20th Birthday Casual Day Friday, 10 April
A Reminder that this Friday, April 10, we are holding a whole school $2 Casual Day. Proceeds go towards our 20th Birthday Celebrations. See poster below for further details. 20th Birthday poster casual...
Biodiveristy Project: Building the Edward Beck Drive Wall, Fence and Gates…. Qualified People Needed
The Grounds committee believes that early next term we should be able to take our first actions in relation to our Biodiversity and Nature Play Project. Those first actions will involve the work on our Edward Beck Drive boundary. As many of you would be aware,...
AGM 2015: Stretching and Powerful Partnerships
At the AGM on 18 March our 2014 Annual Report was presented. It highlighted some key aspects of our Learning Improvement Plan for the year ahead: It is acknowledged that we provide a very good level of educational opportunities for all students. We also...
Be The First To Try This Out…
Students have been watching this addition to the middle yard playground take shape for about four weeks; excitedly awaiting the chance to get on it. On Tuesday 10 cubic metres of softfall will need to be shifted into this playground space before it can be opened...
What is Easter All About?
What do some of our kids say about Easter? We asked several classes of Year 1,2 and 4 students: ... Jesus died. We have a cross on the buns because of the cross that Jesus died on. Everyone in the world has Easter*... The Easter Bunny is a boy. *How do you...
Migrant Stories – Room 19 & 25 History Projects
This term, students from Ms Lipczyk's and Mr Lamshed & Ms Shevchenko's classes have been working on a history project looking at migrant stories. For the project, students needed to take on the identity of a person who has migrated to Australia. As this person,...
Play at Woodend
Our teachers have always recognised that play was an important aspect of child development. However, it has also been challenging for teachers to provide enough time for play while working to develop formal literacy and numeracy skills. We are now really...
Netball Registrations Due Now …Return Forms by 7 April
School Netball Registrations are due now! It’s time to finalise teams for the 2015 School Netball Season, so this is your last chance for your child to nominate to play. All girls and boys from Year 2 to Year 7 are eligible to play. Forms are located in the front...
Friday 10 April End Of Term 2:05 pm Dismissal… Three Student Free Days in Term 2
Remember we are closed on Monday 18 May and Tuesday Wednesday 2&3 of June
What Was It Like Hosting A Student From Japan?
Here's Alyssa's impressions. We'd love to hear from others who hosted Myojo students. Please leave your comments below! Over the last 9 days I have had a Japanese student staying at my house. Her name is Satoko. Satoko was visiting Woodend as an exchange student...
Myojo at Woodend: Host Family BBQ
We love this week with our buddies from Myojo. Monday night was anther lovely night where over 100 children, parents and staff enjoyed a BBQ dinner together. The atmosphere was terrific and always makes us feel so good about everyone on being together doing...
Sea To Shore: Science Workshop
By students in Mr. Zampogna’s and Ms. Whelan’s classes As part of our science program on Sea to Shore our classes have been studying how scientists monitor animal and plant species. They do this by using transect lines and quadrats. A Quadrat is a square...
Whelan’s Wonders’ Paper Plane Experience
At the beginning of this term we started reading the novel Paper Planes. As a result of this one person started making and flying paper planes and everyone caught the disease. The class has been turned into an airport. There are planes crashing in the most...
Sports Day Program and Map
Hardcopy will go home to all families tomorrow. Sports Day Program 2015 Map of Events,...
AGM 2015 … SRC is about Decision Making and Communication Skills
At the AGM we talked about SRC and the importance of developing students' understanding of decision making and communication processes. We talked about how we want SRC to focus on improvements in learning. We saw that this was the main role of SRC. A key...
Important Term 2 Dates: Student Free Days and NAPLAN
*Please note this is a repost of important information first posted last term In term 2 we have three Student Free Days. On these days our staff are involved in training and development activities associated with our Learning Improvement Plan. The school...
Biodiversity And Nature Play Project Concept Mock Up
Here are the elements that our project team have been working on . These elements have been placed around the oval however they have just been placed there to allow us to continue to play with the ideas until we are satisfied with their locations, scale and...
Sports Day Chants
GREEN – Extraordinary Earth We are far from ordinary That's what makes us extraordinary We won't stumble or fall down We will go and win the crown We are powerful, we are cheerful And we will make you fear full. Green, green we are mean and we are the best you've...
AGM 2015 … Biodiversity And Nature Play Project Launched
We are very excited to launch this project. There are exciting things about to happened and our plans are looking good. At the AGM students supported the presentation by Monina Gilbey and Jeremy Gramp, which gave an overview of the key elements of the...
It’s Fun and Important to BE ACTIVE… That’s the Real Sports Day Message
Our student preparations for Sports Day are underway. There are moves to learn for the Warm Up and there are team chants. Families are getting the colours and cakes ready. While it's all part of the fun of the day, our real focus is on celebrating the...
Host Families Welcome Our Myojo Students
We are very fortunate to have 22 families able to host our Myojo students. We really appreciate their involvement in this program. This is the 9th year Myojo students have visited our school and we are very grateful for the large number of families who have now...
Welcome To Our Myojo Buddies
Twenty two students and four staff from Myojo Gakuen have arrived at our school for another wonderful week staying with our host families. This is always an exciting week for our families and for the host classes. Our staff too have a busy week entertaining our...
A Path From Young Street To Woodend Children’s Centre
Significant earthworks are taking place on the Young St block at our southern boundary. We know it is hectic in Bathbank Crescent. With that in mind we have been conferring with Hickinbotham's on improving access from Young St. They have been terrific in...
Middle Yard Play Ground Extension
You may have noticed this extension to the play equipment in the "Middle Yard" and rightly thought: "This can't be safe!" You're right; it's not safe YET! What is happening is that we are cutting some of the concrete curbing and asphalt out to increase...
Good Thinking Awards Term 1 Week 8
Good Thinking Awards Congratulations to these students who have been identified by their teachers as having achieved learning success and positive influence on others in line with our school values: Zach, Stella & Dashiel (9), Cooper, Jessalyn, Josh &...
Woodend Recipe Book …Get Your Recipe In By 27 March!
Fresh produce from our garden makes a delicious base for our recipes Don’t miss your opportunity to contribute your favourite tried and true recipes to the Woodend Recipe Book, which is being produced as part of our 20th Birthday celebrations. To be involved in the...
The Art of Photography
Taking a photo is a most common thing. We don't think twice about most photos we take ... However if we did want to take some photos that were really impressive and did want to actually say something special about our subjects and did want to communicate something...
Learning Conversations … building our team knowledge
Our Formal Learning Conversations are occurring now until the end of the term. Look out for the booking sheet from your child’s class teacher. We invite all Parents and Caregivers to participate in these Learning Conversations. We call them Learning...
Sports Day: Attire … Program & Map Posted Here Soon… Hardcopy 26 March
Students will be allowed to have some fun with their outfits and team colours on the day, however, sun safety will still be a priority so hats and shirts/t-shirts with sleeves are mandatory. These guidelines allow for those who would like to get creative on Sports...
National Science Week 2021
In week 5 our school will celebrate National Science Week with a program of activities offered by our Design/Technology, Kitchen and Garden Specialists. These sessions are an opportunity for our school to explore themes relating to food sustainability, showcasing...
Celebrating the Olympics – Friday the 6th of August
Our school has been buzzing with excitement as we’ve watched athletes from around the world compete in this year’s Olympics and learnt about many areas of the games. Students are encouraged to help celebrate the close of the Tokyo Olympics by dressing up in green...
Latest Covid Restrictions in Schools Update – 3rd Aug 2021
Dear families, Firstly a big thank you for respecting the instructions given to remain outside of the school perimeter during drop-off and pick-up times. This is not a time for complacency and the direction given to us comes directly from SAHealth and The...
Year 7 to High School Update Term 3, Week 3
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Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)
The NCCD is an annual collection of information about Australian school students with disability. The NCCD enables schools, education authorities and governments to better understand the needs of students with disability and how they can be best supported at...
Would you like to go into the draw for a trip to Kangaroo Island and fundraise for your school sports?
SeaLink have kindly donated a voucher to Kangaroo Island via the SeaLink ferry to help fundraise for our sports curriculum. This voucher (worth $400) entitles you to one return ferry trip travelling with Kangaroo Island SeaLink for two adults and a standard...
Returning to School after Lockdown
Dear families, School will resume on Wednesday morning (28-7-2021) and from that point there will not be an online learning program available, other than for students where families have been required to quarantine by SAHealth. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge the...
Wellbeing during lockdown
Thank you for your flexibility and positive action as we transition to remote learning during lockdown. Understandably, this time can bring feelings of anxiety and stress, especially felt, strongly by children of all ages. Now, perhaps more than ever, it is...
Covid-19: Letter to Parents/Caregivers
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Southern Valley representatives!
Congratulations to several of our Woodend students who were selected or have participated in Southern Valley competitions. Well done to the Woodend year 6 and 7 boys who have represented Southern Valley Football in the latter part of this term. Also congratulations...