St. Patrick's School

The Parent Participation Program serves two purposes:

• To teach students the value of community service by observing their parents and family members working for the good of their school, Parish, and others.

• To minimize costs, reserve funds to save for school equipment and improvements, and keep tuition rates low.

Parents are asked to dedicate time each year to support a variety of school and parish activities. This way, every family who participates plays a role in ensuring the success of the Parent Participation Program for the benefit of all.

If you have opted out of Parent Participation and will pay $1250.00, you will not need to sign up for your OnVolunteers Parent Portal.

St. Patrick's School is changing to use an online program, On Volunteers, to make it easier to track participation hours in the program. The new system automates and simplifies the Parent Participation process. There is no fee for parents to use this system. Each family will have their own unique password-protected website, aka ‘portal’, where they can sign up for tasks, record their hours, and communicate with coordinators.

Your login information will be sent out in September.

If you are already assigned one of the following positions:

• Crosswalk
• Supervision
• Library helper
  
• Hot lunch

you do not need to sign up for the tasks weekly. You are expected to arrive and sign in for your weekly task. If you attend your assigned tasks consistently, you will be able to fulfill your parent participation hours.

If you signed up for Parent Participation, but did not get assigned a recurring position, you will NEED to sign up for individual jobs as they get posted on OnVolunteers. This will allow you to sign up for jobs as your schedule allows. You will be able to track your hours to fulfill the 50 hours needed for the year.

There will be a variety of tasks that will be posted as a "needs to be done" basis.

This could include maintenance type jobs, such as painting, grounds keeping, deep cleaning, building or fixing furniture, create sets for plays and musicals, setting up/taking down special events etc.

Teachers may require assistance with work, such as preparing classroom materials, creating costumes, cleaning toys and materials, etc.

We cannot guarantee that hours will be available every month so please ensure that you TRACK YOUR HOURS.

It will also be helpful for you to update your parent portals to include your skills and talents.

OnVolunteers works on a first come, first serve basis. Make sure to add the email to your contacts to ensure that you get notifications when an email comes in.

If you sign up for a task and you are unable to attend, please update it in your portal by removing your sign up on OnVolunteers no later than 48 hours before the expected start time. This allows for others to sign up for the job.

If you sign up for a task and do NOT attend or complete the task three times, you will be billed $125.00 (an equivalent to one month's payment).

It is the responsibility of parents to have all their hours entered into OnVolunteers by May 31, 2024. Failure to enter hours will result in the family incurring a bill for any incomplete hours.

Any request to approve adjustments to Parent Participation hours after the May 31st deadline are at the discretion of the PEC. If approved, such requests may be subject to an administrative fee.

Next year parents can begin volunteering prior to the start of the school year in the summer.

Any hours that have not been completed will be billable. For every hour missing, an amount of $25.00 will be billed.

You will be given updates by the system, but it is up to YOU to track your hours and to ensure you complete the necessary hours to avoid paying.

Email: school@stpatsschool.org
Website: www.stpatsschool.org
Phone: 604-467-1571
Twitter: @Stpatsmr