Superintendent's Message
5 Things You Should Know About District 50 August, 2010 Dear Woodland Parents and Families, Coming soon...a new website: We’re pleased to announce the upcoming redesign of the district website, www.dist50.net. An External Community Committee of parents, staff and community members met throughout the school year last year to provide input regarding what design, information and navigation features they wanted to see as part of the website. In addition, input was sought from each of the schools. Thank you to the members of the External Community Committee as well as the staff who provided us with this valuable guidance for our new site. The redesigned website includes a map locator feature for each school, the capability to view multiple school and district calendars on one page and an improved search engine. We hope to go live on August 31. We will seek your feedback at that time as we will continue to look for ways to enhance the site over the next several months.	Superintendent Joy A. Swoboda, Ed. D.

Sneak Preview:
Please join us on Saturday, August 21 for this year’s Sneak Preview.

Woodland Primary, Elementary East and Elementary West Schools will be open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Woodland Intermediate and Middle Schools will be open from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Woodland Primary School
--17366 W. Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake

Woodland Elementary East School
--17261 W. Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake

Woodland Elementary West School
--17371 W. Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake

Woodland Intermediate School
--1115 N. Hunt Club Road, Gurnee

Woodland Middle School
--7000 Washington Street, Gurnee

Parents and the community are invited to visit the district, tour the schools and greet principals, assistant principals and other school and district administrators before the start of the 2010-2011 school year. Please note, teachers will not be present that day.

Curriculum Nights:
The start of the school year marks our Curriculum Nights. These nights are an opportunity for parents to meet their child’s teacher, learn about classroom expectations and receive an overview of the grade level curriculum.
Don’t forget your PTA! They will be hosting the Scholastic Book Fair in conjunction with each of the K-5 Curriculum Nights at 6:00 p.m.

The following dates have been set. All Curriculum Nights are from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Gifted Curriculum Night for grades 3-8 will be held at 6:30 p.m., August 25 at Woodland Intermediate School, 1115 N. Hunt Club Road, Gurnee.

Woodland Primary School
17366 W. Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake
Principal: Stacey Anderson

August 23: Kindergarten East
August 24: Kindergarten West
September 21: EC/WELE

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Woodland Elementary School
East - 17261 W. Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake
West - 17371 W. Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake
Principals: Dr. Kenneth Hyllberg, East
David Brown, West

September 14: 1st Grade
September 15: 2nd Grade
September 16: 3rd Grade

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Woodland Intermediate School
1115 Hunt Club Road, Gurnee
Principal: Michael Witkowksi

September 1: 4th Grade
September 2: 5th Grade

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Woodland Middle School
7000 Washington Street, Gurnee
Principal: Scott Snyder

August 30: 6th Grade
August 31: 7th Grade
September 7: 8th Grade

Back-to-School Physicals and Immunizations:
With the start of our 2010-2011 school year  days away, we want to remind you to schedule your children’s school physicals, immunizations and dental exams prior to the first day of school.  Children entering Headstart, kindergarten and 6th grade need school physicals. Up-to-date immunizations and tuberculosis skin tests are required for all preschool, kindergarten and 6th grade students and students who are new to Woodland. In addition, dental exams are required for children entering pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 6th grade. According to the Illinois School Code, children behind on their immunizations will be excluded from attending school. 

Woodland Educational Foundation Golf Outing:
I’m pleased to announce that the Woodland Educational Foundation raised $18,000 at the July golf outing held at Geneva National Golf Course in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Next year’s golf outing has been set for July 21, 2011.
The Woodland Educational Foundation creatively generates and distributes resources with which to enrich and enhance the opportunities of educational experiences of Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 students. The Foundation's intent is to create a mechanism to receive and disperse funds, properties and gifts of any kind to benefit the students and staff for innovative projects, student scholarships, support for supplemental projects and technology.
Interested in donating? Click here.
For more information about the Foundation, please contact Penny Dagley, Executive Director at (847) 553-7095.