An amazing display of lanterns was enjoyed at our Book Week celebration event on Friday. Students responded to their reading with enthusiasm and imagination. They made connections using an innovation on this year's book week theme Books light up our world. The...

We need people with Wheel Barrows shovels and rakes to finish of the path around the oval ... We need a small team to help install the fence rails and...

Next Thursday, 3 September is our school's annual music night! This year we will be continuing with our format, using three stages to help keep the night moving along at an entertaining pace. This is a fantastic opportunity for our budding musicians to...

We love it when our students put in tremendous effort and strive for excellence. All students who participated in the Hiragana Challenge put in the effort to stretch their learning so that they could recognise the Hiragana at lightning speed! We love those...

On Wednesday all the year 6/7s had an opportunity to be involved in a session run by Alex and Elliot from Today’s Future Sound. Today’s Future Sound is a non-profitable organisation to introduce kids around the world to Hip-Hop music. Alex Blum and Elliot Gann were...

At Woodend there are only 3 days to go until the end of reading for the Challenge in 2015. We are encouraging students to get those books read and record sheets completed. Record sheets go to the class teacher by Friday 28 August and entering our school’s data...

Approximately 300 students moved and grooved at last Friday night's Woodend disco. It was very difficult to choose the most interesting dancing as there was so much talent on the gym floor! Thank you to all those who helped ensure the night was a success...

During this week we need volunteers to come in and paint fence palings. There are more than three hundred palings and they all need to be painted before they can be installed on our fence, this Saturday. They are being stored in the pizza oven area along with...

Thanks to the dedicated efforts of our wonderful volunteers we got a huge amount achieved on Saturday morning. The posts timber fence and gates have been installed; a giant job all accomplished Friday night and early Saturday morning. A huge thank you to Alex...

A number of schools in South Australia have recently reported high rates of absence due to the flu. We would like to remind families of some important preventative measures to decrease the risk for students at Woodend. Please ensure that sick children stay at home...

Book Week is 24- 28 August. At Woodend our celebration event will be at 10:00 am on Friday 28 August. Using our innovation on this year's theme: Books Light up our World, all classes will join in our Lantern Parade. Students are creatively designing lanterns...

We recommend parents and caregivers check out the Great Start website which has plenty of ideas and activities that can help you make the most of everyday learning and events. This is an award winning DECD website which promotes more powerful engagement of...

Governing Council and staff have been taking the first steps to reviewing our Homework Policy. We invite you to read the Homework Policy. You will see that it has been quiet a while since we created this policy, in consultation with many families. We believe it...

This week is National Recognition Week for School Services Officers. At our school we are very fortunate to have a terrific team of support staff helping to care for and educate your children, and run our school. We wish to publicly acknowledge and thank our SSOs...

The students in Rooms 3 and 4 have had fun learning about Living Things through the wonderful experiences offered by the Henny Penny Hatching Program. The students watched chicks hatch, observed them fluffing up and losing their egg tooth. Once all chicks were...

This year our school jump team High Velocity has seven very talented and skilful boys demonstrating amazing jump rope skills! We enjoy jump because it's a great way to keep fit, learn new rope tricks and most of all have fun! Going on school visits is great because...

Students in Vicki Gregory's year 3 class have been very enterprising. They have been creating, promoting and conducting businesses, as you can see from the from the pictures below. Such learning experience are so rich in maths and planning and communication...

Do you believe this? Does your child or your student believe this? Read this article (with your child if possible) and discuss. Below are what some of our students have...

Congratulations to our second semester SRC reps. These students will be presented with their badges at assembly on Wednesday. We look forward to working with them and their first semester buddies. SRC is an important leadership role in the school. In keeping...

To spread the load over the two Saturdays we are suggesting that families with students in even numbered class numbers may like to come on 22 August and those with students in odd numbered classes may like to come on 29 August. Of course you can help out whenever...

It's been a very busy beginning of the term, particularly from a staffing perspective, due to some unforseen health issues for three staff members: Fay Magias, John Brown and Ginny Langton. Fay was going on planned holiday leave for the first 6 weeks of this...

This Term our Year 4/5s (16 Sept) and 6/7s (17 Sept) will be participating in age appropriate fun workshops run by the Sammy D team. The principle aims at the Sammy D Foundation are to – Provide leadership for the South Australian community to empower our youth...

Some entrepreneurial Year 6 students have embarked on Gymnastics workshops for students each Monday at lunch play. Under the guidance of Mr Zampogna, Ebony, Olivia, Sarah, Shae, and Maddi along with extra helpers, planned and organised consent forms, warm-ups,...

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...

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...

Yesterday and today, children and staff from Woodend Children's Centre came to visit to see what some classes have been doing for STEAM Week. The Tuesday group of children helped to count rubbish collections to see how much plastic we use each day in a classroom. ...