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Getting Involved

Gateway Charter School requires families to volunteer their time during the school year. Families are required to volunteer 20hours for the first child and 10 hours for each additional child attending Gateway Charter School. There are many opportunities to volunteer time at our school. This may include working in the classrooms, assisting with fundraisers and special events, attending workshops and PTO meetings, helping in the cafeteria and library/media center, participating on a field trip, purchasing items for the classroom or school from our wish lists.

Parent Teacher Organization

The role of the Gateway Charter School Parent Teacher Organization is to promote and foster good, clear channels of communication and engage in a cooperative relationship between the home, school and the community. The PTO is proud to support the faculty and staff in an effort to improve the overall success of all students. The PTO is a great forum for any parent that wants to get involved in their child's education and help raise money.

The general PTO meetings are held every other month, at 6:30pm in the elementary school cafeteria. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend our meetings. We highly encourage all families to join the PTO for $10.00 and in return you will receive one hour of volunteer time. Members also earn one hour per family for each meeting that they attend throughout the year. (You must sign in at the meetings to receive volunteer credit).

  • Tuesday, January 12, 2010
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • Tuesday May 11, 2010

If you need to contact the PTO President, Matthew Harden, please call the school to leave him a message.

Upcoming PTO Family Fun Nights

GCS/GICS Spelling BeesDecember 2, 2009, 6 pm
Winter Music FestivalDecember 15, 2009, 6 pm
Reading WorkshopDecember 17, 2009, 4-7pm
Movies Under The StarsJanuary 29, 2009, starts at dusk
Chuck E. Cheese NightApril 1, 2010, 3-9pm

School Advisory Council

The purpose of the Gateway Charter School Advisory Council is to work to ensure improved student achievement. It's role is to serve as the appropriate avenue for authentic and representative input for all teachers, parents, support personnel, students, business community representatives and administration. Council members meet monthly and are expected to communicate with constituents to collect data and opinions for decision making; report to constituents the actions taken by the Council and consider the needs of all students when making decisions.

SAC Meeting

There are no additional meetings for the 2009-2010 School Year Student Advisory Council.

SAC Meeting Minutes

March 4, 2010
December 10, 2009
September 17, 2009

Volunteer Info

Parents are required to volunteer 20 hours for the first child and 10 additional hours per additional child attending Gateway Charter School. Hours are prorated to two hours a month if their children are accepted after school has begun. Half of the families' volunteer hours should be completed by December 15th. Volunteer hours are monitored monthly by Administration. It is very important that all parents participate and get involved in their child/ren's education.

Your child's teacher can provide you with ideas about the many ways you can assist in the classroom as well as after school hours in order to earn your volunteer hours. There are many opportunities for parents to assist at the school with or without planning ahead of time.

Remember to bring valid identification (drivers license or state issued id) when you are volunteering at a school. Please first stop at the main office to sign in, have your id scanned, and a badge issued to you. All volunteers must be scheduled with a teacher/staff member prior to volunteering or our office staff will identify a location in the school where your services are needed at that time.

Parents are required to log in their own volunteer hours on SIS.

Steps to entering volunteer hours:

  1. Log in to SIS above.
  2. Enter your username and password. Use the same username and password for logging in volunteer hours as you do to view your child's grades.
  3. Click on your child's name.
  4. Scroll down to the middle of the page to the section titled "Volunteer Hours." Click on [view/edit].
  5. Click on the title "Give time to" and then choose the teacher's name for which you are completing the hours.
  6. Type in a description of the work you did while you were volunteering for these hours [Volunteer Action box].
  7. Click on the appropriate number of hours you completed. (Round to the nearest half hour) [Hours]
  8. Click on YES if your hours are already completed; Click on NO if the hours still need to be completed.
  9. Remember to check 'completed' once you have finished volunteering in the capacity you have submitted approved for.
  10. Check ADD for your volunteer hours to be calculated.

Volunteers are needed every day at Gateway Charter School in both the elementary and intermediate school classrooms. Please ask your child's teacher about opportunities he/she has for you OR come by our office. We will always find someplace where your skills will benefit the teachers and students of our school.

Here is a list of SOME of the things you can volunteer to do:

  • Morning Care 6:30-8:00am
  • Breakfast assist and clean-up (7:30-8:15)
  • Arrival Duty in the a.m. (30 minutes daily)
  • Lunch Duty in the cafeteria 10:15-12:30
  • Dismissal Duty in the p.m. (30 minutes daily)
  • Wash & dry uniforms in nurse's office for "emergencies"
  • Participate in our many PTO activities and fundraising events
  • Change bulletin boards (each one gets updated by 1st of each month)
  • Set-up, serve, and clean-up at each Honor Roll Party (quarterly)
  • Stuff and stamp envelopes (for Registrar in January/February)
  • Check PTO bulleting board to assist various committees
  • Set-up, chaperone, and clean-up at each dance
  • Assist in the library (Schedule with librarian)
  • Extra hands in the Art Room (Schedule with art teacher)