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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… Continue Reading →
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! … Continue Reading →
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…. Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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 student reports fit into… Continue Reading →
Find out more when the students in Rooms 19, 25 and 12 report on it … coming soon!
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’ learning by not only… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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,… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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)… Continue Reading →
*EDIT: BTN has posted the video online. We have now included it at the bottom of this post. From a student’s perspective Today I got the chance to listen to Carl, a reporter on BTN, in a live broadcast along with… Continue Reading →
It’s great to see so many students bringing their iPads to school everyday. Using this technology in the classroom allows us the opportunity to explore learning in ways that we couldn’t before. An example of this is the way that… Continue Reading →
ANZAC Day is a national day of significance. It is a day when we commemorate the efforts and valour of our defence forces, who for the past 100 years, have not only honourably represented, in military conflicts around the world, the political will… Continue Reading →
Towards the end of last term, Robyn Cavallaro and her oral language students were using Anzac Ted for some of their learning. Here’s a report from Robyn: It’s great whenever we can make our student learning purposeful and personal. Such is… Continue Reading →
In Thursday’s newsbrief we highlighted the Family Engagement Strategy. The ultimate intent of the strategy is to build the capacity of our students to be better anytime, anywhere learners. Our Family Engagement Strategy is focused on valuing the knowledge and… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
