Woodstock School Newsletter Archives for the current school year.

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Upcoming Events

• Currently Open - Fall Afterschool Program Registration
• August 29 - 1st-5th Grade First Day of School
• August 29-30 - Kindergarten Teacher and Family Meetings
• August 31 - Kindergarten Half-Class, Full-Day: Cohort A
• September 1 - Kindergarten Half-Class, Full Day: Cohort B
• September 4 - No School: Holiday
• September 5 - Kindergarten First Day Full Class and Parent/Guardian “Boo Hoo Breakfast” and Orientation
• September 6, 6:00-8:00 PM - Open House, ELL Family Night, TAG Information Session
• September 8, 2:15-2:45 PM - PTA Popsicle Party

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Here are current OHA guidelines (in 6 languages) for when to keep your student home from school. 

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Dear Families,

For the winter holidays, we are offering some assistance for families that are having difficulty making ends meet. We are currently collecting holiday wish lists from families needing support.

Here is how the program works:

We will be taking referrals for families during the month of November. Families wishing to participate in the program will fill out a wishlist for each child in their home. Please return your child’s wish list by November 12th.  Each wishlist item will be coded, written on a tag and placed on the bulletin board across from Room 1. All names of program participants will be left off the tags and kept confidential. Families that are able to give will take one or more wishlist tags from the bulletin board and shop for those items. They will then bring the wrapped gift(s) or gift card(s) to the office with the tag attached. The tags are very important because they will have the family code written on it to be sure that the gifts go to the appropriate families.  I will contact participating families and distribute the gifts
      This is a confidential program. To inquire about participation, please call me at 503-916-6380 or talk to your child's teacher. During the weeks of Nov 12 - Dec 6th, check out the Season of Sharing bulletin board if you would like to fulfill someone's wish! Thank you for your care and concern for our school community.

Sincerely, 

Ponny Kosmas and Shannon Nicolas

School Counselor 

Today, we spent our time with the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) discussing financial matters. As an Oregonian story last week made clear, we are far apart on finances – and that distance seems to be rooted, in part, in misunderstandings that we wanted to clarify.

At a time when, unfortunately, many districts are experiencing significant dips – at a time when national trends are going backwards – we’re proud to share with you that we have made notable gains. Across all grades, we outperformed other Oregon districts by more than 10% in both English Language Arts and Math. And in all grades, our students also improved from last year in both Math and English Language Arts.

Today was disappointing – for us but, most importantly, for our students and families. The Portland Association of Teachers offered no counter proposals – and yet declared impasse.

Today, we offered compromises that would both reward our educators and further our students’ success. We were able to raise our compensation offer substantially. We are not there yet, but we are committed to the hard work of finding common ground.