A volunteer includes homeroom parents, lunch monitors, special lunch volunteers, library aids, field trip chaperones and CYO coaches and assistants.

In order to volunteer at St. Thomas you must:

1. Have all your clearances complete and up-to-date.  (If you have not done this step, read below for how to do this.)
2. Go to Time to Sign-up to select the activity for which you want to volunteer

Homeroom Parents

Homeroom parents have a simple mission— Homeroom parents are the primary source of volunteers for classroom and school wide activities. Generally, we are called upon to:

1. Provide refreshments for classroom holiday parties, open house and home and school events
2. Attend classroom holiday parties or special events
3. Volunteer to help at events like the Harvest Fest or Gala, 8th grade Mothers’ Lunch, etc
4. Provide classroom coverage for teachers to attend the teachers’ brunch

There are two types of homeroom parents— Primary contact and classroom volunteers

Primary contacts act as the main point of contact for the teacher and as a liaison to all volunteer parents.  Two primary contacts are selected for each classroom. The responsibilities of a primary contact parent are to:

1. Plan, organize and coordinate class events with the teachers.  Teachers and primary homeroom contacts work together to plan a class event or party. Primary contacts compose a list of items and parents needed to complete the activity. Primary contacts then contact (via e-mail) all parents to seewho wish to help and assign items and volunteers to complete the list. Usually TIME TO SIGN UP is used. It is the goal of all primary contact parents to ensure every volunteer parent gets an opportunity to assist in the class- room during the year.
2. Compose and maintain an e-mail distribution list of all parents of students in their designated class. This provides the primary contacts and the teachers with a quick way to communicate with all class- room families.
3. Use the e-mail distribution list to forward volunteer requests for school wide events from home and school board, homeroom parents committee, activities committee, etc to all volunteer families.
4. Use money provided from the homeroom parent committee to cover classroom activities.
5. Work cooperatively with their primary contact partner for all events.

If you wish to be considered for selection as a primary homeroom  contact parent for any or all of your children’s class-­ rooms, please log onto www.timetosignup.com/stavolunteers. Click on the Primary Contact Homeroom Parent sign up sheet and follow the directions at the top of the sheet to sign up.  The teachers will be given the list of primary contact parent volunteers and two will be selected from the list. You will be notified by end of  September if you are selected as primary contact parent for a classroom. The primary contact sign up sheet will be available after August 4. 

Parents— As a parent, you will receive e-mails from the primary contact parents for each class where you have a child detailing volunteer opportunities for either classroom or school wide activities.  You then have the option of participating by responding to the email or logging onto a website as directed and signing up to fulfill a request (i.e. send in cupcakes for Halloween party). You chose the level of volunteering you wish to provide. All parents will be contacted in September to provide an email address(es) where you want to be notified of volunteer opportunities. In order to volunteer in school ,  you must have all your clearances up to date with the School Office

Whatever level of volunteering you choose is best for you, thank you for your service.  The teachers, students and administration are grateful for all your time and efforts.  If you have any questions, please contact Andrea Hane or Kim Dougherty at [email protected]

Obtaining Clearances

Complete the steps below, keep one copy of completed documents for yourself, and forward another copy to the School Office: [email protected].