Please join us on Tuesday, June 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library.

Frank Kohn Photography will be available during Baccalaureate (Sunday, June 14, at Woodson) to take individual and group portraits of your graduate, family and friends. Sittings are available before and after the 2:00 p.m. service, from 1:00 - 4:30; $20 payable to WT Woodson PTSA per sitting. Arrive early to schedule your preferred slot. More information, and the registration form, are available here.

This is a great opportunity to preserve your memories and help out the Woodson PTSA!

Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal's web site, www.SLEEPinFairfax.org, provides information about the organization's efforts to effect later start times at Fairfax County high schools and middle schools. The site contains information about the group and its mission, a fact sheet (reproduced here, for your convenience) on adolescents and sleep, and a petition to sign for those supporting later start times at secondary schools.

SLEEP is a grassroots organization started by two Fairfax County parents concerned about the early start times of the county’s secondary schools. Years ago, a Fairfax County Public Schools Task Force studying school start times concluded that later start times would benefit adolescents. There is a large body of research which supports the Task Force’s finding, saying that teenagers’ natural sleep patterns make it difficult for them to go to sleep and wake up early. Currently, however, most county high schools begin at 7:20 a.m., and adolescents are often going to school sleep-deprived.

This matter touches all of our children. Learn as much as possible about it! SLEEP's web site is a great place to start.

Is it really a cruise? Click the Cavalier Cruise link at left to find out!

While you're there, you can learn all about the Cruise, reserve space for your Senior, volunteer to help put on the Cruise, and lots more!

The Woodson PTSA provides refreshments for various school events, puts on the Cavalier Cruise graduation party, presents programs on the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, publishes the student directory, WEMail and this newsletter, raises funds for teacher and student programs (via the Fall Craft Fair and Spring fundraising letter), organizes volunteers, provides parent feedback for the renovation of the school, and takes on several other tasks that support our students. We need volunteers to chair committees for the next school year. Some committees continue throughout the school year, and others are active for a particular event. Your help is needed. We can't serve the school or our students without your help. If you are interested, you're welcome to use the PTSA Database to volunteer, or send in the volunteer form (found on this website under the Forms tab), or contact Annie Schwartz, Volunteer Coordinator

Please use our password-protected, draft Directory to check your family's entry. You can let us know if there are problems at directory@wtwoodsonptsa.org.

While you're there, please join the PTSA. It's $10.00 per adult and $3.00 per student, and you can pay online with PayPal! You will also be able to volunteer to help your PTSA with its many activities. Just click the "PTSA Database" link at left.

To raise money for  Woodson, the PTSA is starting a “buy a brick” campaign.  There will be a brick plaza built in between the auditorium and the front office entrance that will be landscaped with small trees, planters, and a sculpture/centerpiece.  The bricks will each be individually engraved.  This project will not start until after the Renovation is completely finished, in the Summer of 2010, but we are starting now to raise the money.

The bricks will be sold individually for $100 each, and will include up to three lines of engraving. If you have a student graduating this year, what a great present a brick could be!

Click here for the purchase form!

The Woodson PTSA unanimously voted and approved the following motion: 

“Woodson PTSA strongly endorses the efforts of FAIRGRADE, and urges the FCPS School Board to revise the existing FCPS grading scale to be more in line with other nationally recognized public high schools, including but not limited to returning to a 10 point grading scale, and to address its weighting policies for Honors and AP courses as well. In addition, to avoid having another class of eligible college applicants be penalized, Woodson urges that the Board vote to make this change as soon as possible, to be implemented in the Fall of 2009, and to make such change retroactive to ensure that all existing students will have a report card that reflects the revised grading system.”