The mid year student reports have been sent home today. They should really summarise what students, teachers and parents already know about learning achievements, goals and support. Our school Learning Plan is increasingly focussed on stretching students'...

We thank Amanda Dawson for running the Cybersafety sessions (one for staff and one for parents) on 30 June. The feedback has been very positive. The 40 parents who attended the evening session had many questions and left with a better understanding of how to be...

  Check out the article below, and also the 25 things to do in winter. NaturePlay-ThingsToDo-ImportanceOfMud NaturePlay-ThingsToDo-Winter...

We know that it's a good chance for staff and students to have a recuperative break during these holidays. We know there will be some lovely crisp winter days, ready made for some outside play too. Nature Play SA have some great ideas for winter activities. We...

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In week 5 of this term Jarrad and Owen played in the Southern Valley District football team in the SAPSASA State Carnival. The week competition was held at West Beach and involved a 9 game competition. To be selected in the Southern Valley team we had to go to...

Tuesday, 28 July (Class, Individual & Family) Wednesday, 29 July (Family, Groups, Jump & Sport) Information about your upcoming photo day! DO NOT PAY OR SEND ENVELOPES UNTIL THE DAY If you are placing an order please ensure each child has their own envelope...

Fantastic effort from all who contributed sponsorship donations via our Active-Athon. We have such a wonderful school community. All students will benefit from the lovely environment we create through our Biodiversity and Nature Play Project, which these funds...

Miss Ottewell, Mrs Aparicio and Mrs Podzuweit's classes did week 8 assembly. The classes did the dance Lets Move by Beyonce and 8 groups did and small SketchShe performance each. We all had a fun time working will our buddies to make the assembly dance. The school...

This term Phil Cummings came to our school to talk about writing with the year 6/7 classes. Wednesday morning all the senior students went to the gym to see him. When we got there he was talking to us about the way he writes and what inspires him. Many...

The school JumpTeam High Velocity had a fabulous day out recently performing at Willunga and Goolwa Primary. Our next excursion will be on Thursday June 25th. to Mypolonga Primary and Unity College Murray Bridge! Special thanks to all the parents who come along and...

Cybersafety ... What are your Questions? Help Your Children be CyberSmart... Come to the information session... Put your questions (or comments) on this blog post or on our Facebook site... The Woodend Parent Network would like to invite you to a parent...

Scrumptious choices at the Canteen... Our Healthy Eating Canteen committee have been reviewing our Canteen menu recently. As with all schools, we referenced the Healthy Eating Guidelines within the Right Bite strategy which is the Department for Education and...

This is not the Fence!! But could this type of fence work as our fence #2? Thank you to those who had offered to help with our first Working Bees for construction of fence #1: the chain mesh fence on Edward Beck Drive. Those Working Bees were scheduled for this...

Listening to a special story is always a wonderful experience. Thousands of children across our nation read the same book at the same time as part National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS). Held annually, a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author...

Thank you to all who have already contributed to our Active-Athon. We already have received about $2000. This is our major annual fundraiser so please give generously next week. Today we had a perfect day for all the activity. Pictured are students from Jenny...

Congratulations to our school choir who were assessed by the organisers of the South Australian Public Schools Music Festival today. At this time of year, all school choirs who are participating in the festival are assessed on their musicality, behaviour, word...

Building a positive digital footprint is something that’s important for all of our students to learn as they get older and start using social media. 
This is something that is important for our school as well! When someone searches for Woodend Primary School on the...

This Friday, 12th June, is our school's major fundraiser for the year. Each year we hold an 'athon' with fantastic results. This year's ACTIVE-athon is a great opportunity to get students moving and being active while raising important funds for our school. All...

This year rooms 25 and 19 are getting together each week to have our health lessons in single gender groups. In the boys lessons we look at stereotypes of boys and men in the media and discuss how what we see on TV isn't really what life is like. When we first...

On Friday of week 3, term 2, Lili, Lilyana, Sophie, Jesse, Brianna and I (Ella G) from room 12 had the opportunity to be on the Get Dirty with Milton tv show. We had the opportunity because Lili’s mum (Haidi) works for the tv show. It was an amazing experience and...

Pictured above are students from Room 1 showing on the boundary Our Biodiversity and Nature Play Project will kick off with construction of a 70 metre fence on our oval boundary. It will take two Working Bees which the Grounds Committee have scheduled for 20...

  Our exciting Active Athon is just around the corner on Friday 12 June. We encourage all students to raise as much sponsorship money as possible to make this major fundraiser a successful event for our school. The more money we can raise as a school the more...

We would like to share with you some information about our school canteen. This post is to introduce our friendly, hard-working and quiet achievers Helen, Di and Lee and to acknowledge their work in purchasing, preparing and selling a variety of snacks and lunches...

Volunteers are an integral part of our school and local communities everywhere. We really appreciate the tremendous impact that our volunteers have on much that we do at Woodend. It is therefore a wonderful thing that the state government has an official...

On Friday 22 May we marked our 20th birthday with a lovely assembly, which concluded with a special visit from Channel 7 News personalities Amelia Mulcahy and Bruce Abernethy. On the big screen in the gym students watched (via Skype) the arrival of our surprise...

There has been a buzz of shoppers in the Atrium on Wednesday and Thursday this week! Students have been busily shopping for their father, grandfather or special person in their life in preparation for Fathers Day. The Fathers Day stall is an annual event...

Last Thursday 19th August our SAPSASA boy's AFL football team represented our school. Unfortunately, the boys were defeated against a strong opposition in game 2. Their effort, commitment and team energy was fantastic. Well done boys on showing great improvement...

Last Friday 20th August, our SAPSASA basketball teams competed at Morphett Vale stadium. 32 students represented the school and all teams went really well and improved each game. All teams got at least one win for the day and got better throughout the day. Thanks...

Parents and carers of students with disability are invited to attend the Disability Policy & Programs September 16 2021 Parent Forum Hosted by the Department for Education, the Parent Forums are to inform and engage with parents or carers about the services...

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Woodend Primary School is in the early stages of developing a set a values that reflect our school community. Please take some time to complete this short survey aimed at identifying what Woodend families view as the most important values for our school to develop,...

TUNE IN this Tuesday for our Virtual Book Week Parade! Available to stream via our News Blog or Woodend Primary School Facebook page any time after 2pm.

What a fabulous achievement for the 30 students who represented Woodend in our first ever, on stage performance last week, at the Entertainment Centre. The students told a beautiful environmental story through a series of dance moves and signature acting pieces....

Congratulations to the Woodend Year 6 girls who have convincingly beaten McCauley and All Saints schools yesterday afternoon at Woodend. They were very focussed and played strongly as a team. They are now through to the state finals! Very exciting news for the...

We were very excited to be invited to share our work with using the InitiaLit program with our local schools this week. Ms Yardley, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Ogilvie, Mrs Harris and Mrs Luke showcased aspects of the program to the leaders of our neighbouring schools and...

The theme for this year’s CBCA Book Week is: ‘Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds’ 2021 Book Week Dress Up Day: Tuesday the 24th of August (Week 6) Come dressed in the Book Week theme or as your favourite book character. Please wear sunsmart clothing and...

The Parent Network are happy to announce that we are able to go ahead with the Gift Stall in honour of Father’s Day. We are excited that our students will get the chance to say thank you to the special people in their life who take care of them this year. Students...