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...

  Three parent forums are planned for parents and carers of children/young people with a disability in 2017. The forums are an opportunity to further build the relationships between families and the Department for Education and Child Development by listening...

Yesterday we sent home 15 students with Gastro systems (diarrhoea, vomiting, upset tummies). If your child has been sent home or has any of these symptoms please do not send them to school. Students are to be excluded from school until there has not been a loose...

This year, we will be holding a School Colour-Run as our major fundraising event! Organised by our SRC and parent network, this event is designed to raise much needed money towards improving The Street learning and play spaces and purchasing a portable stage set up...

Woodies Goodies Special Lunch Day for Term 3 is always a favourite among the students. See below for further details: Woodies Goodies Special Lunch Day Sushi Lunch Monday 19th September (Week 9) ****** 1 x sushi roll and drink $6.00 1 x additional sushi - extra...

If you get along to the show tomorrow or Monday, be sure to stop by the horticulture exhibits and check out our entries. Our Year 5/6 classes have created Scarecrows that are entered in the Royal Adelaide Show's Scarecrow Competition and Room 17 helped to create...

Although Book Week may have officially drawn to a close at Woodend on Friday, it’s clear the celebrations are not over! Story Quest was enjoyed by a number of our middle and upper primary classes today. In this wonderful performance, two brilliant characters...

Next Monday the 5th September is a School Closure Day. OSHC is available. Bookings are essential. Please phone 0411274747 or book via Family Lounge.

On Wednesday of last week, years 4, 5 and 6 classes took part in a fantastic Science workshop that focussed on forensic evidence and code cracking. Students were invited to help crack the code and solve a “real life” forensic crime scene. They used microscopes, DNA...

Clever Kids is a small group social-emotional wellbeing program facilitated through SPELD and designed for children with a diagnosis of dyslexia. It aims to improve student self-esteem, resilience and assertiveness, and to help them to develop effective coping...

The following items, from our Kitchen / Garden Program, are available for sale through Qkr, under School Payments on the Kitchen/Garden tab. Items purchased will be delivered to classes Tuesday, August 25. Large jars Triple Citrus Marmalade - $4 Small jars Triple...

Today we took five buses full of Reception to Year 2 students to Hopgood Theatre. It was a Patch Theatre Performance entitled 'Home'. There was not one minute where the children's senses were not engaged! Visually, orally, aurally and kinaesthetically the...

''A beautifully danced piece about natural disaster and caring for others brought to life effectively through audiovisuals, stagecraft and the use of reportage and montage.'' by Amanda Phillips & Alix Kuijpers To all staff and students involved, particularly...

We are excited to announce that this year we are doing a Colour Run Fundraiser! Perhaps you were part of our community in 2018 or 2019 when we last held Colour Runs, it is a lot of fun! This year we will have plans for some new obstacles and we might even get to...

Congratulations to our Reception children who presented their first assembly for our school community today. Room 4 & Room 12 https://youtu.be/6xMKhzqAG_s Room 3 & Room 11 https://youtu.be/LCo9X92ncXk [gallery columns="1" size="large"...