the Year 6/7 classes, bush dancing with Ms...

It’s that time of the year to finalise teams for the upcoming 2017 School Netball Season, so this is your last chance for your child to nominate to play. All girls and boys from Year 2 to Year 7 are eligible to play. Games start in Term 2, week 2, Tuesday 9th May...

Week 7, the Year 5's went to Aquatics at Port Noarlunga. One day the weather was cool and the other day was perfect. We went on the bus and participated in safety talks, boogie boarding and swimming but unfortunately the weather made the water murky so we did not...

Congratulations to the following 7 students: Thomas, Tamsyn, Zoe, Lilly, Ava, Georgia and Jayden who represented our Southern Valley district at the State Metro Championships. To gain a place into the district team they all competed representing Woodend in a local...

Year 5, 6 and 7 students have an additional opportunity to be active and social through the establishment of a weekly walking group. Students who have local walks consent will walk and talk their way around the around the local neighbourhood at lunch time on...

Thursday night was anther lovely night where over 100 children, parents and staff enjoyed a BBQ dinner together with our Myojo visitors. Thanks to our host families, who are extremely generous with their time and care for the children they are hosting. We thank...

The Woodend School Way2Go committee are working on improving the safety of walking and riding to school. The Survey below will help our committee to gather further information in support of the push for improved facilities for student's bikes and scooters. We hope...

Friday the 24th of March turned out to be a warm and great day for our annual whole school sports day event. We would like to acknowledge the outstanding efforts from all volunteers who gave up their time to make the day a great success. The 16 Sports Day Captains...

Today we had a Welcome Assembly for our Myojo visitors. This year is our 11th year of association with Myojo School in Japan and we enjoyed reacquainting with Jun and his staff as Jun has been one of the founders of the Woodend/Myojo program. We were introduced...

For some of you, the time has come to start thinking about high schools. Please find below, a list of local schools and their open night times. These were also sent home with students last week. [embeddoc...

Once again we saw several near accidents around the school this morning. The NO STANDING area directly across from the staff carpark on Edward Beck Drive was a particular problem with many cars holding up traffic in their attempt to park here. This caused traffic...

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We had special visitors from Japan this week- Natsue sensei and Akihiro sensei. Year 4 students had an experience with Japanese calligraphy (shuuji しゅうじ）, Y3 students enjoyed making a Japanese spinning top （makigomaまきごま）and Reception students did paper dying...

Spikezone is our modified version of Volleyball designed especially for primary school students aged between 8 and 13 years. The modifications include: A smaller sized court (13 metres by 6.5 metres) A lower net height (2 metres) A softer and lighter ball Less...

  Have you spotted some new features in our school yard? If you haven't seen, you may have heard some music in the Plaza! With thanks to parent, Brett Simes, we now have a drum to beat in the garden of the Plaza. Brett made this out of a gas cylinder and the...

With Sports day fast approaching Friday, 27 March, the Pedal Prix team will have our annual cake stall. We are after donations of cakes and cupcakes of all sizes and shapes for the day ! If you can help that would be awesome - simply deliver to the stall on the...

Woodend Primary School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students. School Banking is a fun, interactive and engaging way for young Australians to learn about money and develop good savings habits. Children who deposit money...

On March 8 Woodend School was proud to host Mark LeMessurier - a popular speaker, educator, parenting coach, and counseller - as he presented to us his session on Dealing With BIG Feelings: Coaching Kids to Manage Anger to Anxiety and everything in between. There...

Our AUTUMN Market Day will be held on Sunday May 7 from 9am - 1pm. It is open to the entire community - book in a stall or attend on the day! Coffee + Cold Drinks Sausage Sizzle Fairy Floss Baked Goods FREE Bouncy Castle Buskers Market Stalls Car Boot Stalls Please...

NOTICE: student banking DAY CHANGE Student banking will now take place on WEDNESDAYS. Please send in your student banking wallet each Wednesday starting this week: Wednesday March 8. Bec, our Commonwealth School Banking rep, will be at the school on Thurs 16th...

Our School Netball Registrations are currently open and will be closing on Friday 31st March 2017 All girls and boys from Year 2 to Year 7 are eligible to play. If you’re child would like to nominate to play, forms are located from the front office. All games are...

Be rewarded for your services! Volunteering in the canteen can earn your child a canteen voucher! Assisting the canteen staff, Helen or Lee, on any day would be appreciated. You can help anywhere between 30 minutes to 2 hours. If you would like any more...

Over the next two terms we are trialling a new format for assemblies. Each assembly will be presented by year level groups to two smaller audiences. This idea was proposed by SRC in 2021 and will be reviewed at the end of the year. A big thank you to our year 5/6...

Hi all Last term we received some questions from parents/carers and students regarding the Canteen. We thought we would answer them here. What items do we sell over the counter at recess and lunch times? We sell a range of items over the counter to students and...

A special invitation is extended to families to join us for our 2022 Book Week Parade. Theme: ‘Dreaming with eyes open…’ Students and staff are invited to dress up. Be inspired by this year’s theme or dress as character from a story or book. Date: Friday 26th...

Planning for mid-year intake in preschools in 2023 has progressed during the break and I can advise that the registration of interest process for mid-year intake into preschool in 2023 commences from Term 3 2022. Mid-year intake in preschools: Mid-year intake will...

WOODEND CHILDREN’S CENTRE 2023 preschool enrolments now open!! We are a full time Department for Education centre offering a 15hr/week preschool program for children in their year prior to attending school. Session groups in 2023 will be on Monday/Tuesday and...

TROTT PARK KINDERGARTEN – Don’t forgot to enrol your child now for 2023 We are a full time Department for Education Kindergarten offering a preschool program - Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 2.45pm and alternate Fridays 8:30am to 1:30pm. 8 Hessing Crescent, Trott...

Student Free Day Monday 25 July Staff will be involves in professional learning at school. School resumes for students on Tuesday 26 July

SOCCER On Tuesday 21st June, the Woodend boys played two games of Soccer. Game 1 was against Reynella East and finished in a 2-2 draw. We then had an exciting penalty shoot out to determine the winner. Reynella East ended up winning the penalty shoot out 3-2. In...

The year 6 Memento has been installed. The year 6's of 2021 created a very colourful art piece that can be seen from the road as you walk or drive by. We hope past students can walk by at some stage and see their colourful art on display for everyone to enjoy....

Our traffic monitors and teachers have recently reported concerns about safety at our crossings. There have been incidents where cars have driven through the crossings when the stop signs are up, due to inattention. While we know that some of these drivers are not...

Just a reminder that the last day of term 2 is an early dismissal. We finish the term on Friday 8 July 2022 at 2.05pm. Term 3 Commences on Tuesday 26 July 2022.