It is hard to believe that the first week has gone! The new Reception children have successfully managed their first week of school life. The parents/carers and Reception teachers have benefitted from some quality time to talk about the child and about the year...

Welcome to the new school year! This year we are aiming to feature a blog post each week from one of our classrooms. There are lot's of great things happening in our school and we look forward to sharing some of these experiences more regularly. This week, we are...

  The Woodend Primary School Parent Network is hosting a Summer Car Boot Sale Sunday, 12 February 9am-1pm Open to the entire community! FREE Bouncy Castle Coffee Van Sausage Sizzle Fairy Floss Buskers Seller's Stalls Please help us to spread the word about the...

  It's time again to start another year of School Banking . This year the banking theme is "Future Savers" with some great prizes to claim. Please see image below. Students can use their previous years deposit book & all tokens roll over into this year....

Meet our Teachers and other Parents and Caregivers (and students) Monday 13 February 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 families together to...

It is soon time for your son/daughter to commence their life as a school person at Woodend Primary School. We look forward to welcoming them next Monday 30 January from 8:30am onwards dressed in their school uniform with school bag and ready for the morning. Our...

We hope you enjoyed fabulous family time over the summer break. Staff have been working hard preparing for students' return on Monday. A warm welcome to our new students and families. We look forward to getting to know you and we hope you feel a friendly...

My sincerest thanks to staff, students and parents for the wonderful send off. So much has been said over the past few weeks at a range of different events. I have been extremely flattered, grateful and honoured to receive such lovely words and wishes from so...

We congratulate our Year 7 graduates of 2016 and wish them all the best in 2017 as they progress to high school and a new and exciting phase in their lives. We are very proud of the way these students have worked to be good leaders at this school and strong role...

Every year our Year 7 students work with dance instructor Sue Howard to choreography two dances for presentation at our farewell assembly on the last day of the school year. Both the boy's dance and the girl's dance are usually quite unique and very creative. We...

Each year our Year 7 students create something special to leave as a memento for the school to enjoy and to also leave a mark that helps everyone remember them. The school is full of lovely art and technology installations that have been memento projects over the...

We've all enjoyed another Woodend School Community Christmas Event and we thank all performers for a fabulous three hours of fun and christmas cheer. Thank you also to all the volunteers who help with our canteen services on the night. We think our big crowd of...

Congratulations to Kym Sard and Alex Moran (pictured above) on being acknowledged with Woodend Volunteer Awards for 2017. This recognition is given to long-term volunteers who are leaving the school at the time that their last child is graduating from Year...

Congratulations to the hundreds of students who received a Premier's Reading Challenge Award at our special assembly on 30 November. We were lucky to have Mem Fox as special guest for this presentation. Check out the PRC Awards list on the library blog....

On Monday 5 December our Year 6/7 Cricket Team were invited by SACA to the first ever SACA Primary School Competition Graduation Ceremony. The event was held in the Ian MacLachlan Room in the Members Grandstand at Adelaide Oval. The purpose was for SACA to thank...

We are looking forward to our Annual Christmas Event on Monday night. At this stage the weather forecast is for a beautiful evening. Please find the program for the night here. Please note that it is essential that we keep the gate way between the wavy fence and...

Hello and welcome to my first Woodend community blog. I am looking forward to working with the school community in supporting students to learn within and beyond the school. While I am aware of much of the outstanding work that has already been carried out in the...

Check out this youtube video...added to this post on 09/12/16. A couple of weeks ago our National Prize winning Kidpreneurs of the Year from Felicity Shevchenko's class had an amazing time in Melbourne visiting the Moose Toy Headquarters and meeting with...

  OSHC will be open from 9 January for Vacation Care. School office will be open from 9:00 am on Tuesday 17 January. Uniform Shop will be open from 9:00 am -10:00 am on Monday 23 January and Tuesday 24 January. Teachers will be officially back on duty on 24...

It's sad to be be farewelling Di Thomas (pictured on left, with Helen), who has been associated with our school for 15 years. Di has firstly been a wonderful volunteer at our school when her children were younger. She has also been involved with our school canteen...

We are very pleased that Parent Network has been able to organise two special Mark Le Messurier adult presentations in Terms 1&2 next year. We are sure these will be very engaging for parents and staff . Mark is a very well respected presenter and we have...

We love to recognise all of our volunteers as often as possible. We use the Thank You Morning Tea (10:30 am 9 Dec) to formally do that. We have invited all volunteers to this morning tea. We hope that we have included everyone... if we have inadvertently missed...

  Congratulations to our SRC Leadership Team and all SRC reps for 2016. Over the last 2 years our SRC has focused on student learning and this year we have had 3 themes running throughout the year. All SRC students were helped to develop and refine impulse...

A new principal has been appointed to our school, to commence in January 2017. His name is Steve Freeman. Steve is currently Principal at Reynella Primary School. Steve is an experienced principal and will fit in very well with our school community. He has...

Vacation Care enrolment forms will be available from OSHC on Monday, 28 November from 7am. However the holiday program will not be finalised until Week 9. A reminder OSHC will be closed from Friday, 23 December and will reopen Monday, 9 January 2017. Jackie and the...

We have had wonderfully dedicated group of Parent Network volunteers process all the school banking this year. We thank them so much for their fantastic efforts, which have been sustained for hours every Thursday. Below is some final imortnat information from...

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.

Monday, 25 July 2022 staff will be involved in workshops that will focus on Numeracy goals for our Site Improvement Plan. OSHC is available. Bookings are essential. Please phone 0411274747.   A reminder that the first day of Term 3 (Tuesday 26 July) is school...