Annual Giving Campaign

Description

One of the primary income generators for the PTA is our direct appeal fundraising program. Each Lafayette family is asked to support the wonderful programs at Lafayette.

Estimated people needed: 30-35

Different roles needed, including services

• Prepare schedule and content for solicitation letter

• Keep track of contributions and send thank-yous

• Work with Treasurer to manage PayPal and online payments and corporate matches.

Time Commitment: Varied, ongoing. Fundraising drive likely to occur in September and October.

Check out the Annual Give Campaign page.

Gardening

Description

This team is focused on supporting the school garden as a component of the curriculum. School beautification through greening of the schoolyard and perimeter of the school is a big priority as well.

Estimated people needed: All are welcome!

Different roles needed, including services: We hold gardening days once a month (typically on the first Sunday), from 9-10:30 AM. Please join us! No experience needed. Kids are welcome. If you have gardening tools and gloves, please bring them.

Time Commitment: Varied, ongoing.

Hospitality

Responsible for setting up coffee and donuts during drop-off on the 1st day of school and at Spirit Fridays (the morning of the last Friday of the month) as well as light snacks and beverages for monthly PTA meetings.

Lafayette gives

An evening of charity during the holidays dedicated to giving back to the seniors in our neighborhood. Items of need are collected and packaged while families create cards for each recipient. Packages are then delivered through The Richmond Neighborhood Center.

Language Translators

Description

Parent volunteers to help translate PTA documents into various languages.

Estimated people needed: 2-6

Different roles needed, including services: Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese translation services.

Time commitment: 0-2 hrs/week depending on the amount of information to be translated.

PTA Membership

Description

This committee manages the PTA membership process at Lafayette.

Estimated people needed: 2-3

Different roles needed, including services: Preparation of membership materials to be distributed when school starts, collection of all membership forms and dues, input of member info and volunteer preferences into master excel file; completion and issuance of membership cards, targeted recruitment of members during parent-teacher conference week and at other points during the year

Time commitment: Approximately 2-3 hours a week during the fall, 2 hours a month in the spring; work can be done when convenient at home.

Read-a-thon

Description

Annual fundraiser in which students set reading goals covering several weeks, and gather pledges for meeting their goals.

Estimated people needed: 1-5

Different roles needed, including services: One chair to organize logistics, sending out informational flyers, preparing pledge sheets, calculating pledge amounts and maintaining spreadsheet totals.

Time commitment: For the chair, several hours of preparation, spread over the course of about a month. One week of concentrated pledge calculating. In the final week, several hours collecting money, calculating totals, updating spreadsheet.

Room Parents

Description

Act as liaison between the class and the teacher/PTA/school to help coordinate classroom volunteers, teacher gifts/appreciation class parties, Stop Drop and Go, events and field trips.

Estimated people needed: 2-3 parents/class

Different roles needed, including services: The room parent will act as point contact in each classroom and will help to improve communications between the school and the individual class parents. This person will be responsible for forwarding emails to the entire class to make sure everyone is kept in the loop. They may also help to recruit volunteers for field trips and programs such as Stop, Drop and Go. Some party coordination/teacher appreciation may also be involved.

Time commitment: 5 minutes/week – 2 hours/week depending.

School Musical

Description

Theatrical performance–usually a musical production run entirely by the parents towards the end of the school year. All students are encouraged to audition and everyone is given a part.

Estimated people needed: Number varies depending on the cast size…20-30 people

Different roles needed, including services: Stage crew, costumes, makeup, Asst. Director, childcare for rehearsals, set design, music, lighting crew, casting, props.

Time commitment: Average of 3hrs/week during the months of the play.

restaurant partnership / smart money

Description

A community building partnership that supports our local businesses who then donate a percentage of sales back to Lafayette. Previous partners have included Giorgio’s Pizzeria; Bill’s Place; Books, Inc.; and Sports Basement. Smart Money has included programs such as Box Tops and Amazon Smile.

Estimated people needed: 1-2

Different roles needed, including services: Update and maintain yearly membership cards (eScrip cards), collect and submit Box Tops and Labels for Education, and promote these Smart Money programs at the beginning of the year and periodically as needed.

Time commitment: Just a few hours a month

Spirit Wear

Show your Dolphin pride! Promote school spirit by selling and managing inventory of our Lafayette branded merchandise. Fill orders as needed and set up a table to sell items on the last Friday of each month (Spirit Fridays) as well as at any other PTA sponsored events. Expand the committee to include being responsible for school spirit. Organize Spirit Fridays on the last Friday of each month which could include playing music during drop-off and promoting theme days for students (crazy hair, silly socks, sports team, etc.).

Stop, Drop & Go

The award-winning Stop, Drop & Go program enables students to be dropped off safely in front of the school while keeping traffic and parking issues at a minimum. We greet about 150 families every morning and unload 8 to 10 cars per minute. The program’s success is due to the commitment and shared responsibility of all the parents at our school. Each classroom has two rotations scheduled each year.

Check out the Stop, Drop & Go page.

Teacher/Staff Appreciation

Description

The Teacher/Staff Appreciation Committee seeks opportunities to acknowledge our Teachers and Staff through several activities during the year. The funding from the PTA has allowed us to buy dinner for the teachers at “Back to School Night,” provide snacks periodically at their staff meetings, purchase coffee tokens for their coffee machine and small snacks in their mailboxes during teacher/parent conference week in the fall and lastly purchase soaps and lotions for the teacher/staff bathrooms. The biggest event is in May with the Teacher/Staff Appreciation Luncheon. Your input and ideas would add to how we expand our activities throughout the year. Wouldn’t you enjoy the opportunity to say “Thanks” through these PTA sponsored activities? It brings such gratitude and smiles of thanks from all.

Estimated people needed: Varies depending on the activity, 2-4 or the staff meeting food set up. 1 person to distribute toiletries in the bathroom, 2 times a year. For the luncheon 5-7 people, this is spread out throughout the morning with decorating, set up, serving and clean up.

Different roles needed, including services: Roles vary throughout the year. It can be sending emails out to parents to help with setting up snacks for the staff meetings, themes for the teacher luncheon, decorating staff lounge for the luncheon. We’d love you to brainstorm with us to make a plan for the year. We meet about 1-3 times a year and have often done much of our communication vial emails and phone calls. This is a low key involvement with lots of gratification in return! We’d love the opportunity to discuss other ways to say “Thanks” to our teachers and staff. This could range from a special theme or grade level activities organized by parents in each grade. Lots of ideas and simple ways to execute these activities it comes from the parents at Lafayette.

Time commitment: Volunteers needed to help out in any way possible. This committee does not require you to sign up for the entire year. At any time you could contact us with an idea or help out for one event.

Website

Description

Lafayette PTA website with calendar, events, committee information, photos, updates, etc.

Estimated people needed: 2

Different roles needed, including services: Collecting content, updating website with content, maintaining website.

Time commitment: Varies, 2-4 hours per month

YEARBOOK

Description

It’s a collection of photographs of events, classroom/staff, field trips, after school programs and advertising for Lafayette School – all put together in a beautiful yearbook.

Estimated people needed: 8

Different roles needed, including services: Collecting photographs from all classrooms, laying out the yearbook, distributing flyer reminders, confirming advertisers and collecting/filling family orders.

Time commitment: Collecting photographs throughout the year, before deadline 20-25 hours for layout.