Our School

Principal’s Message

Welcome to Woodlands.

Our school provides a welcoming, friendly and caring learning environment where individual are encourage to live by the principle of ‘BE YOUR BEST’.

At Woodlands we strive to;

• Celebrate success
• Have high expectations in everything we do
• Develop a community of active learners, with a love of learning
• Teach children how to learn
• Constantly build positive, productive relationships
• Develop, guide and challenge or students to become model citizens and future leaders
• Develop resilient and positive students.

I invite you to share in and contribute to the uniqueness of Woodlands.

Staff

School Leadership Team

Student Wellbeing Team

Administration

Foundation Team

Year One Team

Year Two Team

Year Three Team

Year Four Team

Year Five Team

Year Six Team

Specialist Team

Tutor Learning Initiative Team

Classroom Support & Integration Team

Facilities & Grounds

School Council

What is a school council and what does it do?

All government schools in Victoria have a school council. They are legally formed bodies that are given powers to set the key directions of a school within centrally provided guidelines. In doing this, the Woodlands School Council plays a key role in:

• supporting the principal to provide the best possible educational outcomes for students
• school accountability and improvement processes, and
• the endorsement of key school planning, evaluation and reporting documents.

Membership
Our School Council consists of 8 elected parent members, 4 elected members of staff, and the Principal, with two optional School Council appointed community members.

Terms of Office
The term of office is for two years.

Who is on the school council?
There are three possible categories of membership:

• A mandated elected parent category.
  More than one third of the total members must be from this category. Department of Education and Training (DET) employees can be parent members at their child’s school.
• A mandated elected DET employee category.
  Members of this category may make up no more than one third of the total membership of school council. The principal of the school is automatically one of these members.
• An optional community member category.
  Its members are co-opted by a decision of the council because of their special skills, interests or experiences. DET employees are not eligible to be community members.

The term of office for members is two years. Half the members must retire each year and this creates vacancies for the annual school council elections.

Child Safety & Wellbeing

Child safety and wellbeing at Woodlands Primary School: information for families and the school community

Woodlands Primary School is committed to providing a child safe and child friendly environment, where students are safe and feel safe.

Our child safety and wellbeing policies outline the measures and strategies we have in place to support, promote and maintain the safety and wellbeing of our students:

• Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
• Child Safety Code of Conduct
• Child Safe Standards Risk Register
• Child safety Responding and Reporting Obligations Policy and Procedure
• Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy
• Bullying Prevention Policy
• Volunteers Policy
• Digital Learning Policy

(All these policies can be found here)

As valuable partners in promoting and maintaining child safety and wellbeing at Woodlands Primary School we welcome and encourage your feedback.

If you have any suggestions, comments or questions in relation to our child safe policies and practices, please contact the principal or assistant principal.