Opportunities by Schedule
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Click on the link that best represents the amount of time you think you can spare, and check out what volunteer positions are available. Then click to email the appropriate person, who will give you more information, answer your questions, and sign you up.
Once a Month In-school Commitment
Infrequent In-school Commitment
Work from Home - Infrequent Commitment
Work from Home - More Frequent Commitment
Questions or comments? Please contact the Laurel PTO President at president@laurelpto.org.
Weekly In-school Commitment
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Help children develop a love of books and reading! Check books in and out of the library for your child’s class; shelve books as required during their 30 minute time slot. Training provided to all volunteers.
Contact: library_vol_coordinator@laurelpto.org
More than one in four Laurel students have hot lunch every day, and we need two volunteers at each campus every weekday to run a successful program. If your child uses hot lunch, please consider volunteering; even once a month is helpful. Training provided.
Contact: hot_lunch@laurelpto.org
Your child’s teacher will let you know about his or her needs for support in the classroom. Having parent helpers enables teachers to spend more time with students in small groups, targeting specific needs. You could do be asked to be a reading buddy, play math games with the kids, do a special project, and more. Just discuss with your teacher how much time you can commit!
Contact: hrpcoordinator@laurelpto.org
Once a Month In-school Commitment
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Art Volunteers will stand available (with some notice) to help with projects to be done in class or at home, such as helping refill paint pallets, making black glue, refilling bottles of glue, etc. The Art Studio Volunteer Coordinator will reach out to these volunteers as needed.
At certain times of the year, the Art Studio Coordinator will solicit volunteers for projects that require more adult assistance (paper mache, for example).Contact: art@laurelpto.org
Art in Action
Art in Action is an enriching, engaging, hands-on curriculum that teaches art history, art appreciation, and art techniques. The docent volunteer teaches the lessons by leading a discussion and an art project. There are 12 lessons over the course of the year. No experience is necessary and training is provided. Assistant docent positions also available.Contact: art_in_action@laurelpto.org
Having parent helpers enables teachers to spend more time with students in small groups, targeting specific needs. You could do be asked to be a reading buddy, play math games with the kids, do a special project, and more. Just discuss with your teacher how much time you can commit! Your child’s teacher will let you know about his or her needs for support in the classroom.
Contact: hrpcoordinator@laurelpto.org
Help children check books in and out of the library; shelve books as required. Training provided to all volunteers. Check books in and out of the library; shelve books as required for a 30 minute time slot with your child's class. Training provided to all volunteers.
Infrequent In-school Commitment
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Help your classroom teacher coordinate volunteers, party preparation, send classroom and PTO announcements via email.
Contact: hrpcoordinator@laurelpto.org
Help relieve teachers on occasion by performing yard duty when they have staff meetings, luncheons, or other.
Contact: yard_duty_relief@laurelpto.org
Help the lost & found stay organized. Take a few minutes to hang up clothing and check for items that have been tagged with names and help return them. Once every three months, help wash remaining clothing and take it to a shelter to donate.
Contact: lost_and_found@laurelpto.org
Show our staff how much we care! Host various events and provide gifts of appreciation throughout the year to help honor Laurel teachers, aides, and administrative staff for all that they do to educate and nurture our children. Volunteers needed to help donate homemade and store bought food items for events and support activities associated with Staff Appreciation Week.
Contact: staff_appreciation@laurelpto.org
Design this year’s Spirit Wear and set up our online store with our provider. Advertise Spirit Wear at school events, such as the Back-to-School Coffee and Fall Family Picnic. Deliver Spirit Wear through teachers’ boxes.
Contact: spiritwear@laurelpto.org
The Safe Routes at Laurel team works to improve biking and pedestrian culture and safety at Laurel. They sponsor the annual 3rd Grade Bike Rodeo, bike and pedestrian education on campus, and a variety of bike/walk/roll to School days. Contact them at saferoutes@laurelpto.org to learn more.
One Chunk of Time Commitment
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- Caring & Sharing
- STEAM Fair
- Fall Family Picnic
- Pop! Pop! Read a Lot! Challenge
- Spring Fling
- Art Show
- Picture Day
- Book Fair
- Field Trip Chaperone
- Yearbook
- Early Bird Breakfasts - Sign up to bring a healthy, homemade breakfast for needed students. Make the food at home and drop it off before school in the office in individual brown bags for about 12-20 students.
- Holiday Drives - This important committee runs the Thanksgiving Holiday Drive in November and and Giving Tree in December to collect gift cards and gifts for Laurel School families in need. Spend just a couple of hours to sort the gifts, and help bring a smile to students’ faces at the holidays.
- Ongoing Needs - Take care of any ongoing needs that arise for Laurel families in need.
Contact: caring_and_sharing@laurelpto.org
This incredible event relies on almost 200 parents to act as teachers for one morning in the Spring and run workshops in art and science. Not an artist? Not a scientist? Not a problem! Each workshop comes with a full set of instructions, a supply list, and information from previous volunteers with tips and advice.
The STEAM Fair committee also has positions that require a bigger time commitment, including helping to recruit and manage volunteers; data processing of workshop preferences for kids; securing donations; and general coordination.
Contact: steam@laurelpto.org
Organize the first community event of the year, when we all get together at Lower campus to reconnect and meet new friends. Volunteers needed for set up, manning activities, and clean up. Prior to the event and outside of school hours, you can help by purchasing items needed for the event.
Contact: fall_family_picnic@laurelpto.org
Pop! Pop! Read a Lot! Challenge
Help put on the annual literary event and fundraiser by planning, organizing, and facilitating the reading challenge, tracking, advertising, and collecting donations from reading sponsors, as well as plan the lemonade and popcorn celebration at the close of the challenge.
Contact: pop_pop@laurelpto.org
Coordinate the final all-school event of the year, where we say farewell to those students moving on and hear students sing! Volunteers needed to arrange food trucks, help set up, clean up, and coordinate the music/Art Show portions of the evening.
Contact: spring_fling@laurelpto.org
Volunteers are needed to work with Art Show Committee Co-chairs to select and display student artwork and get ready for this popular springtime event with set-up and take-down responsibilities.
Contact: art_show@laurelpto.org
One or two volunteers needed to help on picture day, for the full day.
Contact: picture_day@laurelpto.org
Organizes, manages, sets-up, and works at the week-long book sale in the Fall and Spring. Volunteers also needed to help advertise, schedule class visits, and organize volunteers.
Contact: book_fair@laurelpto.org
Field Trip Chaperone
Self explanatory! The PTO funds field trips for every grade at Laurel School. Your classroom teacher will let you know if and when chaperones are needed.Contact: hrpcoordinator@laurelpto.org
Join the yearbook team to work with our yearbook provider, who will start our yearbook by populating with class photos and student portraits. Manage the yearbook process, take pictures at all-school events to use in creating school pages, and coordinate with HRPs who will make class candid picture spreads. Advertise the yearbook for sales at the end of the year (via newsletter, through HRPs, etc.).
Contact: yearbook@laurelpto.org
Work from Home - Infrequent Commitment
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- Kinder & New Family Welcome
- Caring & Sharing
- Graphics
- Spanish Language Translation
- Carpool/Car Line
- Box Tops
- Web Management
Become a "go-to" family for new members of our school community. Answer questions, point them in the right direction and all around offer a helping hand. Come along and make the new kinders feel especially welcome at our Q+A+Play in August in the kindergarten yard.
Contact: welcome@laurelpto.org
Donate to drives to help Laurel families in need.
Contact: caring_and_sharing@laurelpto.org
Help design and produce logos/designs for Laurel collateral (e.g., forms, flyers, handouts, website, newsletter, posters, etc.).
Contact: graphics@laurelpto.org
Help translate our Laurel collateral (see above) for distribution to our Spanish-speaking parents and immersion students.
Contact: spanish@laurelpto.org
Organizes and manages the car line system at Laurel, including sign distribution.
Contact: carpool@laurelpto.org
Organize the collection of Box Tops, one of the oldest fundraising traditions at Laurel. Help prepare newsletter content to promote the twice yearly collections and mail in the clipped box tops by the fall and spring due dates. Lastly, promote the e-Box Tops program, a program that allows us to collect Box Tops when parents shop online.
Contact: box_tops@laurelpto.org
Help maintain and update the Laurel School website and post Facebook and Twitter posts, as directed by the Board Communications Coordinator.
Contact: web@laurelpto.org
Work from Home - More Frequent Commitment
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- Newsletter
- Head Room Parents
- Art Volunteers
- After-School Programs
- Library Coordinator
- Art Studio Volunteer Coordinator
Our weekly newsletter and mid-week updates are our main means of communicating with parents and the Laurel community. Preparers are needed to input blurbs submitted by various teachers, parents, district administrators, and community members in the weekly newsletter. An editor is needed to edit the newsletter and prepare it for scheduling. Constant Contact is easy to use, and we’ll teach you how! Takes a couple of hours each week.
Contact: newsletter@laurelpto.org
Help your classroom teacher coordinate volunteers, party preparation, send classroom and PTO announcements via email.
Contact: hrpcoordinator@laurelpto.org
Volunteering in the art classroom is a fun and fantastic way to relate to your child and get to know their classmates. Set up materials, circulate through the classroom, motivate students and assist with cleanup.
These Art Volunteers will stand available (with some notice) to help with projects to be done in class or at home, such as helping refill paint pallets, making black glue, refilling bottles of glue, etc. The Art Studio Volunteer Coordinator will reach out to these volunteers as needed.Contact: art@laurelpto.org
Help manage, schedule, and contract with all after-school program vendors; check in on programs to ensure they are successful; coordinate volunteers to help direct at the beginning of each term of programs.
Contact: after_school_programs@laurelpto.org
Coordinate volunteers for Library for all classrooms.
Contact: library_vol_coordinator@laurelpto.org
Art Studio Volunteer Coordinator
Manage Art Volunteer list. Check in once per week to see what the need is. Then, email parents who are on the volunteer list to see if anyone can help with various tasks, such as making black glue, refilling glue bottles, paint pallets, etc.
At certain times of the year, the Art Studio Coordinator will solicit volunteers for projects that require more adult assistance (paper mache, for example).Contact: art@laurelpto.org
