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Volunteer activities
Many opportunities exists for school parents to take part in the education of their children and contribute to the overall school environment. Ways to participate include:
§ Tutoring – Assist students who just need some one-on-one tutorial instruction. Schedules can be flexible to meet both student and volunteer needs.
§ Accelerated Reader – Provide processing service to enable students to access library books that are correlated with the Accelerated Reader program.
§ Hot Lunch/Playground Supervision – Parent volunteers are need to serve hot lunch to students and supervise the playground during lunch recess, 11:15-11:55, 1 day per week.
§ Fundraising Committee – Plan and coordinate fundraising ideas for our school. Improve our existing fundraisers and develop new ideas to present to H&S. Assign chairpersons and coordinate volunteers for fundraisers. Reports to the H&S Association.
§ Marketing Committee - Promote our school, plan ways to attract new families, contact new and prospective families. Reports to/works with school principal.
§ Teachers’ Luncheon/Teacher Appreciation Week – Plan and prepare a lunch for teachers and staff. Duties include: menu planning, table presentation (theme), cooking, baking, setup and cleanup, arranging lunch monitors and playground help. Luncheon is scheduled twice per year.
§ Birthday Board – Update our birthday board in the multipurpose room. Maintain our school display and trophy cases.
§ Health Room Aide – Help our sick or injured students. A first-aid course is required. Contact Joan Johnson, 262-367-0063, with any questions.
§ Mass Mailing Help – Volunteer to stuff envelopes or help with mailings.
§ Scrip – Help sell and promote the SCRIP Program. This could be our school’s biggest fundraiser if everyone would use it!! SCRIP is gift certificates or cash cards purchased to use at grocery stores to gas stations and everything in between. It costs nothing extra: a $10.00 certificate costs $10.00. Merchants pay our school a percentage (2% to 15%) when you buy and use SCRIP from our school. Please use SCRIP; it pays!!
§ School Library Committee – Organize and file books. Help children with checkout on library day.
§ Dinner Auction Committee – Plan our annual dinner auction.
§ Teacher’s Treat Coordinator – Call volunteers to bring a treat for our teachers on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Treats can be home baked or store bought. Be creative!
§ Bakers/Treat Makers – Make or bake treats, as needed by various committees. Committee Chairpersons will let you know what and how much to make. Great opportunity for stay at home parents.
§ Spiritwear/Uniform Committee – Coordinate dates for Spiritwear and uniform sales. Send out notices, setup displays at functions, recycle gently used Spiritwear and uniforms. Collect, process and distribute orders.
§ Market Day – Volunteers are needed one Tuesday afternoon per month to help sort food and assist customers with their orders. Men are needed to help carry orders to vehicles.
§ Room Mothers & Fathers – Help our teachers plan holiday parties and special events. Assist children on picture days. Assist on vision and hearing test dates. One parent per grade.
§ Birthday Treat – Bake cupcakes for our birthday students, monthly.
§ Home Room Coordinator/Hospitality – Call volunteers to bring treats for the teachers and for other various events like Catholic Schools Week activities, Grandparents’ Day, Kindergarten Visitation Days, etc. Reports to H&S Association.
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