VOLUNTEER

Looking For Ways to Volunteer? 

We appreciate any time and talent you can give! Email us here to get added to our STAR Supporter team and automatically learn about opportunities throughout the year! Here are our current volunteer needs:

• Early DEC - Hot Chocolate Bar (for Staff): Sign up to bring treats, coffee, or bake a special treat to show our teachers/staff how much we appreciate them.

• NOV 20-22 - Grandparent’s Breakfast: help prep food day before, set up, greet/serve food day-of, or clean up. SIGN UP LINK

• NOV 14-22 - Fall Book Fair: help set up, clean-up, or help during book fair hours running registers or helping kids pick out a book. SIGN UP LINK

Future 2024-2025 School Year Events

Sign-Up Links will be added as they become available

• JAN 25 - Family Fun Activity Night: help greet & hand out game cards, check winner’s cards, sell food/drinks, or set-up/clean up.

• FEB - Spring Kids Clubs: Sign up to lead a weekly kids club - get paid & get one free club registration for your kid. (Ideas: yoga, crafts, fun fitness, coding, sports, singing). During the Fall this year, we didn’t get enough volunteers, so fingers crossed we get enough to run clubs in the Spring.

• Late APR - Litter Clean-up Day: Bring your gloves and help pick up trash around the Westchester grounds.

• MAY 4 - Super Star Sprint: help gather donations, ride a bike along the route with the runners, hand out medals, take pictures, and many more activities will be needed.

• MAY 5-9 - Teacher Appreciation Week: many will be many activities that happen throughout the week that you’ll be able to sign-up and help with.

• MAY 29-30 - Field Day: sign up to hand out treats from the PTA for the WES students

• JUL 4 - WES PTA 4th of July Float: help decorate or sign up to ride on (or walk with) the float in the Catonsville Parade.

Past 2024-2025 School Year Events

Thanks to those who helped! To those that want to help, these opportunities will be available again next year.

• OCT 27 - Harvest Hang-out: Help out at the face-painting, food stations, running the yard games, and more.

• Early OCT - Kids Clubs: Sign up to lead a weekly kids club - get paid & get one free club registration for your kid. (Ideas: yoga, crafts, fun fitness, coding, sports, singing)

• OCT 9 - Picture Day: Volunteers are needed on picture day to help it run successfully. Lifetime gives each volunteer a free basic package certificate.

• Late SEPT - Adopt-A-Teacher: Sign-up to be assigned a WES staff member to “adopt” - to treat each month with a little gift, treat, etc. ($5-$15 range) Your adopted staff member will come with a list of likes, preferences, interests, etc., so that you can tailor your monthly surprises. THIS EVENT IS CLOSED, but you can still access the Teachers’ Favorite Things List for gift ideas throughout the year.

• SEP 22 - Clean-up Day: Bring your gardening gloves and help pick up trash, weed, and plant fresh plants around the Westchester grounds.

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