Committee Descriptions

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When adults volunteer, all students benefit! There are many opportunities for parents and community members to get involved!  Your help is needed!  Email president@sanderscornerpta.org.

 

Standing Committees

Staff Liaisons Communications Grounds Improvement LEAF Representative

MSAAC Representative Nominating Budget & Finance Chair Fundraising Chair

SEAC Representative Staff Engagement & Support Chair Family Outreach Chair Volunteer Coordinator

 

Events & Programs

ASEP Bedtime Story Night Dance Dolphin Dash Fun Run Family Arts Night

Fifth Grade Promotion Committee Food Truck Night Holiday Shoppe Movie Nights

Reflections Spring Festival Spooktacular Bingo STEM Night Year Book

 

Communications Committees

Bulletin Board Facebook/Instagram Newsletters

Reader Board Technology

Twitter (X) Webmaster

 

Family Outreach Committees

DLI Family Liaison Lost & Found

Membership Room Parent Liaison

Watch D.O.G.S. & Watch M.O.M.S Welcome Committee

 

Fundraising

Bonus Dollars Fundraising

Spirit Nights Spirit Wear

 

Staff Engagement & Support

• Staff Appreciation Week
• Staff Luncheons
• Staff Recognition

 

 

 

Descriptions of Committees:

ASEP (After School Enrichment Program): Coordinating with teachers and a few outside vendors to see if they are interested in running a club for a fall session and winter session and set up calendar and facilities requests. Set up registration for website, print rosters for school and teachers to know who is in which club, print rosters for teachers running the club.

 

 

Bedtime Story Night: Plans, create and facilitates a story night event for Kindergarten through 2nd grade students with teacher and school administrators as guest readers.

 

Bingo Spooktacular: Running the event of ordering long tables for playing bingo, pre sales for food, bingo cards and raffle tickets, pre order food from Chick fila and Dominios Pizza, set up supplies to run bingo board with school technology department.

 

Bonus Dollars: Help get our accounts set up in the beginning of the year with Harris Teeter and help spread the word to our families on how to give our school credit for shopping at these stores. The beginning of the school year is a must for availability then just monitoring the rest of the year.

 

 

Bulletin Board: Decorates large bulletin board outside front office monthly. Themes based on monthly PTA events.

 

Carnival: Chair will organize a Carnival in the spring.  The chair will have to get prizes, contact and secure vendors, plan activities and games, and get volunteers.  

  

Communications: Social Media posts on PTA Facebook and Twitter pages, update PTA website as needed, and publish weekly newsletter. Other tasks as assigned on PTA website.

 

Dolphin Dash Fun Run: Plans, facilitates and organizes Dolphin Dash Fun Run in October.

 

Family Arts Night: (Event every two years) One night free event including various parts of the arts as a give-back event to the Sanders Corner community.

 

Finance: Each month open the monthly bank statement and review it against the monthly financial statement and bank reconciliation provided by the Treasurer.  Sign off on such documents, noting any discrepancies, and return the signed documents to the Treasurer for the Record Books.

 

Fundraising: Advocates for the PTA/school needs within the community by working to secure donations from local businesses.

 

Grounds Improvement: Plans, facilitates and organizes 3-4 grounds improvement days for the school year.

 

Holiday Shoppe: Plans, facilitates and organizes child shopping and vendor shopping portions of event on the first Saturday in December.

 

Membership: Plans, facilitates and organizes the yearly PTA membership drive

 

Movie Nights: Plans, facilities and organizes three movie night events during the school year.

 

MSAAC Representative: The Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee (MSAAC) is dedicated to work in partnership with the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), parents and community to further the academic, social and cultural development of every student and to ensure that the needs of all minority students are met. MSAAC supports School Board and staff initiatives, and parent efforts to ensure that our school community becomes culturally competent, providing the corner stone to ensure fair and equitable instruction to all LCPS students. We encourage the development of school cultures where every minority student is afforded the opportunity to achieve his or her full potential, feels welcome and is recognized as an integral member of the student body. All meetings are held at the Loudoun County Public School Administration Building in the School Board Meeting Room.

 

Nominating: Collect nominations for each position and choose the candidate that would best fill the position for the next school year. The official nominees for office will be presented in April and voted on by the membership at the May meeting.

 

Reader Board: The reader board outside the school is updated each week or bi weekly with events happening at the school.

 

Reflections: Chair will advertise, promote the National PTA Cultural Arts program. Contact with the teachers and staff to share this program with students. Collect all entries, assemble a judging committee  (if necessary) and announce winners as needed to move to next level of judging/evaluation.

 

Restaurant Spirit Nights: Plans, facilitates and organizes monthly restaurant fundraiser nights for the school. 

 

Room Parent Liaison: A contact for all room parents in the school for training or passing on information to parents from the school or PTA.

 

SEAC Representative: the Special Education Advisory Committee, composed of parents, educators, administrators, and others concerned with the education of students with disabilities, meet once a month to help advise and assist the local school system with meeting the educational needs to these students.  The SEAC Rep would be a liaison between the school and the committee to make sure SCES is aware of the initiatives and concerns being discussed county wide as well as bringing anything to the committee our parents feel is important for the education of the students with disabilities in our community.  The representative would attend a meeting once a month at the county building and report to the general membership at our meetings. More info on SEAC can be found at http://www.lcps.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=1513

 

Spirit Wear: Tracks and reorders spirit wear inventory, fulfills spirit wear orders on PTA website, and assists selling spirit wear at PTA events.

 

Spirit Nights: Coordinated restaurant and activity spirit nights with various local businesses.

 

Staff Appreciation: Plans, facilitates and organizes staff appreciation week during the month of May.

 

Staff Luncheons: Plans, facilitates and organizes 4 staff luncheons during the school year.

 

Staff Recognition: Facilitates staff/teacher/principal yearly awards nominations.

 

Staff Liaison:  School staff member assigned as a go between school teachers and staff and parents.

 

Volunteer Coordinator: Help organize and recruit volunteers for PTA and school events. Reconcile volunteer hours recorded through the school check in system and PTA website.

 

Volleyball Game (Staff vs Adult Family Member): Chair will organize and plan a volleyball game to take place in the spring at Stone Bridge HS.  Will need to find volunteers, staff and adult family members to play, have an MC and ref, provide snacks to sell, and help with roster.

 

Watch D.O.G.S. & Watch M.O.M.S.: Coordinates registration and schedules throughout the year.

 

Yearbook: Manages photography, creation and layout of the school yearbook for publishing.