Parent Activities Committee / Volunteers – Foundation Christian Academy

Foundation Christian Academy Parent Activities Committee

How can you best serve? Are you an organizer or are you great at assisting where you are needed? Do you like budget planning and fundraising? Put your talents to work! What are you passionate about? Everyone has a favorite FCA event! Is it Field Day, Calypso Fest, or the Book Fair? What do you enjoy? Reading to children in the library, making and playing games with our young children, or serving lunch with a smile? Parent involvement is essential to the success of FCA and allows us to provide our children with opportunities to grow outside the regular classroom. At Foundation Christian Academy, where parents and teachers work together to create a “village” for our children, we want every parent who desires to be active in the school to have that opportunity.

PAC Registration

All current and prospective parents/ volunteers who have contact with students must undergo a background screening each school year. Examples of volunteers who require a background screening include, but are not limited to: coaches, assistant coaches, field trip chaperones/ drivers, library helpers and lunchroom workers. The cost is $8-$18, based on where you have lived the previous 7 years.
Parents/ family members who do not opt to participate in the background screening may be denied access to special school/ classroom events such as student programs, plays, and visitation during school hours.
Background screening will need to be updated every year.

Link to Parent Advisory Committee Registration and Dues Form: PAC Registration

Link to Background Screening Form: Background Screenings

Teacher Appreciation
This committee plans the Teacher Appreciation Lunch in the spring and seeks other ways to let the teachers know how much they are appreciated.

Harvest Festival
This event needs lots of parent volunteers! In early November, we will host a family-friendly festival and vendor fair with fall games for preschool through 3rd grade.

Book Fair
This awesome event requires LOTS of volunteers from all grade levels.
We host a fall and a spring book fair in our school library. This is a wonderful way to get to know parents, teachers, and other students in the school. The chair begins planning a month prior. Other committee volunteers generally make themselves available for at least one day to work the event.

Foundation Fathers Campout
FCA students and their dads campout in tents on the school campus. About 3 moms generally help with the cookout shopping and set up.

Labors of Love (L.O.L.)
This committee needs a team of 3-5 volunteers to assist with our service-a-thon.

Calypso Fest
This is FCA’s biggest family night. Each class, preschool through high school, prepares a food or game booth. We need at least one parent volunteer from each classroom to assist the teacher.

Field Day
This day takes place the last week of school and needs lots of volunteers to work with the PE teacher planning outdoor events.

Library
Parents have the opportunity to read to the students. You may volunteer to help once a week or 1-2 days a month.

Panther Cafe
Parents are needed to assist the children once a week or once a month.

Classroom Representative
One parent representative is needed from each classroom, grades preK-5th, and two representatives for each grade, 6th-12th, to attend meetings during the school day and help organize events.

*Each week the school newsletter email, PANTHER POST, will highlight upcoming events in which parent volunteers are needed. This is another way to get involved in the school and to meet other parents.