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Marie Purser, Volunteer Coordinator
Volunteer Opportunities:
Garland ISD has mandated that all persons who volunteer with the children
and school events, must complete a criminal background check before volunteering. This procedure is crucial
in keeping our children safe. If you have not completed the form, please do so soon and return it to school as soon
as possible. You may pick up a form in the school office or request one by email from Mary Ellen Sargent.
- Room Parent - If you've never been a Room Parent before,
or it's been awhile, here is a summary of the "duties":
- Each month (or at least once every 6-week period), each class has
a party during homeroom period.
- Besides the parties, each grades' Room Parents are responsible for
obtaining food donations (cookies, candy, etc.) for one lunch-time Bake Sale, and snacks and chaperones for three school dances.
- If you are fortunate enough that you are not the only Room Parent
in your class, you may divide the calling list so each of you has fewer calls or e-mail reminders to make each month, or you
could take turns doing all the calling/e-mailing month by month.
HR: 1:45 - 2:10
- Field Trip Chaperone
- Dance Chaperone - You may help with as many dances throughout the year as you would like. Although all grade levels may attend the
school dances, each dance is sponsored by a certain grade.
- In all, we will need a minimum of 10 chaperones for each dance. Chaperones
should arrive about 10-15 minutes before the dance to sign in and get their assignments. Dances begin at 7:00 p.m. and end
at 9:00 p.m.
- At each dance, parents provide snacks for the kids. If possible,
please bring a bag of candy, cookies, or similar type treat for the snack table.
- Help with Bake Sales - Bake or purchase store-bought items for our periodic lunch-time sales, and/or volunteer to work the sales
tables during all or a portion of a sale.
Lunch Time: A: 11:20 - 11:50 B: 12:10 - 12:40 C: 12:40 - 1:10 D:
1:10 - 1:40
Period: Time 0:
8:00 - 8:40 1: 8:50 - 9:35
2: 9:40 - 10:25 3: 10:30 - 11:15 4: 11:20 - 12:05 5:
12:10 - 1:40 HR: 1:45 - 2:10 6:
2:15 - 3:00 7: 3:05 - 3:50
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Help in the Clinic -
We are always in need of volunteers to help occasionally in the clinic. This requires a short first aid training class. If
you have had the Red Cross class provided through the GISD, and would like to help out in the Austin clinic, or if you have
not had the class, but are interested in being a clinic volunteer, please contact the school nurse. Occasionally volunteers
are needed to help with vision/hearing and spinal screenings. This does NOT require a special class. If you are interested
in helping with these screenings, please feel free to do so.
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