Volunteering
Get Involved — Volunteer!
When adults volunteer, all students benefit. There are many opportunities for parents and community members to get involved. Your help is needed! If we all work together and "Give an Hour", Hopkinson will be an even more amazing educational institution. Click on the 'Give an Hour' link below and download the form to share your special talents / areas of expertise with us.
LOG YOUR HOURS
This year, we have made it even easier to log your hours. Click HERE for the simple directions!!!
Did you know...
We must keep track and submit our TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS for each year to the California State PTA in order to maintain our NON-PROFIT status among other purposes?
Most of us underestimate how much time we actually spend helping out.
Here are some areas that qualify:
* Helping with TK Playdate, Emergency Kits, and School Supplies (before school is in!).
* Volunteering as Room Parent.
* Any time spent in the Classroom or on Campus.
* Time spent making Phone Calls or sending E-mails to staff, parents and/or guardians.
* Planning and attending PTA meetings, Carnival, Ice-Cream Social/Movie Night, Hopkinson's Got Talent, Campout, and Special Persons Day.
* Media Center or Wellness Center help (including training).
* HOMEwork-Time spent prepping, cutting, assembling things for the teacher/classroom.
* Shopping for teachers/events (i.e., Staff Appreciation Week, birthdays, class parties, etc.)
* Helping with Red Ribbon Week, Peace Week, Neurodiversity Week, Kindness Week, etc.
* CARNIVAL (booth preparation, shifts, attendance, clean up).
* Time spent planning, prepping, and presenting Meet the Masters.
* BOOK FAIR- Planning, set-up/decorations, ordering, shifts, take-down.
* If you are a PTA Board Member: Time spent planning meetings, writing agendas, minutes, checks, correspondence, reports, updating website/marquee, working on newsletters, trips to the bank, conventions, workshops, etc.
* Commute Time for any of the above.
EVERY MINUTE COUNTS!!
Please tally all your volunteer hours!
For April, May and June, please ESTIMATE the hours you plan on contributing.
Volunteer hours need to be submitted in April to send to the State PTA.
Please do not re-submit time already logged in on the Front Office sign-in sheet.
On behalf of the Hopkinson PTA, we THANK YOU for all your hard work and dedication throughout the school year!
This year, we have made it even easier to log your hours. Click HERE for the simple directions!!!
Warmly,
Araceli Santos
2024-2025 Historian
