Service and Volunteering
Many hands make light work…and more affordable tuition! Each year, the service and volunteering completed by parents contribute greatly to keeping our affordable tuition model alive. Speak with your class teacher, class parent, the office, or browse the opportunities below to find out how to contribute and participate this year…
Service and Volunteering Opportunities
Many of these service and volunteering opportunities are flexible and can be done at any time. Some opportunities are seasonal/as needed and others, such as joining a committee or becoming a parent leader, have recurring commitments throughout the year. Fnd a way to participate during a day & time that is convenient for you! Contact office@bvwaldorf.org to find out more and to log your hours!!
Gardening
Throughout the spring, summer, and fall, help is needed to keep the campus landscaping and gardens beautiful and thriving. Weeding is often needed on school pathways, building perimeters, and labyrinth. General gardening in front of classrooms, along walkways, or in center garden beds, Watering trees, Move and spread wood chips
Handywork, Carpentry Projects, & Repairs
If you like DIY projects, using power tools, or have a background in plumbing/electric, these volunteer opportunities are for you! Whether it is building a play structure, re-tiling a bathroom, re-painting a classroom. There’s always something that can be done to help maintain our campus.
Basement Clearing, Organization & Donation Crew
We are working on a library project… so join us to help organized our books! Otherwise, the basement tends to accumulate many things… Let us know if you can help clear out unneeded items from the basement, load into a car, and take to Goodwill or donate elsewhere.
Events Coordinator for Festivals
Each year we appreciate extra coordinating and organizing the whole-school events such as the May Faire and Harvest Faire
Handwork & Crafting
This is a wonderful volunteer opportunity to do at home and at your own leisure. Crafts are needed throughout the year for classroom activities, school festivals, and Parent Association craft sales. Crafting needs for a specific festival or sale can be found on the volunteer calendar, but should be worked on ahead of time so they are ready by the event date. Reach out to pa@bvwaldorf.org
Service Hours Completed and logged for 2024-25 So Far
Logging Service and Volunteering Hours
Please log your hours on Ravenna/BigSIS Parent Portal to make sure you get credit for all of your hard work. If you have any issues logging hours, please reach out to office@bvwaldorf.org and we can help keep track of your 20 service hours annually.
Click here for a visual guide to logging your volunteer hours on Ravenna/BigSIS.
Parent Participation
Parent participation is the lifeblood of the school! Parents are the first teachers and most significant adults in children’s lives. The key to improving student achievement is the involvement of family in education. Whether you are providing support at home, communicating with the school, or volunteering at the school, all of these help our students and community achieve excellence. We are lucky to have parents at the school with so much talent and energy! Your diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and interests are invaluable in their strength to support the students and the school. We are so grateful for your involvement. Thank you!
Service and Volunteering Hours Each Year
Each family is required to complete 20 service hours each year, as designated on the Enrollment Contract (single parents need only complete 10 hours). Connect with the office to sign up for events and track your completed service hours.
Parent Evenings
This is the opportunity for the class teacher to meet with the parents as a group. These meetings act to create a richer experience and deeper understanding of your child’s school life. Parental attendance is mandatory at a minimum of two Parent Evenings each year. Attendance by both parents is ideal, however, at least one parent is sufficient. These meetings are so important for communication between the class teacher and the parents.
Parent-Teacher Conferences
In addition to the Parent Evenings throughout the year, mandatory conferences are scheduled twice each year each Fall and Spring. Parents or teachers may request additional conferences at other times during the school year as necessary. Childcare are available for enrolled students during Parent-Teacher Conferences. There can be NO UNSUPERVISED CHILDREN when school is closed
Field Trip Chaperone
Please complete Additional School Forms if you think there is a chance you will be helping out with a field trip & to help us match you with volunteer opportunities: https://bvwaldorf.org/parents/#backtoschoolforms
Class Parents
Connect with a “Class Parent” to help with classroom specific activities or consider becoming a Class Parent yourself! Each class invites a parent (or several) to serve as Class Parent(s) for the school year. Class Parents support the teacher in planning events and notifying all of the families in the class of pertinent information. Class Parent positions are usually filled at the first Parent Meetings each school year. The Class Parent coordinates:
- Teacher support by facilitating communication between parents and the teacher about classroom business via email and telephone
- Help new parents navigate our school! Community helps us thrive; be a source of support for new families.
- Volunteer recruitment for class activities such as finding field trip drivers or helping to organize a class party
- Class donation to the annual auction and other class donations
- Teachers gifts
- Flowers for the classroom
- Special Classroom events
- Snacks and clean-up for Parent Evenings
Parent Association (PA) Meetings are a place to connect with the life of the school… ALL PARENTS are welcome to attend PA meetings!
The Parent Community provides vital support to the school and the faculty. As René Querido, one of Boulder Valley’s founders, expressed it, the parents provide a “mantle of warmth” around the Board of Trustees and the Faculty. The parent community provides vital support to the school. Parents make the school possible, not only because they send their children, but because they have the willingness to serve and raise funds which are critical activities for all independent schools. Through committee work with faculty & board members, parents are instrumental in coordinating and providing both individual classes and school-wide social activities which generate goodwill, deepen the understanding of Waldorf education, and promote the growth of the school community. Parents share the responsibility for creating and sustaining the life and culture of the school. Together the community enhances the growth and development through conversation and mutual support.
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