Parent Volunteering

School Day Field Trip Volunteers: Students attend approximately one - two grade wide field trips during the school year. The duties of the chaperone are to guide the designated group of students through the field trip, as well as keep track of and ensure the safety of the students on the field trip. Often times the chaperone also carries the lunches for the students. Parents are expected to ride the bus to and from the field trip with the students. To volunteer to be a field trip chaperone one would sign up at the bottom of the permission slip that comes home with their child. The teacher then contacts you afterwards to communicate that you will be attending the field trip as a chaperone and give you arrival and departure information.

Extended Day Field Trip Volunteers: BMMS has several extended day field trips (Outdoor Education, Hershey Park, New York City) and require parent volunteers to chaperone these trips. The duties of the chaperone are to guide the designated group of students through the field trip, as well as keep track of and ensure the safety of the students on the field trip. Parents may be expected to ride the bus to and from the field trip with the students but on some field trips parents may drive themselves. To volunteer to be a field trip chaperone one would sign up at the bottom of the permission slip that comes home with their child. The teacher then contacts you afterwards to communicate that you will be attending the field trip as a chaperone and give you arrival and departure information.

Food Donations: There are various PTA and non PTA sponsored events held at BMMS throughout the year that request parent donations of food or drink. Food items are purchased by the parent and dropped off at either a PTA member's house or at the school. School donations are either dropped off at the teacher lounge or the main office with a label of what the food is for. These events could be a student event (back to school bash, quarterly celebration, dance/trivia event, field day etc.) or they could be request for donation for a PTA sponsored teacher appreciation event (back to school breakfast, teacher appreciation lunch, parent teacher conference snacks, or end of year lunch). Parents are notified of the need for volunteer items through a sign up genius link.

One time Volunteer Opportunities:

• PTA events/Evening events: The PTA, SGA and school holds a few events throughout the year including both social and academic events. They often require volunteers to make the events run smoothly (set up and clean up crew, people to hand out items, volunteers throughout an activity). To volunteer to help these events the PTA committee will reach out with a Sign up Genius link. Following that link online shows the available volunteer opportunities.

• Band/Orchestra: Volunteers are needed during the band and orchestra concerts in the winter and spring to help the children organize and set up and pack up. Volunteers may also help with simple concessions, donations, and rear door monitoring. The band or orchestra teacher will ask for volunteers via email.

• Quarterly Celebration Volunteers: BMMS will have end of quarter celebrations sponsored by the school, the fall fling, winterfest, and spring fling. Each class during the school day is truncated and the last hour of the school day is devoted to the celebration. Parent volunteers run stations that the students can rotate through. Examples of station volunteers are: food sales, face paint, run BINGO or trivia games, supervise gymnasium activities, or run the cake walk. There is opportunities for parents to drop off needed donations of water, juice boxes, chips, and candy as well. Parents are notified of the need for volunteers at these events through a sign up genius link.

• Media Center Volunteers: Parents volunteers are needed for Media Center to shelve and straighten books.

• Health Room Volunteers: The Health Room needs volunteers in the fall to help with the Flu Shot administration and Hearing & Vision Screening. You do not need medical experience to help.

• Turkey Trot - Volunteers: The Turkey Trot is about a mile cross country fun run for students during the school day in November. The school looks for 3 or 4 parent volunteers per race.