PTO Volunteer Opportunities

After the Prom Party (ATPP)

Donation Form (.pdf)

 

A cast of many is needed for this annual party for seniors! This event has provided a safe, fun, and substance-free after-prom environment for Brookline students for the past nineteen years. We need parent volunteers from every grade to assist with fundraising, decorations, food, program, chaperoning, set-up and clean-up for one of the most exciting and anticipated events of the year. Traditionally, junior parents host and chaperone the party with Brookline Recreation Department employees and BHS faculty. This is an opportunity to meet and work with parents from every grade. Volunteers are needed for the following committees:

• Prize committee.  This committee solicits donations of items to be raffled as prizes at the party. You need to be organized, comfortable asking for things, often more than once, and willing to follow up. 
• Setup and breakdown committee.  This committee works the day of the party setting up the Tappan gyms, where the party is held, and taking the party down beginning at 6:00 the morning after the party.
• Decoration committee. This committee designs the party according to the theme and creates the decorations.  
• Fundraising committee. This committee needs help stuffing envelopes and working at a phonathon. 
• Host committee. This committee needs parents (not of seniors though) who can help at the party, either for the whole night from midnight to 5:00 am or in shifts from midnight to 2:30am and 2:30 am to 5:00 am.

To Volunteer, contact one of the party co-chairs, Joan Hyde (CIHMD@aol.com) or Jennifer Foley (jennafoley@aol.com).
To Donate, please print out the ATPP Donation Form and mail/phone with your donation.

Planning Committee for Special Events

 

This committee organizes the much-appreciated annual PTO-sponsored October staff-appreciation breakfast and June staff-appreciation luncheon.

 

If you are interested in working at one of these events and/or can donate food please contact one of the co-chairs, JoAnn Winston (joann@winstonfamily.com 617/734-1991) or Mimi Levine (mimilvn@rcn.com 617/566-1937).

Friends of Performing Arts (FoPA)

 

Friends of Performing Arts (FoPA) is a volunteer parent group dedicated to supporting BHS’s rich array of performing arts activities. Our goal is to ensure that dance, drama, music and stagecraft remain a vital component of our children’s education.

 

The committee meets only four times a year, and activities range from ushering and selling tickets/refreshments at performances to building awareness of BHS’ arts offerings and advocating for sustained public funding for the arts in Brookline. Our first meeting for 2010-11 is planned for October 25th at 7:00 p.m. in the BHS staff lounge next to the MLK Room.

 

Please join us in keeping BHS a community that supports the vibrant spirit of creative expression through the performing arts. For more information or to volunteer to be a part of this lively group, contact Karen Campbell at 617.739.0873 or karen_campbell@brookline.k12.ma.us. And be sure to visit the FoPA website at http://fopa.weebly.com/.

Friends of BHS Gardens

 

This group believes a beautiful environment is a better learning environment, so they assist in tending gardens at BHS. In 2004-05, landscape and seating designs were created for the quad. In 2005-06, over 500 hosta and other perennials were donated by Brookline neighbors. In 2006-07 annuals were planted to bloom in time for graduation.

 

If you have a green thumb or are interested in gardening, please contact Marsha Zierk at Marsha_Zierk@mad.uscourts.gov or 617/731-3365.

Annual College Essay Workshop for Seniors

 

BHS PTO's annual COLLEGE ESSAY WORKSHOP is Saturday, September 25, 2010, and begins at 8:30.  Your senior can sign-up at http://2010collegeworkshop.eventbrite.com.

 

Whether your child has done advance work on the personal essay required for most college applications or hasn't given the essay a thought, this free workshop will be helpful. It's designed to move students to the next step: get started, re-evaluate an idea, make an editorial leap, or add the final touches to a compelling personal statement.

 

This workshop is offered every September by the PTO, led by the dedicated BHS English faculty and supported by parent volunteers. Students are grouped with others at a similar stage of writing, and get individual attention and feedback. In the past four years, nearly 1,000 seniors have found this workshop effective in getting them going, giving them confidence, and helping them finish up the process.

 

The College Essay Workshop, sponsored by the PTO, depends on parent volunteers! Please sign up at http://2010collegeworkshop.eventbrite.com to help students with their writing or to provide logistical support. This is a one-day, one-time commitment. If you're working with the students, you'll get an orientation on helping students with their writing.