New Volunteer Hours Tracking
In an effort to simplify tracking your volunteer hours, we have created a new tracking sheet that will be pasted on the back of each family’s Friday folder. The goal is that you can log any hours that you’ve contributed on a weekly basis, so that you don’t have to go back mid year and try to remember what you did and when. Please let us know if you have any questions about this new form!
Mark your Calendars!
Mark your calendars because you won’t want to miss our first of only 5 Parents Club Meetings this school year! On Friday September 23rd we are looking forward to updating on you several exciting changes that we have been working on. Included will be changes to the structure of the PC Board, changes to the PC budgets and volunteer opportunities that will make volunteering easier on you and your checkbook! We will also have our usual social hour before and after the business meeting with great food and beverages. This always proves to be a great time to socialize and get to know other families within the school. An agenda will be provided in advance and if there is something in particular that you’d like to hear about or see covered at the meeting, please let Jeanette Rafferty know ASAP.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Hopefully you had a chance to review upcoming volunteer opportunities at our wonderful Back to School Social last week! Below are the current list of opportunities that we need help with. If you are interested in any of these fun and fulfilling positions, please contact Jeanette Rafferty.
Room Parents for the following grades:
Kindergarten
5th Grade
6th Grade
This is a wonderful opportunity in a very fun and fulfilling role! Get to know other families in your class better and work with your teacher to help organize classroom needs and fun parties. More details are can be made available, and in person training will be provided to all room parents in the coming weeks.
Hot Lunch Chair:
Don’t be overwhelmed by the title, this is a straight forward opportunity and a great way to get your hours in for the year! The chair selects and orders hot lunch once per month for the Wednesday hot lunch program. They work with the office to obtain student order counts and places the order with the Camas School District (we have a long term relationship with the contact at the school district who is easy and great to work with!). Organize or assign a volunteer to pick up hot lunch for Liberty Middle School Cafeteria every Wednesday at 10:45. Manage volunteer schedules for both prep and serving on Wednesdays. Maintain a stock of basic supplies such as serve ware and condiments. Please contact me if you are interested.
Hot lunch Helpers:
Volunteers are needed to help prepare, set up, serve and clean up on Wednesdays for hot lunch beginning on September 14th.
Pizza and Subway Fundraisers:
Placing weekly Pizza and Subway orders each week. This can be done by one person or shared by 2-3. Please contact Jeanette Rafferty for more details on this easy weekly opportunity.
The Diamond Tea
Have you purchased your tickets for this wonderful event yet? Check out http://www.thediamondtea.com/ for more information on this amazing event that benefits PCA! There are also several fun volunteer opportunities that you can be a part of. Opportunities to get together with other gals from the school and prepare for the event!! Contact Jeanette Rafferty for more information!
Parents In Prayer
Parents in Prayer resumed this first week and will continue every Friday morning after drop off. Get together with other parents to pray the Rosary and enjoy fellowship and refreshments. What a lovely way to end a week, praying for our children!
Yearbook Update
Yearbooks were supposed to be mailed to families who ordered them at home over the summer. Unfortunately there were some unforeseen delays and they will not be delivered for another few weeks. They will come to the school and will be hand delivered to each family that ordered. We apologize for the confusion. Please contact Jeanette Rafferty if you have any questions.
Special Thank You's...
We'd like to extend another big thank you to Nelly Fullard-Leo, John and Elisa Hynds, Russ and Marianne Pachl, Greg and Claire Houlding, Eric Rafferty, Kim Pearson, Rob and Brandy Affleck, Chad and Joanna Hammerstrom, Hillary Brotherton, Scott and Tamar Parker, Adrian and Angela Maitland, Scott Spencer, Jesse Stiltner and Tami Malone for all their hard work on the Back to School Ice Cream Social. Additionally to anyone who helped clean up at the end of the event, thank you so much for lending a hand! This event couldn't have been the success that it was without all of your time and efforts, so again THANK YOU!
We also want to thank PCA parent Michael Morton for being available this year to sell his delicious dogs from River City Hot Dogs. It was so fun to have an extra food component this year and it seemed as though everyone enjoyed this addition to the event! Mr. Morton, also generously donated a portion of his proceeds back to PCA, thank you so much!!
We hope that you all had a great first week of school! It was great to see all of your smiling faces and we look forward to wonderful year with you. If there is anything that we can do to make your first month back to school better, please feel free to reach out to any one of your Parents Club Board Members. Have a great weekend!
Sincerely In Christ,
Jeanette & Eric Rafferty
PCA Parents Club Presidents
Sincerely In Christ,
Jeanette & Eric Rafferty
PCA Parents Club Presidents