Funding has been provided by the Department for Education and Child Development (DECD) for security fencing around the school buildings. The fencing will secure the school buildings and also the Woodend Children's Centre, outside school hours (~ from about 7 pm -...

  Annual School Community Christmas Event Monday 7 December First Performances from 6:00 pm ... A Program will be published on this blog by Friday 4 December. Neighbours will receive a letter informing them of the evening and the fireworks and a notice has...

Thank You To Our Wonderful Volunteers Our volunteers have again worked so hard this year, generously giving their time, energy and ideas for the benefit of our school. It may be organising or helping out in classrooms, with parent network and Governing Council...

Members from the school jump team High Velocity had an enjoyable time entertaining the crowds at last weekend's Glenelg Christmas Pageant.The team demonstrated their fabulous rope tricks to the large crowd prior to the parade.They also invited members of the public...

  Most families of senior students in 2016 have placed their order. THIS IS A FINAL REMINDER that all orders and payment for 2016 Senior Uniforms are due this Thursday, 26 November. This is a once off opportunity to order these items. Senior Uniform is...

Last Thursday 19 November we welcomed our 2016 new Reception children and families to our school. The children had their first orientation visit to their 2016 classroom with their 2016 teacher/s and spent time becoming familiar with their classroom, teacher/s and...

SRC has organised a Causal Day for this Friday 27 November, to raise money to fund the fireworks for our School Community Christmas Event on 7 December. As it is our 20th Birthday we are looking forward to another big display to finish off our celebrations. If...

It is our aim that digital technology is used to promote powerful learning, inquiry, creativity and effective communication. We wish to support our students to become digitally responsible citizens. We also want students to be using digital technology as a tool for...

SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 2015 @ 12 noon Inviting all Kanga, Year 4/5 and Year 6/7 cricket players from both Term 1 and 4 to come along and celebrate the year with a luncheon and presentations. This will be held on Saturday 5 December at Woodend School Oval at 12 noon....

Year 2 students helped make the Atrium Cafe come alive by making a few additions, cleaning and changing the space. Additions include: writing paper, writing pens and pencils, whiteboard and markers, clipboard, digital timer, phone book and cash register so as to...

This afternoon squealing and laughter could be heard in the sandpit on the oval as Room 5 Receptions had the opportunity to get all wet! The water play afternoon was in response to the children's interest in water and jumping in puddles after recent rains....

If you would like have a copy of our 20th birthday whole school photo, there is information at the school office. The cost is $10 for an A4 size photo. The fantastic 20th Birthday Fair was also a very successful fun day and also proved to be a good fundraiser....

We are currently conducting a review of our kitchen garden program; interviewing the specialists, teachers, students and volunteers. On Tuesday we would love to catch up with any of our Kitchen or Garden Volunteers for about 30 minutes to have a...

Our Uniform Review Committee recently met to review the changes made to the 'Footwear' section of our School Uniform Policy. As our policy states, we are to conduct a review of these changes one year later. We believe there has been a positive response to the...

With the change of term and season, our Uniform Review Committee would like to remind families of the summer uniform requirements. This information is provided below and is also on our website. We have noticed students wearing items that do not conform with our...

Our school grounds are fantastic and we wish to keep on maintaining and developing them. There is a wonderful opportunity to have the dream job of full-time (38 Hours per week) groundsperson at our school, for someone with the skills and creativity required. We...

Are you planning on having a spring clean soon? We have conducted an audit on our playboxes and play areas and found several play items that we would appreciate adding to our play. If you have any of these pre loved household items to donate that are safe, clean...

Congratulations to all the team members who participated in the recent Jump Rope Championships held at Westminster College.Once again Woodend won many medals finishing second overall an amazing effort! Their Group Routine to the soundtrack of Thriller was...

Recently Woodend School took part in School Crossing Monitor Training conducted by the South Australian Police. This involved students in years 5 and 6 being trained by Road Safety Educators from the SA Police Road Safety Section. After the training is complete the...

We could not have dreamt of a better day than we experienced for our 20th Birthday Fair on Saturday. The overwhelming sentiment from visitors was: What a lovely school. What a lovely school community. What a great event. We know there is so much pride in this...

Right from the start the goal for the 20th Birthday Fair has been to have a memorable, enjoyable school community event. The 20th Birthday Fair Committee has put in a very fantastic effort that has created optimum conditions for success. One look at the program...

We are very pleased to announce that Jane-Ann Natar has have been appointed as Deputy Principal at Woodend for the next five years. This is very good news for us and we are thrilled for Jane-Ann to achieve this well earned recognition of her leadership.  ...

We need some parents to come along on Wednesday 4 November (2:00 pm or 2:30 pm) and be part of a group discussion / feedback session with a couple of very friendly review officers who are reviewing our school. The questions for the parent discussion will be much...

On the Monday of the last week in term 3, most of the year 6/7s from Woodend P.S packed up and went to Canberra. We had been learning about Australia’s history and democracy and to finish it all off we went to Canberra. I had been looking forward to Canberra for...

We had a very positive response to our free movie night last Thursday evening. Families could enjoy sitting in comfy chairs or bean bags tasting strawberry sorbet, Apricot with Cardamom Grissini sticks or popcorn and viewing the thought-provoking movie 'That Sugar...

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This year the Woolworths Earn and Learn stickers have enabled the school to purchase a further 30 Bee Bots to be used by our classes. How very exciting for our students. We thank all families who contributed to this effort and a big thank you to Jenny Cullen for...

Our teachers are a fabulous group of professionals who put their heart and soul into making a difference for the students of Woodend Primary School. We really appreciate their special efforts. We thank Governing Council for providing a special morning tea today...

Call for Christmas Event Performers: We are starting to put our program together for our School Community Christmas Event (7 December) and would love to hear from those who would like to perform. There is never any requirement that any class participates in this...

This year we were again able to take part in the annual Hiragana Reading Competition, held at Reynella East College. We were able to take 2 teams of 4 to represent our school. It was a highly sort after position and after lunch time try outs the 2 teams were chosen...

Parents and carers of students with disability are invited to attend the Disability Policy & Programs November 18th 2021 Parent Forum. Hosted by the Department for Education, the Parent Forums are to inform and engage with parents or carers about the services...

Wellbeing Focus Day was on Monday 25 October. It was lovely to see students dressed in clothes that represented something about their wellbeing and to hear them talk about why they chose to wear what they did. All Junior Primary classes enjoyed a session with...

COVID-19 Update – 25 October The good news we have been hoping for is here. See the information below. It is always a complex task to balance the known with the unknown and I think we have managed very well. This type of organisation can be summed up with the...

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Today we welcomed Nick from the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) who presented our Year 3/4 Blue team with a special, first time award. Each week during the 2021 season, the coaches and umpires voted on the team that showed 'Fair Play'. This...

Roger Yazbek's main research field is the development of new breath analysis tests for cancer, gastrointestinal function and dietary monitoring. He collects human breath samples and measures the different gasses that make up the breath and tries to relate that...

On Thursday 14th October we welcomed back Tall Poppy Scientist, Margaret Shanafield. Margaret is a Hydrologist and a Hydrogeologist. Margaret studies water, and how and where water moves from rainfall into streams into the groundwater (or up into the air via...