The Woodstock Weekly

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Happy almost Friday in this late newsletter edition.

We hope you will join us tomorrow for our Spring Festival from 3-5 pm. We still have some open volunteer spots if you are interested in getting involved. More info below. 🎪🥏

Thank you to everyone who came out to the last Dine Out of the year at Dick's Primal Burger! And, special thanks to Jackie Leung for organizing so many great opportunities for our community to take the night off from cooking, share a meal with friends, and raise some money for our school. It's been a fantastic year! 🍕🍔

A few important items:

• The Garden Program fundraiser is almost halfway to our goal! If you'd like to contribute, click here for more info. 🌱
• You can still pre-order your student's yearbook! Books will be going home the last week of school, which is right around the corner. Thank you to everyone who's already contributed! 📘
• Last but not least, PPS is asking for your input on the school consolidation process. Make your voice heard by filling out the Rightsizing Survey by Friday, May 15. 🏫
• Ms. Rowey and Ms. Candace need volunteers to help make the Art & Music Showcase shine! See below for details.

—Your friendly Woodstock PTA

• 📌 Friday, May 15, 3-5 pm, Spring Festival
  
• 📌 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

This event can't happen without the help of this wonderful Woodstock community! We need volunteers to help with the event -- particularly to manage the dunk tank -- and to donate items for the bake sale!

Find an opportunity to get involved here!

The Spring Arts Showcase is approaching quickly on Thursday, May 28 and Ms. Candace and Ms. Rowey could use any and all help in the coming weeks for a successful event! There are opportunities to help both Ms. Candace and Ms. Rowey before and the night of the show.

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!)
• There will be a table set up at the spring festival for book donations. Books can also 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.

Sunday, May 17th at 10 am

Ride together with Lane Middle School students and families on the Lane M.S. Bike Bus routes
Meet at one of four (4) starting locations, or join along the routes:

1. Glenwood Park, SE 87th and Glenwood

2. Woodstock Park at SE 47th and Harold

3. SE 80th and Carlton
4. SE 78th and Harney
All Routes start at 10:00 am and will end at Lane. There will be snacks and games at Lane. More details on the flyer.

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.