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- What counts for volunteer hours?
- Why do we count volunteer hours?
- Where do we log in our volunteer hours?
- Who do I contact if I would like to volunteer?
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What counts for volunteer hours?
1. Formal and informal PTA planning/organization time: officer activities,
committee member activities; all planning, organizing and discussing PTA
work.
2. Attendance at all PTA board and general meetings, Volunteer teas, etc.
3. Parent supervision of student’s homework counts as “volunteer hours”.
4. Driving students to extracurricular activities and chaperoning them.
5. Chaperoning any school-sponsored activities, field trips, competitions.
6. Any participation in Parent/Teacher conferences, IEP conferences.
7. Parents providing time anywhere on campus – working in the office or
library, helping in the classroom, tutoring, helping with talent shows,
working concession stands, taking tickets, belonging to Band Boosters,
Athletic Boosters, etc.
8. Involvement in any on-school, or school-sponsored, activity in which
parents participate, attend, or supervise.
9. At lower elem. level, participation in Reading or Math nights at school.
10. Serving as playground or lunchroom monitors (unpaid).
11. Telephoning, working on phone trees, planning sessions at home.
12. E-mailing from home, planning activities, etc.
13. Setting up and maintaining websites.
14. Baking, making decorations or favors at home.
15. Driving to retail store and time spent shopping for such items.
16. Student volunteer hours after school, in the classroom, helping a
teacher.
17. Student volunteer hours tutoring others, if after school, even if part
of Beta, National Honor Society or other organization that requires
volunteer hours.
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Why do we count volunteer hours?
SACS (Southern Accreditation for Colleges and Schools) Accreditation teams
for both the individual school, and the entire district, look carefully at
documented volunteer hours.
Potential candidates for the PTA “School of Excellence” award must have
documented hours.
National and State PTA look at individual school volunteer hours.
Parental pride at the school level in the number of volunteer hours
accumulated.
The St. Tammany Parish School System computes a dollar amount of all
schools volunteer hours ($3,446,019.50 for 2003-2004) and recognizes the
District PTA each fall for this service.
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Where do we log in our volunteer hours?
You may sign in the Volunteer Log book at the front office, return the
Volunteer Log sheet from the newsletter or send an email with your monthly
total to HoneyIslandPTA@yahoo.com (click the icon on our homepage).
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Who do I contact if I would like to volunteer?
We would love to have you volunteer with our students and teachers at Honey
Island. The date for the Volunteer Tea is set for 09/14/06 at 10:00 a.m. in
the school cafeteria. Or feel free to send an email to Susan Carter,
President, at honeyislandpta@yahoo.com.
Thank you for your willingness to be involved in your child's education by
providing your time and talents!
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