Good Thinking Awards Term 1 Week 11
Good Thinking Awards Congratulations to these students who have been identified by their teachers as having modelled good thinking in line with aspects of our school vision: Madison, Tyler, Mia & David (24), Shae, Jacob & Kyte (29), Owen, lance, Zoe &...
Interview The Block Stars: Scott Cam, Tim and Anastasia?
You might like to take the family to the local Mitre 10 store on Saturday 18 April between 2-4 pm to meet some of the celebrities from The Block. Maybe one of our students could snag an interview with Scott Cam and get a photograph? This could be a good...
Student Voice Through Our News Blog, SRC Blog, Library Blog
In Thursday's newsbrief we talked about our desire to tell our news as much as possible through our students' contributions. It's great to have real purpose for writing and we are hoping that some of that writing will also be in the form of feedback that students...
Brian is sailing away and Aimee is getting married
Brian will be on Long Service Leave for the first three weeks of Term 2. Some of that time he will be sailing around the Whitsundays enjoying the sun and the sea. We wish him well on his holiday. Fay will be Principal during this time and Jane-Ann Natar has been...
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 &...
Sports Update
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...
Credit Union SA Home Loan Cashback or Reduced Rate
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...
Full steam ahead for STEAM Week 2021!
Term 4, Week 1 (11th - 15th of October) We are excited to be holding our annual STEAM Week again this year. Through a range of activities and celebrations, students will have the opportunity to imagine, action and showcase their ideas in the fields of science,...
Principal’s Update Week 7
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...
PAT Testing 2021
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...
Shopping for Fathers Day!
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...
SAPSASA football update
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...
SAPSASA Basketball update
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...
Parent Forum
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...