Just remember, the main aim is to get every family interested and involved in their child’s education. It is a good idea to have a wide range of options for volunteers to choose from, including some tasks that can be done from home or outside normal working hours.
Ways volunteers can help
- Attend to PTA meetings
- Help with sausage sizzles
- Help during class swimming sessions
- Listen to children reading
- Glue work into junior class books
- Be a helper at the fair or hangi
- Take children for games in break times
- Disco helpers
- Help produce the school newsletter
- Volunteer for a parent group committee
- Be a room parent
- Help your child practice reading and maths
- Volunteer for a parent group event
- Do baking
- Attend after school functions with your child
- Help plant flowers at school
- Join your child for lunch at school
- Do things for a teacher from home
- Share your skill or talent at school
- Help plan a school fundraiser
- Volunteer to do things from home
- Make copies of resources
- Sort and staple for a teacher
- Attend Parent/Teacher conferences
- Read to a classroom
- Help in the library
- Attend a BOT meeting
- Working Bees at school
- Attend Parent Information evenings
- Completing a parent survey
- Help with school trips
