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Woodside PTSA Weekly Update
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Congratulations to all of our graduating seniors. Graduation is Friday morning and it will be a great day for all. Thanks to the many volunteers who are helping with the festivities.
Good luck to your children during finals. Teachers are on campus and in their classrooms everyday before finals from 8 - 8:50 for students to visit for last-minute studying. Remember it is a special bell schedule all week.
This is our last issue of the Weekly Update for this school year. Check your email boxes Sunday August 16 for our first issue of 2015-16.
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Calendar
THIS WEEK
- Monday - Thursday, June 1-4, FINALS SCHEDULE
- Wednesday, June 3, Awards Night, 7pm
- Thursday, June 4, Senior Graduation practice, 8:30 am, football field. Senior Social 10:45.
- Thursday, June 4, Last day of School
- Friday, June 5, Graduation, 10am
UPCOMING
- August 10, Fall sports packets due
- August 15, Freshman Registration
- August 17, Registration Sophomore, Junior, Senior
- August 18, First Day of School
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SCHOOL NEWS
Final Examination Schedule
Required Summer Reading
All Woodside High School students are required to read ONE of the following books this summer: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. LImited copies are available for check out through the WHS and public libraries.
Athletic Clearance Fall 2015 Fall sports clearance deadline due Monday, August 10, 2015 to begin practice on August 14th. The Permit to Participate in Athletic clearance packet is available online at http://sportsnethost.com/woodside or in the Administration Office. Athletes are required to have a current physical exam form on file with the Health Office along with a copy of the student's current immunizations. Completed physicals and packets can be turned in May 1 to June 30, and beginning again July 30.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Help at the Library!
Parents are needed to help with the thousands of textbooks that are returned to the library from Monday June 1st thru Thursday June 4th. The textbooks need to be checked in and distributed around the library for storage over the summer. There is a bit of heavy lifting involved. Any time you could help would be very much appreciated, even if just for an hour or so on any one day. Contact Anne Ken at aken@seq.org or if you are in the neighborhood, just come in.
We need the help during the following days/times:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, June 1, 2, 3
8:30am to 1:45pm
Thursday, June 4
8:30am to 12:00pm
Help at Registration in August! We need helpers at registration on August 15 and 17. Please contact Lupe Flores-Robles gfrobles@seq.org if you can help. Bilingual is a plus!
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WOODSIDE IN THE NEWS
You've seen the Bike Shed in the WHS student parking lot. Now read about what students are learning in that shed in this article originally printed May 20 in the Almanac.
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PARENT GROUPS
 Class of 2015 
Class of 2018
Help needed with the Senior Brunch!
Our last "duty" of the year as freshman class is the Senior Brunch for the graduating class on the last day of school, June 4, after graduation practice. We just need a few more bowls of fruit salad. If you can help click here.
If you are short of time and cannot help out with the event, please consider a $25 donation. To donate, click here.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, August 25 Look for the Class of 2018 table at the 2015 Arena Check-in for details about this coming year meetings and activities.
We are about $1,500 away from reaching our freshman year fundraising goal: go to our page on the PTSA website to donate to the Class of 2018 Safe and Sober Grad Night.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
How Idling Your Car Negatively Effects Your Kids
Dear Parents,
We are students in AP Environmental Science, and we are writing to you today regarding an issue that is very important to us. We have all been in the Woodside parking lot before and during pickup time. There are lines of cars stretching around campus, especially in the student lot. When you are picking up your child after school, please turn your car engine off while you are waiting. Idling your car can cost you lots of money and has costly effects on the environment. Did you know that idling your car for two minutes wastes the same amount of gas as driving for a mile? For every ten minutes that your engine is off, you are saving one pound of carbon dioxide from being emitted into the atmosphere. We realize that there are lots of parents waiting to pick up their kids, and that causes big traffic back-ups, and if all of those parents were to be idling their cars, that would cause significant amounts of smog. Please help us keep our campus air clean. Turning off your engine reduces air pollution, and saves your wallet. You can help the movement, and become part of the anti-idling campaign. To learn more, you can visit: http://www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus/antiidling.htm.
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Ten seconds of idling uses more gas than turning off and restarting your engine
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Idling for an hour uses between ⅕ to 7/10 of a gallon of gas
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An idling vehicle emits 20 times more pollution than one traveling 32 mph.
We think that this is a relatively simple problem to solve. Posting this letter will help to raise awareness, and change the amount of pollutants emitted on our school campus. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Anika Rohlfes, Colin Endo, Michael Mendelsohn, Kirk Arena, and Sebastien Kister
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FROM THE EDITOR
To submit an item, email it to the editor at whsupdate@gmail.com by 9:00 PM on the Thursday prior to the Sunday publication date. Provide a .jpg attachment for all pictures and graphics. Do NOT inbed images or graphics into word docs. Send separately or send a pdf.
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