VOLUNTEERING
All volunteers must complete a background check in order to volunteer at Bethany Elementary, which takes 2-3 weeks to be completed.
If you have been a volunteer for BSD, but are a new parent at Bethany, you’ll need to message Johanna Shrout to get setup.
We thank you for donating your time!
FUNDRAISERS & COMMITTEES
Get involved in the Bethany community! Each year we need volunteers to organize and run fundraising events and clubs.
GREEN TEAM
Bethany Elementary School Parent Green Team aims to educate students, teachers, parents and community members about Earth Sustainability efforts.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Adopt-A-Road Clean Up
Holiday Lights & Battery Recycling
Bottle Drop
BETHANY LEARNING GARDEN
Bethany Learning Garden mission: to provide a garden area that is accessible and available, in partnership with each of the classroom teachers, for all students to enjoy and participate in the planning, soil preparation, planting, growing, harvesting, eating the produce and picking the flowers.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Assemble and install the new garden beds (in the Spring)
Summer volunteers to rotate watering the garden
PLAYGROUND IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
Recess is a critical part of the school day where students have an opportunity for physical activity essential to their general health, which is proven to boost academic achievement. Recess also provides children the chance to strengthen motor, sensory, cognition, and social-emotional skills. The Bethany Playground Improvement Committee aims to improve existing equipment and fund new equipment that produces multi-sensory experiences and is accessible to children of all ages, skills, and abilities.
Check out our Bobcat Bling fundraiser.
More details on what the Playground Improvement Committee is doing.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Attend committee meetings & drive Playground Improvements
Research and write grants
Help with specific fundraising events
Assist in planning future fundraising efforts
Donate money
Jog-A-Thon
Learn more about this year’s Jog-A-Thon
Join us in supporting our students at the Fall 2024 Jog-A-Thon! Cheer the kids on as you tally laps and hand out popsicles, help record lap times, or pitch in to set up or clean up. It’s a fun day for everyone, and we’d love to see you there!
READ-A-THON
Read-a-thon is a spring fundraiser where students read for a two-week time period and raise money by receiving either a flat rate, or per minute rate. At the end of the fundraiser, we celebrate with book character dress up day! There are tier prizes (based on minutes read and money raised). For top readers on most minutes read, and most money raised: those names will go into a lottery for a chance to win a bigger prize.
Volunteer opportunities:
Making copies of the rules and recording sheets
Counting minutes and recording them for each student
Counting money and recording it for each student
Being available to hand out prizes to students
HAUNTED HALLWAY
Haunted Hallway is a fundraiser organized by 5th grade parents and students to raise money for the 5th grade end-of-year party. The main hall, or undercover area on the playground, is decorated with spooky decorations and the 5th graders dress up and scare everyone coming through.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Haunted Hallway Lead Organizer
Set-up/Clean-up
VARIETY SHOW
The Variety Show gives students the chance to shine! All students are encouraged to participate in the Variety Show.
Interested in participating in this year’s show? Complete this form.
If your 5th grader would like to be an announcer at the show, please complete this form.
Bobcat's Got Talent Video
YEARBOOK
It’s time to order your Yearbook, submit 5th grade baby photos and send in any photos you’ve taken at school!
The yearbook is designed by some of our very creative volunteers. Pictures are taken throughout the year by the volunteers or are sent in by parents.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Submit pictures taken around the school
Yearbook Cover Contest
Let your inner artist shine! Enter the Yearbook Cover Contest! First and second places will be featured on the front and back cover. All other entries will be featured inside.
Turn in your entry to the office or send a digital copy to yearbook@bspto.org
REQUIREMENTS
• Use 8.5 x 11 unlined paper
• Vertical orientation
• Include the words: “Bethany Elementary School” and “ Year-Year Yearbook” (See photo for example)
TIPS
• Use the whole sheet of paper
• The more color the better
• Check your spelling
ART LITERACY
Art Literacy is a parent-volunteer led art program that introduces students to artists, their techniques, and gives them a hands-on experience using the artists work as inspiration.
Art Literacy lessons are presented six times a year at the elementary level, from October to June during regular school hours.
As a parent volunteer, you may present the lessons/art projects to the students or choose to act as an assistant to the presenter.
This is an opportunity for those who enjoy working with students in a teacher-like role. The classroom teacher remains with the class, but you are presenting or assisting with the lesson.
NO ART BACKGROUND IS REQUIRED AND ALL MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED.
Art Literacy volunteers need to attend a training meeting before each classroom presentation. The times and days for these are different at each school.
At the training, volunteers receive a copy of the lesson they will be teaching. The Art Literacy coordinator will present the lesson/artist overview, the focus of the lesson, and then will teach the lesson as if in a classroom setting. The art project the students will be completing is demonstrated and explained. You, too, will complete the art project, so you will know how to best teach the students. All of the art supplies are provided by each school program.
Classroom assignments for volunteers are made at the beginning of the school year, and the presentations are scheduled with the teacher, by you or the coordinator, to take place during regular school hours.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Art Literacy Coordinator(s)
Individual Classroom Presenters and Assistants