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Volunteer Opportunities               

Educational

Angels for Teachers: Help with wish list for teachers.

Book Fair: Yearly opportunity for children to purchase a wide variety of educational and reading materials. All proceeds benefit our school library. Help is needed during the week of the book fair to assist children in making their selections.

Catholic Schools Week: Celebrate Queen of Angels Catholic School with weeklong activities and programs.  Volunteers are needed in many aspects to make it a memorable event. Information will be available in the January newsletter. We also show our appreciation to our staff by giving them a special lunch. Help is needed in planning, set up, clean up, and watching classrooms during the luncheon.

Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC): Award of state tax credits paid by local business firms to the Scholarship Partners Foundation of the Diocese of Greensburg, which provides tuition assistance to our families.

Fun Day:  An all school day of fun to promote health and fitness. Helpers are needed at each game station and to help with lunchtime organization. The day ends with a volleyball game where the faculty plays against the eighth grade students.

Grant Research/Grant Writing: Volunteers are needed to write grant letters to varying organizations and individuals to help raise school operating dollars and, eventually, funds for our school endowment.

Homeroom Coordinators: Moms or Dads to assist homeroom teachers with special projects.

Library Volunteers: Assists in checking out books and clerical tasks in the library.

Lunch Patrol: Provides adequate and quality supervision for our children at your assigned lunch time.

Uniform Committee: Organize a used clothing sale/uniform room and uniform fitting day.

Yearbook:  Compile photographs of each grade and school activities within the school year.


Marketing

Alumni Committee:  A committee to search for past students, research school history, and keep connected to our alumni with a newsletter.

Parish Based Marketing Team:  Families talking to new families about Queen of Angels in their parish by displaying children's schoolwork, and working with the SCRIPS program.
 
Public Relations:  Keep Queen of Angels in the local news. Newspaper articles are written for local papers about our students, and for publication in our church bulletins.

Recruitment:  Spread news about Queen of Angels Catholic School to new families.

Registration Packets:  Organize school information for registration.

> View and print our Volunteer Opportunities Checklist.
> View information about our Parent Lunch Patrol.


Families lend a hand. 

Planting tulips in Mary's garden .  

Our priests volunteer.     Our priests volunteer.

Grandparents visit our school.  
    
Celebrating Christmas!

  

Year Long Projects         

Campbell's Soup Labels: Many different product labels are collected and sent to our school. These labels are redeemed for sports equipment, AV materials, games, and other equipment needed by our school.

General Mills Box Tops: Look for the Big G logo on a variety of General Mills items, including cereal. Cut the box tops and send to the office. Our school receives money for each box top redeemed in the form of a check made out to the school.

Giant Eagle Receipts:  When redeemed by our school code, we receive computers, software, and other educational materials. Our school code is 0867.

Social

Back to School EventFamily centered event to promote the start of another school year.  Covered dish dinner provided by the parents.

Hayride: Kerber's Farm Fall hayride is an evening with families to enjoy nature. Hayride, ice cream and pumpkin picking are included in the ticket price. Organize the date with Kerber's and sell tickets.

 

Light-Up NightA Christmas parade in downtown Irwin. Queen of Angels eighth graders and parents design and construct a float. The eighth grade students ride the float the night of the parade and all families are welcome to join in the parade.

Santa LunchCome share lunch with other families and have an early visit with Santa. Pictures also available for a small fee. Help is needed to organize, set up, and clean up.

Fundraising

Lottery Calendar Ticket:  A yearly calendar is printed with chances to win money from the daily lottery number.  Calendars are sold for $25.

Market Day: Market Day is held once a month. Flyers are distributed in school and in several of our parishes.  Orders are e-mailed to the company, and customers pick up their order on our assigned day. We receive 10 percent of all sales.

Sarris Candy Sale:  Christmas and Easter candy is sold.  Help is needed to distribute order forms, tally order forms and distribute the products. We receive 35 percent of all sales.

SCRIPS: A program to help families offset tuition costs.  Families receive credit towards their tuition bill after buying varying vendor cash cards.

Annual Dinner: Plan and organize a sit down dinner with an auction. This special evening promotes our school.

 
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