The PTA is only as good as its members and its volunteers.  We encourage the Shafer community to get involved and help us to support our teachers and children with school activities.  We appreciate any amount of time you can give.  

If you are interested in volunteering your time to help out in our school, there are different areas where your help may be needed. Teachers occasionally need help in the classrooms, in the cafeteria during lunch time, for chaperoning trips or some other activity. Please be aware that to help out in the school, a background check and child abuse clearance forms need to be completed and kept on file in the office. You can get the applications from the office.  Please be aware that the clearances will take up to 6 weeks to get back, so please submit them in a timely manner so that we can use you when you are needed.

This is an extremely rewarding experience for parents, students and teachers! If you have any questions on volunteering in the school, please contact any PTA Officer or Mr. Mudlock at wmudlock@nazarethasd.org. Look for the volunteer sheet to come home during the first week or two of school!

PTA Committee Descriptions 2011-2012 School Year

 

Each committee listed below has (or needs) a Chairperson to organize that specific committee.  If you are interested in volunteering for an event, please sign up for that Committee.  You will be contacted by the Chairperson to see when you are available.  The more parents that get involved in the school’s activities, the more successful they become.  Feel free to sign up for anything that looks interesting – your help makes a huge difference!

 

Bingo & Pig Races:  Assist with running bingo games and helping with pig races, or set-up/clean-up. 
Date:  Friday, November 11, 2011 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)
 

Book Publishing: Collate and laminate stories written by the students.  This may include lettering and design of title pages, computer work including typing and printing of author and title pages (Microsoft Office Word software required). Computer work, lettering, and design work can be done from home.

 

Box Tops/Campbell’s Soup Labels:  Count and tabulate box tops and Campbell soup labels by classroom/grade.  Submit box tops and soup labels for refunds.  Coordinate incentive program for students. 

 

Bulletin Board:  Help with decorating PTA bulletin board in the front hall each month.
 

Clerical:  This committee will be collating all weekly flyers and putting them in the “family folder” for each student on Thursday of every week.  The folders are then sent home on Friday.  There will be 2 to 4 members of the committee scheduled every week.  Hopefully with enough volunteers the members will be utilized once every month.

 

Egg Hunt and Breakfast:  Assist with serving breakfast and help with egg hunt, or set-up/clean-up. 
Date:  Saturday, March 31, 2012 (9:00 - 11:00 a.m.)

 

Fall Harvest Activities:  Help is needed with set-up, decorating, or clean-up for fall pumpkin painting. 
Date:  Friday, October 21, 2011 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

Fundraising:  Various fundraisers take place throughout the year.  Volunteers are needed to assist with the paperwork, collection of funds, and general record-keeping.

 

Game Show Night:  Assist with running games among students and their families. Set-up or clean-up help also needed. 
Date:  Friday, February 24, 2012 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

 

Holiday Shop / Vendor Event, Photos w/ Frosty / Fall Fundraiser Pick-Up:  Help children choose and purchase holiday gifts for family members. Act as Frosty’s Helper by taking photos of the students with Frosty, serving cocoa and donuts, or assisting the students in shopping for their holiday gifts. 
Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011 (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)

 

Hospitality:  Provide a store bought snack or refreshment for various PTA and school events.  This can be a year long, monthly, or single event commitment.  Availability required varies throughout the school year, so help out once, or all year-long.

 

Ice Cream Social: Help is needed with set-up, ice cream scooping and clean-up. Any supply donations (plastic spoons, plastic bowls and napkins) would be helpful too!  
Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

 

Market Day:  Help unload food orders, sort them and/or distribute them. Market Day is a monthly delivery (on Mondays) and takes approximately 2 - 2 1/2 hours each time (assistance for any amount of time between 4:00  and 6:00 p.m. would be helpful.)  Any help is appreciated, whether it’s for 1 month, 3 months, or more.  

Dates: 9/19/11, 10/17/11, 11/14/11, 12/12/11, 1/23/12, 2/13/12, 3/19/12, 4/16/12, and 5/21/12

Marquee:  Help maintain the marquee advertising Shafer's events on a monthly (or as-needed basis).

Membership: The Membership committee assists in generating new or renewed memberships in the Shafer PTA.  Members can be solicited from both withing and outside the Shafer community.  The committee is responsible for processing PTA membership applications and fees and sending membership cards home through the student. This committee is busy in September and October, but does not have a lot of activity during the rest of the school year.

Memorial Garden:   For anyone who enjoys gardening, help is needed in maintaining our beautiful Shafer Memorial Garden.  Any help is welcome, whether it’s planting flowers, applying mulch, or simply weeding/maintaining.  Help in getting donations to procure flowers, mulch and any other needed materials would also be appreciated.

 

Picture Day:  Help children get ready before their picture is taken (comb hair, etc.) Pictures are taken twice during the school year (October and April).

Reflections: Be a part of the ... "Together we can ..." 2011-2012 Reflection program.  This unique program allows our children to express themselves through different forms of art and receive recognition from doing so.  The pieces of art are gathered and judged this Fall with an awards ceremony and breakfast to follow in the Spring. Volunteers are needed to gather / sort the art as the deadline approaches in the Fall.  Assistance is also needed in the Spring for the ceremony.

 

RIF:  Volunteers are needed to come to school to help children select books that they can keep, free of charge, through RIF funding.  This is a great program for which we hold assemblies three times a year during the school year. (We also meet in September for about two hours to sort new books by grade level.)  Come help one time or participate in all three book distributions.  We look forward to adding new members to our committee!  
Dates: November or December, February, and May

 

School Store: Help students purchase various goods at our school’s store. Assist younger children with counting money and paying for items. Each grade shops on a different day, so help out with your child’s grade!  7:45 - 8:30 a.m.

                       

Shafer Festival:  A great outdoor night of fun, food and games. Help is needed with set-up (1 hour prior to the festival), running a game or craft, at the prize table or tricky tray table, selling food, etc. Two shifts 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. and 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. and clean -up (approximately one hour after the event). 
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012 (4:00 - 7:00 p.m.) * A LOT OF HELP IS NEEDED!! *

 

Spaghetti Dinner and Hoops: Help is needed for set-up, serving food and clean-up, as well as for supervising students who choose to shoot baskets in the gym. Servers are needed for one, two or three-hour shifts. 
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

 

Staff Appreciation: Food items need to be prepared or bought to show our school staff how much we appreciate them!!  Staff Appreciation week is the first full week in May 2012 ~ help is needed for a one-day event.