Woodland elementary students in second through fifth grades competed in the third annual Future Chefs of America event by cooking their own recipes for judging and enjoyment by attendees at Woodland High School on Tuesday, March 26.
Woodland Public Schools’ food services provider, Sodexo, sponsors the event each year to give students the opportunity to exercise...
Elizabeth “Liz” Vallaire, TEAM High School’s Math and Science Teacher, was selected as Teacher of the Year for the state of Washington by the Washington Association for Learning Alternatives (WALA).
TEAM High School, Woodland Public Schools’ alternative high school, offers students an alternative to the traditional high school experience. “For some students, the...
Kindergarten registration has started for the 2019-2020 school year for Woodland Public Schools!
Kindergarten packets are available from Jody Brentin, the district’s registrar, at the Business Services Office (one of the portables near TEAM High School by the district office location). Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. year-round from Monday through...
AP Government students at Woodland High School get in on March Madness each year by debating the merits of 16 different Supreme Court cases to determine which ones have the most significance on American society.
Sharon Conditt, WHS government teacher, came up with the idea of an annual class project around March Madness after attending a social studies conference....
Woodland High School held its annual Top 5% Ceremony on Thursday, March 21, 2019 celebrating the 2019 graduates with the highest overall GPAs in the school.
The students with the top 5% GPAs are (in alphabetical order):
Audrey Adams
Ashlyn Daugherty
Michael Gabalis
Kyle Groce
Franics Helling
Lane Koistinen (not pictured)
Hannah Landrigan
...
Woodland Public Schools invites parents and guardians to take part in an online survey to provide feedback on their community schools. The results of this survey will help identify what Woodland Public Schools is doing well, where we need to improve, and how to set our planning priorities for the future.
Woodland Public Schools has hired School Perceptions, an...
Woodland community members, school district staff and students attended the annual $50k-for-20 High School Scholarship Trust Fund’s annual fundraiser on Thursday, March 14, 2019!
Board Director Steve Madsen served as the Master of Ceremonies for the eventAttendees toured the Career & Technical Education (CTE) facilities and munched on delicious appetizers prepared...
Celina Green wanted her 11-year-old daughter, Dakota Wilcox, to learn a valuable lesson about giving back. “Kids should learn what it means to put in the work to earn the satisfaction of knowing what you did will benefit others,” said Green. “As children, we don’t realize the amount of hard work it can take to purchase necessities and provide for others, and I...
The staff and students of Woodland Public Schools celebrated their Board of Directors during the district’s regular board meeting on Monday, February 25, 2019.
Although School Appreciation Month is traditionally held in January, board director schedules caused a delay in the date of the celebration however there was no decrease in the district’s...
Woodland Public Schools celebrates National School Breakfast Week (March 4-8) with FREE breakfast for all students!
Students can enjoy free breakfast each day during National School Breakfast Week from March 4-8 and learn the benefits of a healthy school breakfast.
Breakfast Menus for the Week
Woodland Primary
Yale Elementary
...
Eighth-grade students at Woodland Middle
School learned the importance of not dropping out school through CHOICES, an
interactive workshop presented by the CHOICES Education Group, a nonprofit
organization based in Seattle, in partnership with community outreach
specialists from Fibre Federal Community Union.
The two-day CHOICES workshop uses a...
Woodland Public Schools invites the community to Name Your Schools!
The finalists are in! Vote for your favorite name-pair to replace Woodland Primary School and Woodland Intermediate School by clicking this link:
http://bit.ly/NameYourSchoolsFinal
Voting will close on Friday, February 15 and the final names for the district's elementary schools will be...
Although more than 20 miles separates
Woodland Public Schools from Yale Elementary School, one of the district’s three
elementary schools serving K-4 students, the location is all that’s remote
about the school as the staff remains very much a part of Woodland Public
Schools.
With a total school enrollment between 40-50
students and multi-grade classrooms,...
Mike “Coach Woody” Woodward, one of Woodland High School’s physical education teachers and recent football coach, announced his retirement from coaching at the end of the 2018 season. Over his 20 years of coaching football, Woodward learned a great deal from his players and students about teaching as well as coaching.
Woodward started coaching football immediately...
The Clark County Public Health Department is investigating a measles outbreak in the community. As of January 21, 2019, the department has identified 22 confirmed cases and three suspect cases. Although no cases of measles have been found in Woodland Public Schools at this time, the district is advising parents and guardians to take proper precautions to protect...
Woodland Public Schools invites the community to Name Your Schools!
With Woodland Primary and Woodland Intermediate serving K-4 next year, both schools will need new names and we want the community to give suggestions!
Anyone who wants to can suggest as many names as they want (fill out multiple forms, if you'd like) at the following online form:
...
Three seniors at Woodland High School – Evan Ailinger, Michael Gabalis and Orion Hollar – recently received their results from their Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs) and were excited to discover they each earned a perfect score – 800 – on the math section of the test.
What is the SAT?
Many students planning to attend college take an assessment test...
Woodland’s sixth graders become sales managers and CEOs for a day at Junior Achievement’s JA BizTown
Woodland Middle School’s sixth graders worked
as customer service representatives, store managers, and even CEOs when they attended
JA BizTown, a culminating day-long visit to a simulated town developed by the
Junior Achievement program.
Robin Uhlenkott teaches financial literacy to
Woodland’s middle school students as part of the school’s new Personal...
Woodland Primary and Woodland Intermediate Schools will be reconfigured to join Yale Elementary in serving grades K-4 beginning with the 2019-2020 school year and all three schools will have attendance area boundaries.
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Reconfiguration boundary plan
In order to develop the optimal boundary...
Luke Cook will graduate from TEAM High School, Woodland Public Schools’ alternative high school, later in December in order to pursue his dream of working in law enforcement.
TEAM offers Woodland’s students a path to earning a high school diploma which accommodates each individuals’ life circumstances including full-time work, family responsibilities, or simply...
Woodland’s Chief of Police Jim Kelly and
Officer Brent Murray visited Katie Klaus’ government class to discuss the methods
law enforcement uses to ensure they protect individual rights while also
protecting the general public as a whole.
Klaus’ students spent the past weeks studying
the Bill of Rights with visiting speakers including Woodland High...
You are invited to attend a gallery showing of artwork from students in Woodland High School’s AP Studio Art class on Friday, December 14 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Lovejoy Gallery located at 226 Davidson Avenue, Suite A in Woodland.
The show features ceramic works from each student artist’s concentration. “Students need to demonstrate a range of media and...
Woodland High School band students took part in “Music Major for a Day” at Washington State University’s School of Music in Pullman followed by a private tour and instruction at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho.
The ten band students experienced life as a music major including experiencing a college student’s typical schedule. Students...
More than 700 students learned about career opportunities right in their home region from more than 40 businesses at the inaugural Woodland Days Career Fair, a partnership between Woodland Public Schools and the Port of Woodland to offer a career fair specifically designed for students considering living-wage careers after high school not necessarily requiring a...
Woodland High School partnered with the Providence Heart Institute (PHI) to offer youth heart and health screenings for Woodland students between 12-19 years old including height, weight, blood pressure, and electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG) scans at no cost to the students or the school.
PHI started offering free youth health screenings after noticing a series of...
Woodland Public Schools brings awareness to technology use and living in a digital world with Digital Citizenship Week from Monday, November 5 through Friday, November 9.
Students will learn to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in a world that’s becoming more and more digital. “With the increased amount of time students spend in...
In order to reduce the financial burden on students to attend school events and participate in athletics, Woodland High School provided ASB cards to every student free-of-charge for the 2018-2019 school year. ASB cards enable students to get into home games and student performances free-of-charge. Students also receive discounts on away games and school dances. In...
September is National Attendance Awareness Month and Woodland Public Schools would like to remind parents and students of our ongoing priority to ensure students receive the best opportunities for learning and personal growth. A postcard reminder of the district attendance policy has been sent home with all students not high school age:Woodland Public Schools...
In preparation for the new school year, Woodland Public Schools faculty and staff gathered for an annual all-staff breakfast and collaborative meeting on Monday, September 10, where they reviewed their progress during the prior school year and reinvigorated their focus for continuous improvement in student learning across the entire district in the future.
The...
Beginning with the 2019-20 school year, Woodland Primary School and Woodland Intermediate School will join Yale School to serve students in grades K-4 as neighborhood schools, reconfiguring from their existing grade structure of grades K-1 at Woodland Primary and grades 2-4 at Woodland Intermediate.
The current enrollment of Woodland Public Schools already exceeds...
Woodland Public Schools employees and community member volunteers handed out free backpacks filled with school supplies to students from Woodland, Kalama, and La Center School Districts at Woodland Public Schools’ second annual Back to School Bash on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
Leslie Mohlman, Coordinator for Woodland Public Schools' Family Community Resource...
With the first day of school rapidly approaching on Tuesday, August 28, Woodland Public Schools offers the following resources and tips for parents and students to get a jump start on preparing for the new school year.
Stay up-to-date with Woodland Public Schools’ new smartphone app and website
Over the summer, Woodland Public Schools launched a new...
While students enjoy their summer vacations, many school teachers and staff spend their summers developing their teaching skills through professional development opportunities, helping out in their communities, offering students opportunities to make up class credits and preparing for an upcoming exciting school year.
Team members from Woodland Primary School...
Tree Removal on Thursday, July 26, 2018
The district facility team removed the Pin Oak trees on the north side of the Woodland Middle School campus today (Thursday, July 26, 2018) as part of a three-year program started last year to continue the district’s priority of ensuring the safety of students and community members.
Beginning last year, old...
Rhys Thomas, a performer who uses juggling
and circus tricks to teach science, visited Woodland Primary School to perform “Gollyology,”
a show he developed in partnership with the Oregon Museum of Science and
Industry (OMSI) to inspire young minds to learn more about science.
Rhys taught students scientific concepts including
gravity, gyroscopic stability,...
Woodland Intermediate School held its first Career Day featuring guest professionals who taught students about career choices including firefighting, dog grooming, being a railroad engineer, working as a seamstress for Nike and many more on Tuesday, June 12.
Patti Cutler, a fourth grade teacher at Woodland Intermediate, invited professionals from around the county...
Woodland High School celebrated its largest graduating class with 155 graduates in a series of events culminating in the Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 15. Graduates took part in a Senior Breakfast, paraded through district schools in the Parade of Graduates, and concluded by walking in the 110th Annual Commencement to receive their diplomas.
Senior...
Woodland Public Schools’ TEAM High School offers
an alternative path for students to achieve success in their K-12 education by
offering flexible lesson schedules, self-directed lesson plans and personalized
teaching in a focused learning environment.
Students who enroll at TEAM range from those who
have full-time jobs to those looking for a more flexible high...
Art Fest 2018 is almost here!
Art Fest 2018 starts next week on Monday, June 4 and runs through Thursday, June 7 featuring more than 1,000 pieces of art from all grade levels Kindergarten through 12th on display in the auxiliary gym at Woodland High School.
In addition, there are free events throughout the week including live music and dramatic...
Children 18 years and younger can receive free meals at Woodland Middle School throughout the summer thanks to the Simplified Summer Food Program for Children.From Monday, June 25, 2018 through Tuesday, August 17, 2018, children
under the age of 18 can receive breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. free of charge at the...
Woodland Public Schools’ Family Community Resource Center offers the Food Pantry Program, a free service offering families-in-need free food and other resources to help make ends meet, thanks to donations of local businesses and organizations along with volunteering community members.
As summer approaches, Leslie Mohlman, the district’s Community, Family, Student...
Woodland Public Schools makes safety for students and staff the top priority with new technology; regular review and updating of security procedures; staff training; and holding practice drills at all schools.
Capital facilities improvements and training thanks to community support of district levies and bonds help to ensure safety at every school throughout...
Smokey the Bear visited Woodland Primary School along with Amanda Dales, School Instructor for the USDA Forest Service, to teach students the importance of fire safety and how to prevent forest fires. Smokey and Amanda also taught the students how to put out forest fires, the importance of taking everything with you when you leave a forest, and what to do if you...