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:

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

• Spring Kids Clubs: Sign-up to lead a weekly kids club - get paid & get one free club registration for your kid. (Ideas: yoga, Chess, writing, crafts, fun fitness, coding, sports, singing). This opportunity is open to anyone in the Catonsville community.

  • Email weskidsclubs@gmail.com if you are interested or have questions.

• Spring Book Fair: help set up, clean-up, or help during book fair hours running registers or helping kids pick out a book.

  • Help Needed: Sign-Up Genius Link

• Birthday Marquee: Take over as Lead to manage Birthday marquee orders, Put new names on marquee every Friday, & PTA events/meetings on board (as space allows)

  • Interested? Email WES PTA at westchester21228@gmail.com today!

• Litter Clean-up Day: Bring your gloves and help pick up trash around WES school grounds.

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

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

• Field Day: volunteer to hand out treats from the PTA for the WES students

• 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.

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

• 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)

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Grandparent’s Breakfast: help prep food day before, set up, greet/serve food day-of, or clean up.

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

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