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Are you getting excited for STEAM Week? Read on to see some new events! Monday 14 – Friday 18 October 2019 (Term 4 Week 1) is Woodend’s celebration of all things STEAM. This year we have a theme called: Do… Continue Reading →
Bullying is never ok. It’s hurtful and can impact someone for a long time.There are people you and your children can talk to and things we can do to stop the bullying. What is bullying? People often disagree about what… Continue Reading →
Day 4 and 5 of STEAM Week saw the Year 6/7 and 5/6 students working with Dr Justin Chalker, a Science Lecturer at Flinders University. It was also the launch of our STEAM Expo on the Thursday evening and a… Continue Reading →
Walking through the various learning spaces so far this week has been eye-opening! There has been students presenting dioramas, teams cutting up boxes to complete a challenge, students collaborating over a maths puzzle, parents talking to classes about their field… Continue Reading →
Are you getting excited for STEAM Week? Monday 15 – Friday 19 October 2018 (Term 4 Week 1) is Woodend’s celebration of all things STEAM. Our STEAM Week provides opportunities for students to enjoy and develop an understanding of important science,… Continue Reading →
Let’s start planning! The first week of Term 4, Woodend will celebrate everything linked to STEAM! This is from Monday 15th – Friday 19th October 2018. STEAM Week is a parent engagement initiative where families are encouraged to use some… Continue Reading →
This coming week schools celebrate Science Week. Woodend likes to celebrate this week in Term 4 Week 1 as this gives students and families a greater opportunity to be involved. This year we are excited to introduce a STEAM Week… Continue Reading →
The Parent Network is a commitee of parents who help to foster parent engagement at Woodend – our goals are to support parents, assist in communication with parents, and build a strong parent community. We aim to have at least… Continue Reading →
END OF TERM DISMISSAL is at 2.05pm on Friday. The 2017 school year is rapidly drawing to a close. This week is the last week of our school year and as always, it will be a busy one. Monday is… Continue Reading →
This week, Parent Network held an open meeting to share information and answer questions about our community initiatives. Parent Network has the aim to build our community, to support the students and the school, and to help with communication and… Continue Reading →
New attendance strategy to help South Australian students excel A new attendance strategy has been developed to ensure the state’s 168,000 public school students achieve the best possible education. To support the strategy, an additional 11 attendance and engagement social workers will… Continue Reading →
Enjoy the photos taken at the Science Expo last week. They show many facets of learning including engagement, interest, appreciation, curiosity, inquisitiveness, inquiry, problem solving and creativity to name just a few. Thank you to everyone who visited on Thursday… Continue Reading →
Monday 16 – Friday 20 October 2017 (Term 4 Week 1) is Woodend’s celebration of all things Science. Our Science Week provides opportunities for students to enjoy and develop an understanding of important science concepts and processes and the applications… Continue Reading →
The initial contact with students has been via my visits to classrooms, a welcome assembly and year level meetings. At the same time many students have introduced themselves to me as I walked around the school. I have been very… Continue Reading →
One of the ways in which we hope to build a sense of community and belonging at the school, as well as foster parent engagement in learning, is by inviting parents to join the Parent Network. The Parent Network is… Continue Reading →
My sincerest thanks to staff, students and parents for the wonderful send off. So much has been said over the past few weeks at a range of different events. I have been extremely flattered, grateful and honoured to receive such lovely words… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to Kym Sard and Alex Moran (pictured above) on being acknowledged with Woodend Volunteer Awards for 2017. This recognition is given to long-term volunteers who are leaving the school at the time that their last child is graduating from… Continue Reading →
Fringe Festival We are at last able to post the movie that our students, Chloe and Danica (Yr 6/7 Room 28) created about our Fringe Festival. This was an event that happened in Term 2. Groups of our students created performances,… Continue Reading →
We had a fabulous science week, which culminated with a wonderful Science Expo. We were all enthralled by the hundreds of science projects, posters, models, investigations that were on display. Congratulations to families for all the wonderful engagement in learning that… Continue Reading →
All our science week events that classes are involved in will be set out in a blog post next week. Throughout the week first week of next term we have many classes visiting the mirror dome, primary classes working with scientists… Continue Reading →
There was a mass of colour around the fitness track here at Woodend on Friday morning! Students came dressed in their favourite book character as a culmination to our Book Week activities. Students paraded the circuit waving to parents/carers, siblings, and… Continue Reading →
What is democracy ? How might you engage your child in a discussion about democracy? Many of you will cast your vote in our school gym on Saturday. It important that we use community events to help students make connections… Continue Reading →
Weekend coverage on the NAPLaN league tables that the media produces to “rank” schools are exactly why educators don’t like the hype around these tests. Everyone wants to make improvements to student learning and every school wants to improve their strategies to do… Continue Reading →
Usually at this time of year Class Parent Reps are seeking contact details from parents in order to create a communications list so that parents may know how to contact each other easily. This usually takes a lot of time and… Continue Reading →
We would love to have your input … We have a small number of vacancies for Governing Council members and there are also opportunities for you to be involved in committees without being on Governing Council. We are keen to… Continue Reading →
Traditionally we have called for class parent reps from each class to help liaise with the class families, welcome new school community members and be a first point of contact with parents for the class teacher. The reps have also met twice per term with… Continue Reading →
This year we are once again very excited about helping our students meet the learning challenges ahead. You’ll hear us talking about more about developing Powerful Learners; an important element of our Learning Improvement Plan. We are determined to make… Continue Reading →
