The Woodstock Weekly

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This week is a busy one!

The first early release of the school year is on Wednesday. Students get out at 11:50 am. Our first Dine Out of the year will also be on Wednesday. Swing by Ate-oh-Ate from 5-9 pm for a delicious meal and a break from cooking! 🍜 15% of sales will go to the Woodstock PTA.

We are wrapping up this week with two fun community events. ✨

Bring your bike on Friday, September 18th to the 3rd Annual Woodstock Walk & Roll Fair! This event takes place after school at the Traffic Playground. Get your helmet fit checked, learn some new safety skills, and hit the freshly painted bike playground. 🚲

Join the Garden Committee, Grow Portland, and Hands on Greater Portland for the Annual Community Care Day on Saturday, September 19th. In addition to cleaning up the school garden and campus, kids can participate in a variety of fun activities! See below for details! 🌿🌻

Have a great week! 💙🦁

—Your friendly Woodstock PTA

• 📌 Wednesday, September 16, 11:50 am, Early Release
• 📌 Wednesday, September 16, 5 - 9 pm, Dine Out at Ate-oh-Ate
• 📌 Friday, September 18, 2:30–5:30 pm, 3rd Annual Woodstock Walk & Roll Fair
• 📌 Saturday, September 19, 10 am – 12:00 pm, Community Care Day
• 📌 Wednesday, September 23, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, PTA Pre-Open House Picnic
• 📌 Wednesday, September 23, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Open House
• 📌 Friday, September 25, 7:45 am, Special Guest Bike Bus + 🍩
• 📌 Wednesday, September 30, School Photos
• 📌 Wednesday, September 30, 8:00 - 8:45 am, Tea with Principal E
• 📌 Wednesday, September 30, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Drop in office hours with Principal Earle

Ate-Oh-Ate donates 15% of every order on Wed, Sept 16th! Get ready for a delicious night out (or in!) with friends while supporting our school.

• Date: Wednesday, Sept 16th, 2026

• Time: 5 PM – 9 PM

• Ate-oh-Ate Donates 15% of all Dine-in, Take-out, and even gift certificate sales! (Note: 3rd-party delivery apps like DoorDash, GrubHub, and UberEats are excluded).

• Order Online: https://order.toasttab.com/online/ate-oh-ate-grill-se-52nd-ave-and-woodstock

There are still a few spots remaining in several afterschool programs! Check out the ultimate frisbee program and a new offering below.

Journey to Steam: Minecraft Makers: Coding & Game Design

• Wednesdays, 2:35 to 3:35 PM at Woodstock
• Starts Wednesday, October 7, 8 sessions
• Grades 2 to 5
• $299 for the fall term
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Use code STEAM25 at checkout for $25 off, which brings it to $274. Registration closes Wednesday, September 30. Sign up today!

Explore all the programs with remaining spaces and find the perfect fit for your student here!

Join the Garden Committee, Grow Portland, and Hands On Greater Portland to show our school campus some love. 💙

Volunteers will help to clean up and beautify the school grounds and garden. There will also be fun activities for kids to enjoy as we work to make our school a wonderful place for our students to learn and grow.

Find more details and sign up at Hands On Greater Portland!

Want to help run activities for kids? Sign up here!

Families are invited to enjoy September's StoryWalk - A Tiger Tail: (Or What Happened to Anya on Her First Day of School) written and illustrated by Mike Boldt. It tells the funny story of a young girl dealing with first-day-of-school nerves. StoryWalks will be up for about two weeks and families are invited to read the stories with their children before or after school. Teachers will be invited to bring their students to view the StoryWalk as time allows. The Woodstock StoryWalk Series is funded by the Woodstock PTA.

Join us for the 3rd Annual Woodstock Bike Fair after school on Friday, September 18th from 2:30–5:30 pm at the Traffic Playground (north west side of school). There will be a quick fix-bike repair station, helmet fitting station, bike safety and skills station, a free raffle, and more! We will have free helmets, snacks, and bike decorations while supplies last. This event is supported by Metro and hosted by the Woodstock School PTA Walk & Roll Committee.

Bring a bike if you have one, if not, Cycle Oregon will be bringing loaner bikes and helmets for families to use at the Bike Fair. Sizes from little kids to adults.

We need volunteers for this event! Sign up today!

Bike Buses encourage biking by creating designated routes to school that children and their families can join along the way. For families commuting to Woodstock School, you can join a Bike Bus by parking at the start of the route or anywhere along the way. Please check the updated Bike Bus map, as the routes and start times may have changed for your route. Bike Buses will roll every Friday, rain or shine. Ready to roll with us? Join the Bike Bus WhatsApp Group for the route closest to you: Northside WhatsApp Group and the SE 60th/Carlton WhatsApp Group.

Special Guest Bike Bus + Donuts on Friday, September 25: The guest will join the SE 60th/Carlton Bike Bus on 9/25 and then there will be donuts for both bike buses when we arrive at school.

How can you help?

Join the organizing committee. We're looking to have parents from all classes represented. This won't be a huge time commitment as we have a lot of things organized already.

Donate something for the auction. We're taking donations for our live and silent auction, plus gift cards for our Gift Card Gamble and wine for the Wine Wall. Donations are tax deductible.

Would your business like to sponsor the event? Email Tonya (see below) for more details.

Save the date! Friday, November 6th, at Excellent Cuisine - 8733 SE Division St.

Contact Tonya Moyle, tonyalangford@gmail.com, if you'd like to participate.

We are still looking for a few more players to join the Elementary Youth Frisbee League.

Woodstock has two teams: Blaze (3-4th graders) and Wildfire (4-5th graders). Teams are co-ed.

This is DIFFERENT than the Afterschool program, and rather similar to other sports leagues that involve weekly team practice and weekend games against other teams in the league.

Practices will be Thursdays right after school at Woodstock Elementary from 2:30-4:30 pm.

Games are Sundays (9/13-10/25) 10 am - 12 pm (3-4th grade) and 12 pm - 2 pm (4-5th grade) at Clinton City Park

Check out more information here or contact Dana Chang (dcg.chang@gmail.com) with any questions!

Woodstock Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) can help you and your neighbors get prepared and build community resilience. NET volunteers get free training from the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) and Portland Fire & Rescue. Learn lifesaving skills to help neighbors during emergencies, big or small.

Woodstock NET is one of more than 50 neighborhood-based disaster assistance teams organized by PBEM. We organize monthly trainings on topics including first aid, radio communications, urban search and rescue, fire suppression, disaster sanitation, community organizing, and many others. Trainings are open to all; no previous experience needed.

We are actively recruiting new members, and we’d love to meet you!
More info at https://woodstocknet.org/

Join or organize a community preparedness pod

Pods are made up of neighbors from two or more nearby households with a shared interest in helping each other during emergencies. Pods help build neighborhood relationships, expand social connections, and share emergency prep skills.

Woodstock Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) is hosting a community workshop on October 11, open to all interested neighbors:

Neighborhood Pod Starter Kit

Sunday October 11, 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Woodstock Library community room
6008 SE 49th Ave.

Most of our NET training covers disaster response — this workshop covers the community organizing skills to build strong neighborhood ties before disaster hits. Practice the 1:1 conversations and first-meeting basics that turn interested neighbors into a community preparedness pod, and leave with a starter kit of tools, a plan for your first outreach, and a group to check in with along the way.

More info / RSVP for Neighborhood Pod Starter Kit Workshop