Altadena PTSO Wants YOU!

 

Involved parents = Smarter kids

Research shows children perform better academically when their parents engage in school life. PTSO is an easy way for parents to get involved. We hold many different programs, so there's something for every personality and schedule. And since we've been here for a long time, we know how to run popular activities using minimum time to get maximum results.

Use your special talent

Love to read? Then volunteer as a classroom reading tutor for an hour each week. Scrap booking your passion? Try helping out the historian.
 

Here's the key: share those talents you most enjoy using.

Please send the volunteer form in to the office or your child's ac. lab teacher.

Volunteer Form

Contact our volunteer coordinators for any questions or to volunteer:  Christine Lum @ lumgirl1017@aol.com or 480-283-6241

or Pam Porter @ pamporter2@yahoo.com or 480-235-7337.

Thank you.

 
Volunteer Committees Include:

Fall Harvest Festival

Chair Person Needed!!  Please contact Christine Lum at 480-283-6241 or Pam Porter @ 480-235-7337 if you would like to help or volunteer.

This is our biggest fundraiser of the year.  This committee is responsible for planning, organizing, and implementing all aspects of the Harvest Festival including choosing vendors, ticket sales, recruiting and training volunteers, coordinating schedules with performing arts teachers, set-up, clean-up, etc. 

 

Fall and Spring Book Fairs

Chair: Karen Bagnell 480-460-9256 and Lauren Sperry

This is a fundraiser which benefits the library.  Responsibilities of this committee include organizing the Fall and Spring Book Fair, marketing and advertising.   These events are held in conjunction with Fall Harvest Festival and a spring event. 

 

Hospitality/ Staff Appreciation

Chair:  Lisa Kagasoff 480-283-0646 and Colette Lay 480-283-1713

This committee is responsible for organizing and implementing monthly staff appreciation luncheons and/or breakfasts for 100 people, as well as events for Teacher/Staff Appreciation week, which is the first week in May.

 

8th Grade Promotion Dance

Chair:  Patty Hammer 602-300-7447

This committee is responsible for planning and implementing all aspects of the 8th grade promotion dance.  This includes decorating, menu planning, etc.

 

I'll Do Anything

This committee is designed for folks who might feel they don't have the time to commit to a specific committee but who would like to be called upon when help is needed.  This might include sending a 2-liter bottle of soda to school for the Harvest Festival, making a few phone calls, helping prepare coffee, making photocopies, etc.

Hour or Two

This group of volunteers will be added to our volunteer coordinators' database and will be called upon when we need a bit of your time.  If you want to be called upon, but don't want to make a commitment, please sign up for this group or the one above.

 

Family Dinner Nights

Chair:  Carrie McNeish480-221-9090

This committee is responsible for organizing, planning, implementing and marketing family dinner nights through local eating establishments.

 

Honey Baked Ham

Chair: Cindy Wagner

This committee is responsible for getting order forms out to parents, marketing, ordering hams through Honey Baked Ham Co., collecting funds, and setting up for hams to be picked up by parents at Altadena.  This is done twice a year, just before Christmas and Easter.

 

Family Directory

This committee is responsible for compiling names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of Altadena families for publication in the directory, proofing information, selling advertising to include in the directory, coordinating printing and selling directories.