Getting Involved
Gateway Charter School requires families to volunteer their time during the school year. Families are required to volunteer 20 hours 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; and purchasing items for the classroom or school.
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 PTSO helps to promote an enriched educational environment by fostering and implementing programs that enriches the cultural and social lives of our students and enhances the educational facilities for our school.
The General PTO Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday, every other month, at 6:30pm in the elementary cafeteria. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend our meetings. Become a member of the PTO for $10 and receive one hour of volunteer time. Also, all members earn volunteer time when they attend each meeting.
- Thursday, March 20, 2008
- Thursday, May 15, 2008
If you have a question or comment for our President or any Board Member, please contact them via the PTO email address: ptogcs@gatewaycharterschool.org or at volunteersgcs@gatewaycharterschool.org.
PTO Board Members
- Sheri Orndorff, President
- Marc Whitfield, Treasurer
- marie Fray, Corresponding Secretary
- Trelle Loucks, Recording Secretary
- Claudine Milz, Fundraising Coordinator Chairperson
- Lisa Levy, Fundraising Coordinator
- June Wall, Fundraising Coordinator
- Ruth Harrison, Volunteer Coordinator Chairperson
- Gin Ali, Volunteer Coordinator
We look forward to a wonderful school year!
Thank you for your support!
School Advisory Council
The purpose of the Gateway Charter School 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.
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. Students whose parents have not completed the all of their required hours by May 15th will be placed on the waiting list.
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:
- Log in to SIS above.
- 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.
- Click on your child's name.
- Scroll down to the middle of the page to the section titled "Volunteer Hours." Click on [view/edit].
- Click on the title "Give time to" and then choose the teacher's name for which you are completing the hours.
- Type in a description of the work you did while you were volunteering for these hours [Volunteer Action box].
- Click on the appropriate number of hours you completed. (Round to the nearest half hour) [Hours]
- Click on YES if your hours are already completed; Click on NO if the hours still need to be completed.
- Remember to check 'completed' once you have finished volunteering in the capacity you have submitted approved for.
- Check ADD for your volunteer hours to be calculated.
Volunteers are needed every day at Gateway Charter School in both the elementary and middle 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)
- Sort Lost & Found at elementary level (monthly)
- 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)
- Kids Club assistance (3:00-6:00pm)
- Extra hands in the Art Room (Schedule with art teacher)
- Extra hands in our Pre-K Room (Schedule with teacher)