New Volunteer Category: Babysitting Sharing

Last spring PHAST conducted a volunteer survey to find out how we could help our parents volunteer more and fulfill their volunteer commitment of 4 hours per month. After looking at the results, we saw the overwhelming reason why people didn't volunteer more, or at all, was because they have small children at home and no one to babysit.

To help address this, we are very excited to announce we have added a new volunteer category to HelpCounter: Babysitting Sharing. You can now get volunteer credit for babysitting the preschool-age children of another Providence Hall parent while they are at the school volunteering, and vice-versa. Now it’s even easier to be involved and we look forward to seeing more people at the school. Thanks for all you do to make Providence Hall a great place for our kids!

Remember to log your hours on HelpCounter here.

Fall Festival 2010

We want to shout out a huge Thanks! to everyone who came out to enjoy our Fall Festival this year! We gave out over 700 wristbands and had over 70 volunteers who helped make the night fun for everyone—What an incredible turnout! The favorite game of the festival? The Toilet Paper Toss (into a toilet, of course!) Thanks so much for supporting our school community!

Fall Book Fair

Our Fall Book Fair is coming up Thursday, Nov 4, 2-8 p.m., and Friday, Nov 5, 1-6 p.m. Book fairs are a great way to add books to your home library and earn free books for our classrooms and library! Be sure to use your $5 coupon from our No-Fuss Fundraiser. If you haven't had a chance to participate in the fundraiser, you can make your donation at the book fair and get your coupon.

You can click here to sign up to help at the book fair.

Note: Scholastic has upgraded their cash register to a computerized system. If you'd like to help at the book fair and need to be trained on the new system, please go to the school during the book fair set-up on Friday, 10/29, from 1-3 p.m., and someone will show you how it works.