OSHC FEE INCREASE
Attention all Woodend OSHC Families, As at 8th MAY 2017, fees for BEFORE SCHOOL CARE will increase to $14.00 per session. This increase has been made due to rising costs and has been approved by Woodend Governing Council. Should you have any queries, please contact...
Inquiry Learning with Ms Gregory
In room 30 this term we have been working with Ms. Gregory for Inquiry and learning about electricity. Towards the end of the term we began working on a project to show our understanding. When we first started we were working on a train, but we couldn't get the...
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End of Term 1
Reminder: Early Dismissal (2:05pm) on Friday for the last day of term. It's been a great first term and much has been happening at Woodend. Learning Conversations: Teachers highly valued recent opportunities to meet with students and their families to discuss...
RAN-EC training for volunteers
To volunteer at Woodend Primary School, you have been required to complete a Volunteer Induction workshop (this is the RAN-EC training). The Department for Education and Child Development (DECD) has now made available an online induction session for volunteers...
School Crossing Changes… Please help our monitors
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...
Myojo Highlights March 2017
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...
Help needed
We have a 2m square cube soundproof room in panels that needs reconstructing in the Performing Arts room - a bit like an IKEA job!! I think it is a relatively short job for anyone who has some skills - unlike myself but would need a couple of people as the panels...
Netball Registrations are due now…
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...
Sports Day Feedback Survey
As a follow up to our recent Sports Day, the following survey is available for families to give feedback. We are keen to get your thoughts and to use this to assist us when organising our next Sports Day. The survey only takes a few minutes (depending on any...
Woodies Goodies Subway Lunch
Woodies Goodies is holding a Special Lunch Day on Wednesday 12th April. Please order on Qkr, or return the form which has been sent home today, by Thursday 6th April. There will be no regular lunch orders on this...
SAPSASA Swimming
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 5/6/7 Student Walking Group
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...
Myojo Family Barbeque
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...
How our Children get to School and how we can Improve the Safety of Walking or Riding to School. Way2Go Parent Survey
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...
Another Superb Sports Day!
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...
Welcome to our Myojo visitors!
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...
High School Open Nights
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...
Traffic Safety
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...
Sports Day Program 2017
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Online Bookings for Parent/ Teacher/ Student Interviews – Instructions (Opening Wednesday 22 March)
Please note that Interviews will be booked on-line this year. The attached sheet gives a 'How to do it' set of instructions. If you have any difficulty, please contact Kerri on the front desk ph: 8322 6422. We hope that this makes it easier for families,...
From Japanese class
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 @ Hallett Cove School …..
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...
What has appeared in our school garden?
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...
Pedal Prix Sports Day Cake Stall
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...
School Banking Information Session
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...
Mark LeMessurier : Dealing with BIG Feelings
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...
Kitchen Garden Produce For Sale
The following produce from our Kitchen Garden Program is for sale on Qkr eggs, lemon curd, marmalade, organic garlic
A busy August and September with SAPSASA!
BASKETBALL Friday 12th August The boys team were able to make solid improvements after a tough first 3 games. They worked hard on their skills and were rewarded with a great win to finish the day and ended in 7th spot. Boys results: L - 23-11 against Port Elliott L...
2023 Term 4 Start of our Long Awaited Building Program
Dear families, I am very pleased to be able to say that we will see builders onsite early in term 4. They will be setting up their builder’s compound in the first instance and fencing off their first stage for building works. Initially the works involving the...
Everything you need to know about STEAM Week 2022!
We are excited to be holding our annual STEAM Week again in 2022. Students will have the opportunity to imagine, action and showcase their ideas in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics as they explore our theme ‘MORE THAN MEETS THE...
Year 1 Assembly Recordings
Congratulations to our Year 1 children who presented their assembly for our school community today. It was fantastic to see so many families in attendance! A reminder that all families are invited to come along and watch. You can see when assemblies are scheduled...
Gardening with Kids – Free holiday event, hosted at Woodend
Gardening with Kids Want to start gardening with the kids this spring? Join this fun, interactive and inspiring session about home gardening for adults and kids. The session will include hands-on activities for parents and kids to do together. There will also be...
Southern District Hiragana Reading Competition Success
We love it when our students put in tremendous effort and strive for excellence and we saw this during the competition. On Wednesday of this week our school took part in the annual Hiragana Reading Competition, held at Reynella East College. We took 2 teams of 4...
Updates for the last weeks of Term Three
Dear families, Her Majesty The Queen 1926 – 2022 To acknowledge the passing of Her Majesty and as a sign of respect, the South Australian Government is supporting several observances. From Friday 9 September 2022 to Thursday 22 September 2022, our school flags...
Colour Run Fundraiser 2022
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...
Sushi Special Lunch happening soon!
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...
Show-ing Off Our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
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...
Dreaming with our eyes wide open for Book Week!
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...
