Volunteering at Hunters Woods
 Three for Me
A Little Means a Lot!
It’s simple! Our goal is to have you pledge and contribute 3 hours of your time over the course of the school year to help the school.
Studies show that involved parents are a key factor in children's success in schools. Our goal is to provide a forum for each parent to participate in making Hunters Woods an extraordinary experience for their child and their family. Three for Me is a PTA program designed to effectively involve parents and families in support of children and their education. We are asking you to dedicate three hours of your time to the school. This can be done in the home, at school, or in the community.
For further information, please contact threeforme@hwpta.org.
Immediate need for volunteers will be posted on the PTA home page.
Below are a few of the volunteer opportunities available. For further information on volunteering, please contact volunteer@hwpta.org, or you may contact HWES PTA committee chairs directly. Committee Chairs email addresses are available on the Officers and Committees page.
Also, we are currently in need of several PTA Chairs. All PTA Chair positions can be shared by co-chairs or groups, why not ask a friend to work on something with you? Find out more.
Classroom Volunteers
Please sign up in your child's classroom during Back to School night or contact your child's teacher. An index of HWES teacher email addresses can be found on this page of the HWES website.
Classroom Assistance
This volunteer function provides support to the teachers in a variety of ways such as working one-on-one with students, managing book club orders, making copies and putting up bulletin boards. This position can involve helping weekly, biweekly or monthly based on the individual teacher's needs.
Museum Volunteers
Several parents from each class are needed to display class museum projects. Two museums are scheduled for this academic year.
Room Parents
The PTA room parents assist teachers with classroom activities and coordinate class parents to help with school events and projects. Events and projects include, winter parties, Writers' Celebration, museum set-up, and organizing year-end parties.
Silent Auction Basket Coordinator
Each class puts together a themed basket for the Silent Auction. The coordinator works with the teacher and students to decide on a theme, requests donations appropriate to the theme from the families in the class, collects the donated items, and arranges them in a container for the auction.
In-School Assistance
Art Volunteers
Assist our art teachers by helping to prepare and put up displays of the children's work around the school. May also involve classroom participation if needed.
Clinic
Volunteers are desperately needed in one of the busiest places in the school! Assistants are needed daily during lunch/recess time. Help is also needed during health screening in the fall. Training is provided.
Copying/Risograph
Volunteers are needed to help with copying on an as-needed basis. The risograph is a machine that makes rapid, high quantity copies (usually needed for Tuesday Folder flyers). Training is provided.
Library Volunteers
Volunteers can be trained to assist with re-shelving and shelf-checking. Neatness and organization mean that students and teachers can usually find the titles they are looking for! Special projects involving the catalogue database can sometimes be done on your own time. Other projects come up from time to time.
Odyssey of the Mind
An after school program in which teams are formed and coached by parent volunteer coaches for competition in creative thinking and problem solving. This fun and rewarding program requires a once-a-week commitment with additional time required as the competition draws near.
Office Help
If you can answer a phone, greet and direct people, make copies, and file this is the volunteer position for you. A ready smile and an extra pair of hands are always needed! The commitment is on an as-needed basis.
Phonemic Awareness
This important program is for our youngest readers who have been targeted for additional phonemic assistance. Volunteers will work with small groups of children, helping to develop necessary skills through games and activities. Training and materials are provided.
Student Photo Aids
A few parent volunteers are needed to help out on student picture days.
Technology Lab
These volunteers help the students use the computer lab under the direction of the computer lab teacher.
Educational Support
Grant and Awards Writing
This committee needs parents with some writing or grant experience to help the school identify and apply for grants to supplement the school budget and/or prepare applications for awards to staff and volunteers.
Legislative Review
Keep current on school legislative issues and assist in letter writing campaigns to voice PTA views as needed.
Mentors & Tutors
The members of this committee will work with Hunters Woods students that need extra academic assistance in the different subject areas. The chairperson may also perform tasks such as advertising in the Hunters Horn and the Mustang News to make parents and students aware that tutoring is available and respond to requests for a tutor with a name and phone number.
Reading Buddies
Parent volunteers are needed to read to students. The reading specialist runs this program and she could use some assistance. The reading specialist will match parents with students.
School Technology Committee
This committee reviews the school plan and monitors the implementation of technology throughout the curriculum. Recommendations are also made as the school looks to incorporate new technologies.
PTA/School Support
After School Activities
Volunteers are needed to help with student attendance for the first two weeks of each session and to help make phone calls when a program must be cancelled or rescheduled. Volunteers are also needed to conduct several after school programs such as Wordmasters, Chess Club, and Hands on Science.
Bakers
This group provides baked goods and other food donations for various school functions throughout the year. This is an excellent opportunity for parents who want to contribute, but are unable to participate during school hours.
Book Fair (Fall and Spring)
Book fair coordinators are looking for volunteers to help set up and pack up the fall and spring book fairs, assist children in book selection and act as cashiers.
Box Tops
This volunteer opportunity entails counting and grouping box tops and soup labels according to manufacturers directions.
Fall Harvest Festival (Fall)
The PTA sponsors a Fall Festival with games and food. Volunteers are needed for preparation and planning of the festival, including setting up and cleaning up after the event. Additional volunteers are needed to staff food, game and activity booths (please sign up for these opportunities in you classroom at Back to School Night).
Family Fun Nights
Family fun events such as the Talent Share, Sock Hops and Bingo need volunteers to assist in preparation, during the event and with clean up. These events make our Hunters Woods community special, but they need your support to be successful. Please sign up to donate your time and creativity!
Gift Wrap Sales (Fall)
The Sally Foster gift-wrap sales campaign, our largest fundraiser, takes place the first month of school. Volunteers are needed to help check order forms and verify money totals. Also, when orders arrive in early November, volunteers are needed to help with distribution.
Hospitality
Volunteers are needed to help set up coffee and donated food items at various school functions (PTA meetings, Principal's coffees, orientations, new comers coffee) and/or clean up following the event.
Hunters Woods Apparel Sales
Help with the selling of Hunters Woods t-shirts and sweatshirts at various school functions. Check and distribute orders to classrooms.
International Festival
This committee will organize and present the exciting International Celebration, an evening that showcases countries and cultures from around the world.
Literary Magazine (Snickerdoodle)
Volunteers are needed to provide publicity, administrative tasks, snacks or production assistance for the school Literary magazine, Snickerdoodle.
Lost and Found
Help to sort through lost items and return labeled items to their owners.
Outdoor Beautification
This committee manages the outdoor beautification of the school grounds.
Plant Sale
This committee conducts seasonal plant sales.
Reflections (Fall)
Volunteers advertise and promote the Reflections Program. They collect applications and finished pieces of art, music, or writing to be judged at the school level.
Silent Auction (Winter)
This year the auction will be a stand-alone event. This committee will include volunteers who will obtain auction items, coordinate with classroom coordinators for baskets, plan food & decorations, plan for the children's movie night that will occur during the auction, set up the auction room the day before the auction and help on the day of the event.
Sixth Grade Luncheon (Spring)
This committee organizes the sixth grade luncheon held in the spring. This includes providing decorations, entertainment, food, set up and clean up.
Staff and Teacher Appreciation
This committee will organize activities and tokens of appreciation for our excellent staff throughout the year. These include the Teacher Back to School Breakfast in August; Bus Drivers/Crossing Guards, Clinic Aids, Custodial/Cafeteria Workers, Office Administrative Staff, and Principals appreciation days; and the annual Teacher Appreciation Luncheon held in May.
SWAT team
The SWAT team is a resource that the PTA may use for last minute, one-time requests. If you aren't sure of your schedule, but would like to help for quick, simple tasks, sign up for the SWAT team to receive emails of needs. Examples would be to purchase plastic tablecloth rolls and deliver to Hunters Woods the next morning (purchases are reimbursed by the PTA). Come in before an event for an hour to decorate. Pick up paper to deliver to Hunters Woods. It could be anything, and if you can help, just reply to the email that you're available, if you're busy, that's ok too. (Wearing Black is optional :-)
Yearbook Committee (Fall-Winter)
This committee will photograph and chronicle events and daily activities at Hunters Woods for use in the yearbook. Volunteers will work with the art teachers to compile and organize the yearbook during the winter. Volunteers are also needed to collect and process the yearbook orders in the spring. |
