Dear Parent or Guardian:

Woodland Middle School is continuing with the Project SUCCESS program this school year. This program is being implemented at the middle and high schools in the Woodland school district and in secondary buildings throughout Cowlitz County. This program is funded through a U.S. Department of Education Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant. The goals of the program are to help prevent and reduce alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and to improve school performance. To accomplish these goals, students will have the opportunity to participate in school-wide awareness programs, classroom discussions, extra curricular activities, small group and individual meetings. The program will provide alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention, education and counseling services to students.

Dear Students and Parents –

Welcome to or back to Woodland Middle School! 2010-2011 will be an exciting year for staff and students at Woodland and we are eagerly waiting you child’s arrival.

We will be mailing out student information, August 9. In that packet will be a school supply list, bell schedule, school calendar, and information to access grades on-line.

For incoming 7th graders and new students, we will be having Lunch and Lockers on August 30 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This is a great time for students new to Woodland Middle School to get their locker combinations and schedules, receive a tour of the building, meet teachers, and deposit money into their lunch account. Lunch is not being served.

Dear Parents:
We are preparing for our annual instruction of sex education/HIV prevention as mandated by state law. Our instruction this year will consist of a web-based tutorial featuring the latest information presented in the KNOW curriculum as presented by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. As always, the emphasis of the lessons will be abstention of all sexual activity.  All of the materials have been approved by the curriculum committee of the school district and are available for review here .

We strongly encourage participation in this short presentation for all students, yet we recognize parent/family values play a part in this decision. We respect this and offer parents the option of not having their student participate in this activity.

The Woodland Middle School Robotics team was in action on December 5th at Salmon Creek Elementary School against 18 teams from Oregon and Southwest Washington. The Middle School team, once again, defended its championship title at the qualifying tournament and is bound for the Oregon State First Lego League Championship Tournament at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, on January 16th. This is the fourth time in the last five years that the Middle School has had a team that has qualified for the State Championship Tournament; and it is the third year in a row that it has won the Qualifying Tournament. Last year's team finished 2nd place at the State Tournament. The first place team at the State Tournament will either go to the North American Championship in Dayton, Ohio or the World Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.

Woodland School District is now taking referrals for the Highly Capable Program. The program is designed to challenge gifted and talented students at Woodland Intermediate and Middle School. This is a 3 month process, during which anyone (parents, teachers, media specialists, friends, family, acquaintances, members of the community, cohorts, etc.) may refer a student for testing. Please either visit our website at: http://www.woodlandschools.org/index.php?q=node/1572 or contact the Special Services Department 225-1060 for a Hi C Referral Packet.