The Woodstock Weekly

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A big thank you to our community for coming out to the Spring Festival! Friday was the definition of a PNW spring day with the weather bouncing from sun and clouds to rain and even some hail! We appreciate your willingness to pivot with us.

We were all a little bummed to learn the dunk tank and bounce house were not going to make it due to a broken trailer axle, but this community showed that we can adapt and still have a great time. Thank you to Circus Cascadia for setting up a family friendly work shop with tight rope walking, stilts, and other activities in the cafeteria to keep us out of the rain. It was so much fun to watch everyone try something new and daring!

We want to recognize our sponsors and partners that helped make this event a success:

• Portland Children's Dentistry
• Trader Joe's
• One with Heart
• Portland Ultimate
• Circus Cascadia

And thank you to the volunteers and community that came out to make this event great!

A few important items for this week:

• Ms. Rowey and Ms. Candace still need volunteers to help make the Art & Music Showcase shine! It's coming up next week! See below for details.

—Your friendly Woodstock PTA

• 📌 Monday, May 25, Memorial Day, No School
• 📌 Thursday, May 28, Art & Music Showcase
• 📌 Monday, June 1, Library Used Book Sale
• 📌 Thursday, June 4, Field Day
• 📌 Friday, June 5, All School Lunch Picnic
• 📌 Friday, June 5, Last Day of School

We will be hosting Donut Bike Buses every Friday until the end of the school year! Thank you to Bike Loud! for your donut mini grant! This is a great time to get biking!

Bike Bus families, Save-the-Date for an End-of-Year Bike Bus Skate Party at Mt. Scott Community Center on Saturday, June 6! Join the Bike Bus to learn more!

Woodstock families! PBOT wants to hear from you. Take this 4-minute survey about bike bus wayfinding! The survey will be open through May 31st, 2026 and will help inform Metro and PBOT about the Bike Bus wayfinding at Woodstock School.

The Woodstock School Garden and its trees continue to thrive thanks to community support and volunteers. Please consider signing up for a week to water our school garden. Volunteers will be able to take home produce from the garden and any excess can be donated to a local food pantry. Of course, the amount of care that the garden will require during any particular week will also greatly depend on the weather. It could be as often as every couple of days if it is really hot or every 3 days if it is relatively cool.

Additionally, we are looking for people to help with watering trees. We have watering bags that will be placed around the trunks and they will mainly just need a good watering once or twice a month. It may be that the volunteers who care for the trees could be separate or there could be overlap. Let me know if you are interested in that role as well.

Here are the links to sign up:

Woodstock School Garden Watering 2026 Sign-up

Woodstock School Tree Watering 2026 Sign-up

The Annual Used Book Sale will be Monday, June 1, 2:30 - 4 pm!

A few important details:

• Accepting donations from now through the end of May. (Please see the list below!)
• Books can be dropped off at the office or library.
• All students who return their books by June 1st will get a coupon for a free book!
• We will accept cash, coin and electronic payment with a $5 minimum.

The Woodstock Neighborhood Association is working with the Portland Parks Foundation (PPF) to figure out potential funding efforts for playground updates at Woodstock Park. This will likely require some level of community funding, with the remainder funded by PPF and Portland Parks. We would like to invite you to attend a community meeting on Wednesday, May 20 at 7 pm at the Woodstock Community Center (5905 SE 43rd Avenue) or via Zoom. We will discuss the overall project, engagement opportunities, potential funding strategies, and how we can rally as a community to support this project.