As a lead up to our year6/7 trip to Canberra students from Ms Whelan and Mr. Zampogna’s have been researching artists who have pieces of work on display in the National Art Gallery. One such artist we investigated was Jackson Pollock who painted Blue Poles! This...

This Sunday, some of our students have organised a fun run as a fundraiser for the BJ Blue Foundation. This is the culmination of their work for their 'genius project'. If you are able to make it to the 'duck pond' and support them we would love to see you there....

The information below is published to help build parents' understandings of the intent of the Australian Curriculum and in particular the General Capabilities. It also provides some explanation of the Achievement Standards and a perspective on where these...

Find out more when the students in Rooms 19, 25 and 12 report on it ... coming soon! ...

We love the way so many families took the opportunity to reinforce with their children the concept of community spirit, when they donated to our school via the Active- Athon. While community spirit is alive and well at Woodend, we still enjoy winning something...

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...

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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...

Dear families, Volunteers As we approach the end of the school term, we are thankful that despite the restrictions that we still have in place, we are able to organise and carry out excursions and camps for our students. In order to fulfil our requirements for...

It has been a busy time for many students and Mr Hehner with sporting commitments recently. We congratulate all those students who participated in District Athletics on 30th August and a big congratulations to the following students who have been selected to...

Woodend Primary School has partnered with Credit Union SA on their School Community Rewards program, which provides a regular financial benefit for our school without having to donate any time or money, please see the latest offer for our school...

Dear families, Once again, this term appears to be flying past us. On Monday of this week, we farewelled the two 5/6 classes to their camp at Wirraway Homestead at Strathalbyn. On Tuesday of this week we have three classes going to Parliament house, and on...

As part of DfE policy, all year 3-10 students are required to complete diagnostic assessments called Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT). At Woodend, we also test our year 2 students. These assessments give valuable information to teaching staff about your child’s...

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...