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VOLUNTEERS

STAY CONNECTED TO MCHS - PLEASE VOLUNTEER TODAY!

Volunteers are crucial to the success of all PTSA activities & events, so we hope you'll help us during the 2009-2010 school year.

We have over 20 different volunteer activities. They span basic help ( i.e. registration) to artistic endeavors (Pride Day) . Please consider helping us with at least one activity.

If you are interested in volunteering for any events in 2009-10,

please email Abby Waddell at abbywaddell@msn.com

2009-2010 PTSA Committee Descriptions

* symbol indicates that some task(s) can be completed at home and/or during non-work hours

Student Registration

  • Assist students and school with registration

Class Schedule Distribution

  • Two hour shifts to distribute class schedules

Teacher Back to School Luncheon*

  • Donate food, set up, serve or clean-up

Textbook Distribution/Return

  • Two hour shifts to distribute or receive returned textbooks

Directory Committee*

  • General Help

Family Photos Fundraiser*

  • Help with appointments and forms at Pollywog Park, MCHS and/or at beach

Grad Nite*

  • Grad Nite Planning & Preparation for event (Feb-June)
  • Chaperone event (Senior Parents cannot chaperone)

Health Office

  • Assist nurse with student vision/hearing Screenings

Honor Roll Recognition

  • Volunteers will work for 1.5 hours on event day only. Jobs include checking honor roll student I.D.'s, directing students to burger lines, policing burger truck area and collecting tickets.

Pride Day*

  • Help beautify MCHS campus, working with student volunteers. Parent volunteers are required to plant plants, rake weeds, clean up trash and sweep the campus. Supervision of student volunteers is also needed. Gloves and gardening tools are a must.

Teacher Appreciation Breakfast *

  • This committee handles the Teacher Appreciation Breakfast which takes place in the high school cafeteria on a Wednesday morning in late April. We need volunteers for various tasks:

•  Set-up:

•  create/distribute an invitation (flyer)

•  purchase staff gifts and distribute them (staff mailboxes) on Monday and Friday of this same week

•  create floral arrangements

•  decorate cafeteria

•  prepare dinner on Tuesday evening for the high school's evening maintenance crew.

•  Donate food and drinks

•  Serve (on Wednesday morning)

•  To accept/set out food donations

•  Answer questions

•  Help serve

•  There are opportunities for both cooks and non-cooks.

•  Cleanup   

Scholar Quiz

  • Scholar Quiz is a fast-paced Jeopardy-type tournament that takes place at lunch. Teams of four students each compete in a single elimination tournament that begins with 64 teams. Scholar Quiz needs about 100 volunteers on the first day for one hour. Volunteers are used as timers, scorekeepers and flag judges during the competition. We sometimes need additional volunteers (no more than 20) on the second day of the Quiz. It is fun, fast and you'll be amazed at the skill of the competitors!

Book Fair*

    Sunday in May, (offsite)

  • Assist co-chairs at off-site book fair (meet & greet, hand out book lists, etc)

Senior Breakfast*

  • After the Senior classes last final, the PTSA provides them with a light breakfast/snack. Volunteers are needed to make donations of muffins, doughnuts, individual pieces of fruit and beverage. One or two volunteers are useful to help with set up and with breakdown of this event.

2009 College Fair

  • Planning for the College Fair 2009
  • Assist at event

Reflections Committee*

  Fall

  • Assist in management at MCHS of nationally PTA Sponsored Art Contest in 4 categories

College & Career Center (CCC)

  • Ongoing assistance for college counselors in a number of areas on an as-needed basis. Some areas that require help are :
  • PSAT sign-ups, which take place during the lunch hour at school in the fall
  • AP test sign-ups, which take place during the lunch hour at school in the spring
  • College Fair
  • Career Expo
  • Managing senior scholarship notebooks as they are turned in
  • In addition to these functions there are also times that the counselors need organizational help in the CCC

Manhattan Beach Education Foundation (MBEF)*

  • Assist MBEF with various mailings to MCHS families and/or with phone-a-thon. Mail help includes helping to fold, stuff, affix labels and seal envelopes for November, January, and July mailings
  • Three phone-a-thons to families (one in November and two in January) where a script is provided (these are really very easy as they are not like cold calls)
  • There is an extra volunteer opportunity mid-summer to ready MBEF Annual Appeal letter for mailing
  • VOLUNTEER FOR ANY OR ALL EVENTS. We are a small community and everyone we call has a vested interest in our schools
* symbol indicates that some task(s) can be completed at home and/or during non-work hours

If you are interested in volunteering for any events in 2009-10,

please email Abby Waddell at abbywaddell@msn.com.

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