Duties of
Volunteers:
Homeroom Parent – This is a wonderful and
fulfilling volunteer position. Responsibilities should be
well delegated among as many families as possible. It is
assumed that all families will function as assistants to the
homeroom parent. We are always seeking new faces for this
job; so don’t be afraid to volunteer if you haven’t sought out
this position before. Any “new” Homeroom Parent will be
given a “Point of Contact” person to assist them, whether it be
another parent from your class that has experienced the grade
before, or last year’s Homeroom Parent. As the
Homeroom Parent, your responsibilities include the following:
· Meet
with your teacher early in the year to introduce yourself as
their Homeroom Parent and determine your teacher’s expectations
of your role. Determine with your teacher any
events/parties for the upcoming school year. Touch base
with your teacher on a regular basis and keep the lines of
communication open.
· Recruit
Assistant homeroom parents from your class to head up
events/parties. This can be done at the beginning of the
year or several weeks before the event/party.
· Establish
a budget and collect monies (usually $20 - $25) at the beginning
of the year to support events/parties/teacher birthday/teacher
appreciation gift/end of year gift, etc. It is not the
position of the Homeroom Parent to “fund” any expenses
from their own pockets. On very rare occasions, you may
need to request an additional nominal amount from the families.
· Act
as a liaison between the teacher and the parents to remind
families of upcoming events when the teacher requests this of
you. You will receive an e-mail distribution list of all
the families in your classroom.
· As
requested by the teacher, you may be involved with helping out
on the class gift for the Gala or Dinner Dance.
Teacher Aide – A wonderful position, and in
some cases, you may have direct contact with the students.
In this position you may be involved in any number of tasks
assisting the teacher with their day-to-day operations. It
may involve filing, “prep” work for upcoming projects,
photocopying, etc…. these responsibilities vary from grade to
grade. You will establish an agreeable schedule with your
teacher.
Computer Class Aide – This is a important
position with lots of interaction with the students.
Computer Aides are especially key with the lower grades just
learning the finer points of computers and how to type.
It’s also a great way to learn new tricks yourself!
Library Class Aide – A fun way to interact
with the children. You will help them find books to check
out and assist the librarian with checking in/out books and
filing.
TLC Administrator – Nursing experience is
desired, but not absolutely necessary for position. As TLC
Administrator, you will help out any students who are not
feeling well and will clean-up “boo-boos” as necessary.
The TLC Coordinator/Nurse of the school will give the finer
points of this position in detail.
Receptionist – The function of this
position is to greet all visitors and volunteers to the school.
You will be stationed in the office and operate the buzzer to
admit visitors to the school. The receptionist will ensure
that the volunteer sign-in sheet and student sign-out sheet are
completed properly and completely. The school secretary,
as needed, may assign other duties.
Photocopier- Photocopiers operate out of a
separate photocopy room and are key to
the ongoing operations of the teachers. On your given day,
you will find, next to the machine, any teacher’s directions for
photocopying certain materials for classroom instruction.
Once copying is complete, you will place the copied materials in
the teacher’s mailboxes. Our teachers rely heavily on the
photocopiers. Training on the photocopy machine will be
offered for any new photocopiers.
Attendance Checker- This is a very simple,
but necessary task whereby you will ensure that the school has
been contacted by the parents/guardian of any student marked
absent by the teacher. Calls are made in the morning
to families that have not contacted the school.
Brown Envelope Stuffer- Though we now have
e-mail blasts every week, occasionally it is necessary to send
home the brown envelope on Wednesdays with hardcopies of
information for each family. The Brown Envelope Stuffer
will spend, usually less than an hour, stuffing the family
envelopes on Wednesday mornings to be sent home with the
students. Contact the school secretary the day before to
see if it is necessary to come in that week.
Morning Recess- If you drive in your child
to school each morning and have a few extra moments, this is the
job for you. Assist the teacher assigned to morning recess
in monitoring the students in the lot and patrolling the
unloading of students from cars and busses.
LUNCH
PROGRAM:
Lunch Recess- A fun way to interact with
the entire student body as well as with your own child.
You will assist the teacher assigned to lunch recess in
monitoring the students in the outdoor lot. On rainy days,
you will assist inside the building, patrolling the classrooms
along with the 8th grade
safeties. This is a great volunteer position for those
with toddlers. Warning…you will tie a lot of shoelaces!
Meal Preparation- Our lunch program is
totally volunteers willing to prepare and offer hot meals for
our children. You would be responsible for arriving early
enough to prepare the meals for the day and distribute the hot
meals to the students during the lunch periods. Training
will be provided. You would not
be responsible for
purchasing food items.
Counter Helper- This is another lunch
program with lots of student interaction. The Counter
Helpers “man” the counter where students purchase beverages and
assorted snacks and desserts during the lunch period.
Counter helpers are also responsible for providing the school
secretary with an accurate inventory (on certain days) of items
that need to be replenished.