VOLUNTEER SIGN UP OPPORTUNITIES
Choosing to become a Riverside family means making it a priority to take an active role in the life of our school. The success of our mission depends greatly on the commitment of parents to make our program a real part of your family’s time, energy, and resources. Parents participate in a variety of ways, meeting many of our needs.
Below you will find descriptions of a variety of all volunteer opportunities with links to online sign ups for each.
Signing the form does not mean you're making a commitment, just that you're willing to be asked when the need arises.
(If you signed up on paper at the Back to School Orientation, you do not need to sign up again, a parent volunteer will transfer those names for us.)
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HELP WITH 5-6th GRADE TEAM: Sean will be coaching the 7-8 team and supporting parent volunteers with leading the 5-6th grade team. Please sign up to help coach the younger team!
REFEREES: If you are confident in your understanding of the rules of soccer and would enjoy being at the center of our home games, please consider helping by refereeing a game or two! We can provide you with a whistle, a stop watch, and yellow & red cards, which hardly ever have to be used! Alumni parent Mike Moore is willing to train new referees.
GAME SNACKS: Our teams would appreciate it if a few parents could sign up to bring healthy snacks for half time of our games, both home and away. Those games are usually Tuesdays and Thursdays, and typical treats include fruit, nuts, cookies, trail mix, or muffins.
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FALL FIELD TRIP OVERNIGHT STAY |
4-8th graders will be in Derby, VT Wednesday-Friday, September 13-15. We encourage parents to join us for any part of the field trip that they can, whether it's part of the day, a meal, a night, or the whole three days, as only the 4-8th graders do. We only need you to follow the link and sign if if we need to save a bed for you, and can thus count on you to supervise students at bedtime, overnight, and getting organized in the morning.
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In the fall the 3-5th graders and in the spring the K-2nd graders swim on Friday afternoons at NVU. We always welcome more help for students to practice skills, keep track of their belongings, and manage changing time.
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PARENT FUNDRAISER: YARD SALE |
Saturday, October 7 is our Fall Festival and 75-Family Yard Sale, known throughout the Lyndonville community. We need many, many volunteers to work shifts under the direction of our crew of managers/chair people.
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We are striving to build our list of friends willing to lend a hand when teachers are sick or have other obligations. Feel free to express your preference for only being called well in advance, for specific age groups, or for subject areas.
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SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER: RACE BACK TO SCHOOL |
This event is Thursday, September 21, and is for the whole NEK community and those who visit Kingdom Trails. Pledges raised by Riverside families and friends (according to laps and points they earn) will go directly toward financial assistance for future Riverside students. Kingdom Trails may ask us for more volunteers to help with the whole event. Also, let us know if you plan to register yourself or a team, and if you'd be willing to help recruit others.
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This is a popular group! You will get an email about a week before an event and asked to send in an item. Events such as Open Houses, Plays, Festival Days/Events, and other fundraisers are better with tasty treats. It is understood that you will probably not be available to bake for each event, but when you can, you’ll be welcomed!
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Each year we strive to personalize as many of our annual appeal letters as possible. Envelope stuffers will be invited to spend 1-2 hours in the office folding, stuffing, and sticking labels to our biggest mailing of the year. Note writers will be oriented to how we do that, invited to meet for snacks and conversation with their favorite pen, and given a pile of 30-50 letters to personalize, encouraging them to donate to Riverside.
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PARENT FUNDRAISER: SUPER RAFFLE |
This parent-led fundraiser is scheduled for May 11 and is our biggest of the school year. We need helpers in the weeks ahead to solicit prize donations and to plan food and entertainment. That weekend we need people to prepare food, and help with set up and clean up.
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Riverside faculty work long days while meeting with parents and students twice this year. We are very grateful to a small group of volunteers who will provide us with some simple, finger foods to sustain us!
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You will be asked to help transport, supervise, and/or ski/ride with students at Burke Mountain or Kingdom Trails for each of 6-7 Friday afternoons in January, February and March. We will ask you to pay for your ticket (<$20) and rentals (<$15), if you do not already have a pass or equipment.
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SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY COMMITTEE |
This group will try to attend to the needs and celebrations of our students, teachers, and their families. If there is a family emergency, birth, or faculty member leaving, these volunteers would notice and choose an appropriate way to address it.
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Our campus regularly needs fresh coats of paint, especially indoors. If you’re good with a can and a brush, and like the quiet, meditative task of freshening up a space with a new coat of paint, please sign up! Note that we have some specific goals for this year, which you could do whenever you want, or that we may just need extra help with something and get in touch with you when we need to. Sign up here and then you will get an email with more specific directions.
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PARENT FUNDRAISER: WINTER TRIVIA NIGHT |
In an effort to help reach the $25,000 goal for parent led fundraisers, we're excited about an adult-friendly, fun, evening trivia event in January or February. This would be a new event for Riverside, and we hope it will appeal to friends beyond the parent community. If you're willing to help make something happen out of these ideas, please sign up below. Later this fall another parent will be in touch to get you started, if you're still interested at that time.
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BUILDING AND GROUNDS MAINTENANCE |
We work as a community to maintain our unique and historic facilities and grounds. Parent volunteers are an essential part of meeting its needs. Please let us know if you are willing and your specific skills.
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Sometimes we need an extra hand with mailings, filing, data entry, or answering phones, especially when our business manager has other commitments. If you’re willing to lend a hand in the front office, we’d appreciate it.
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Do you have a skill, talent, or hobby that could enrich our program for students? Engaging active learners involves sharing with them all that our supportive community has to offer. Construction? Ceramics? Fitness? Martial Arts? Photography? World Languages? Yoga?
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PARENT FUNDRAISER: SPRING SEED SALE |
Beginning in early March, work with High Mowing Seeds to coordinate a seed sale fundraiser, where 50% of sales are donated back to Riverside. Coordinating involves writing notes and updates for the Monday Memo, getting order forms out to all families and collecting them, picking up seeds and organizing them for delivery at Riverside.
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We rely on parent help with costumes, props, set construction, and general supervision. Parent volunteers would be supervising students and facilitating their creative process and collaboration. Some of these efforts happen over weeks in advance during December-March, some just the week of March 11-16, or day of the performances March 15-16.
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We have a tradition of biking to school on the last regular day of the year. It's essential that we keep groups small and developmentally appropriate. Would you be willing to bike with some younger students who needed support on the morning of May 31?
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PARENT FUNDRAISER: LAST CALL RESTAURANT EVENT |
This event has yet to be planned; it's only been imagined as a parent-event at a local bar/restaurant at the end of the school year.
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Not at all like the stereotype you may have in mind, our “dances” often include our whole student body, plenty of student-led games and activities, and a casual and fun time had by all. Don’t let your child tell you they don’t want you there, it’s a great time to get to know other kids and to support the faculty who are also there.
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SPRING FIELD TRIP CHAPERONE |
We rely heavily on parents to transport and supervise small groups of kids throughout this annual adventure. Please make sure you are willing to drive your car with students and to sleep in a room with students. This year we hope the 4-8th grade trip will be Quebec City, May 15-17.
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What haven’t we thought of? What might you be able to offer to our to our school, to our program, or to our students? Please email Nelia with your specialties:
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