Welcome to the Parent Action Team!
The Parent Action Team (PAT) at Moscow Charter School is a group of parents volunteering to help make our school the best it can be for our kids.
We would LOVE to get some more volunteers to help with a variety of events, you can choose what, when and how much you would like to help out, we appreciate any help we can get.
The PAT plans fun events like the Back-to-School Ice Cream Social, Teacher Appreciation Week and brunches during parent-teacher conferences and awesome fundraisers like our annual Bingo Night and Fun Run!! The funds raised are used to help fund special projects for Moscow Charter School, and to help meet the needs of our teachers and students and ensure they have all the tools they need for a successful year!!
WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED!!!
PAT Meetings (All year long, we try to meet once a month):
- Secretary (take notes during meetings, post notes on our Facebook group)
- People to help come up with ideas and plan upcoming events
- Approve requests from the school or teachers
Bingo Night (March/ Spring Event):
- Ask for donations and pick them up if needed -
- Write donation letters, thank you letters, and donation receipts
- Make info/bid sheet for auction items
- Make a list of bingo prizes
- Make signs/posters
- Advertise for the event (Tristate billboard, Facebook, MCS webpage, newspapers, etc.)
- Buy items for the event (decoration, etc.)
- Make gift baskets/cards
- Set up for the event
- Run the event (banker, collect money, hand out prizes, help with silent/live auction) - see signup
- Clean up
Teacher Appreciation Brunches (in connection with Parent-Teacher conferences):
- Make signups for brunch
- Get people to sign up
- Set up table
- Decorate
- Clean up afterward
Teacher Appreciation Week (May):
- Come with ideas
- Ask for donations (gift cards, gift items, lunch)
- Make gifts
- Set up gifts in the morning
- Set up for lunch
- Clean up after lunch
Fun Run (May):
- Plan the event
- Set up
- Run games/activities
- Help with decoration
- Help with tallying laps
- Handing out snacks
- Help with prizes
Back-to-school event (August):
- Plan event
- Purchase items needed
- Set up for the event
- Run event
- Clean up after the event
Grants (during the year):
- Apply for grants
HOW THE FUNDS RAISED HAVE BEEN SPENT.........................................................
The PAT funds many different types of projects. We have raised money for items for the school such as the basketball court, updated landscaping, the walking path (with the help of an Eagle Scout), playground equipment, lockers for the new building, and a new school sign (coming soon)!!
We also raise money to help fund smaller events and projects to ensure the needs of our teachers and students are being met. Below are a few of the items the funds we have raised have been used to purchase:
- Annual Bookabunga Event- Author of the day
- Field trips
- Back to School Ice Cream Social
- Make it to March Staff Appreciation Raffle
- Robotics entry fees, t-shirts, and equipment for our middle school Robotics team
- Staff spirit wear
- Art supplies for our art program
- Books for classroom libraries
- Sensory and calming tools, emotional support kitty, and notebooks for the counseling center
- New dictionaries for 4th grade
- Height adjustable science tables for the new science room
- School desks for 5th grade
- Additional furniture and desks for middle school teachers
- and many more!!
Volunteers don't necessarily have the time; they just have the heart!! - Elizabeth Andrew
Upcoming Events:
To help, please sign up here:
Volunteer Opportunities:
- Bingo Night
- Teacher Appreciation Week and brunches
- Fun Run
- MCS Gear Sales
- Back to School Ice Cream Social
Don't have time to volunteer? Consider helping out by:
Donating to the PAT
Cash or check donations can be dropped off at the front office of MCS.