How to Help
There are many opportunities for you to get involved in volunteering for Sojourner:
Box Tops
One parent is needed to help encourage, collect, and submit Box Tops. This is an easy way to help make a little extra money for our school and it can be done almost entirely from home and with a few visits to the school.
Classroom Volunteering

Specific needs vary depending on the classroom but staff and students alike appreciate classroom volunteers. The Primary classrooms especially appreciate a parent volunteer in the classroom each morning, and parent volunteers are also needed in the Violin room on a regular basis. If you have daytime availability, contact a classroom teacher for guidance.

Enrichment Nights

Enrichment Nights are family-friendly, evening events that offer our community the opportunity to get together outside of school hours. The themes of the evening vary — sometimes we get together to learn more about topics relevant to our school, and sometimes we just get together to have a little fun. Enrichment Nights are completely volunteer-run and we usually need a little help with set-up and take down. Requests for your help in creating successful events will come by email or through our community Facebook page.

Field Day
A favorite event among Sojourner Students, Field Day is an end of year celebration and day of fun! We need volunteers to contribute a few supplies, help serve food, snow cones, popcorn, and participate/oversee multiple fun activities for the kids.
Field Trips

Volunteers are needed to chaperone field trips during the school year. Sojourner staff will announce field trips and forms will be sent home to request being a chaperone. As with all volunteering opportunities, you must complete Volunteer Training and required District Volunteer Background Forms in order to participate.

Fundraising Committee

Fundraising is a necessity for the Sojourner Program and requires many hours of volunteerism to be successful. Please attend Auction and Raffle Meetings and get involved with the Fundraising Committee. There are dozens of ways that you can participate and help with these important events. Even if you work during the week, we have evening and weekend meetings to accommodate all schedules. 

Hearing/Vision Testing

At the beginning of each school year, we need a few parents to assist the district school nurse in completing hearing and vision exams on students.

Jog-A-Thon

Our annual Jog-A-Thon is a community fundraiser. We need families to support their children’s efforts by helping to get pledges and also cheer them on at the event, run with the kids for encouragement, mark laps, and serve water and fruit. You can anticipate this event happening shortly after school starts in the fall.

Pods

Pods are mixed-age groups that encourage students to explore a common interest in great depth. They are a true highlight for Sojourner students, as they are allowed to select which topic they would like to explore! Subject examples include: guitar, gardening, soccer, jewelry making, origami, chess, sewing and more. There are three Pod sessions per school year that last 8 – 10 weeks and each Pod is 45 minutes, twice a week. In order to keep the groups small, we depend upon parent volunteers to help lead Pods. It is never too early to start brainstorming about a Pod you would like to teach.

Staff Appreciation Week
At Sojourner, we like to celebrate our wonderful staff for an entire month! One day per week, for one month, we ask our community to help shower our staff with appreciation by bringing themed food dishes, small handmade gifts, and flowers. Please keep an eye out for an email preceding the month of May and a sign-up for ways that you can contribute.
Swim Days

Sojourner students get to spend time in the water at North Clackamas Aquatic Park. This is an educational and school-wide opportunity to learn water safety and have fun. Parent Volunteers are an essential element of the swim program. Without them we would be unable to offer it. The North Clackamas Aquatic Park requires that we have 20-22 volunteers in the water during each session.

Violin Helpers

Learning violin is a special experience for Sojourner students, but to be successful it takes the support of several parent volunteers:

  1. Daily Violin Tuner: One parent is needed for about 30 minutes each day to help get the violins ready. No experience needed! This is a great volunteer gig for a parent who has a small child in tow. If you can help, please contact our parent volunteer.
  2. Violin Loan Program: Every Wednesday morning, we need four volunteers to help collect the violins, inspect and tune the returned instruments, prepare them to go back out to students and deliver them to the classrooms. This time commitment is 1 – 2 hours. Again, no experience needed! If you can help, please contact our parent volunteer.
  3. Violin Loan Program Coordinator: The violin loan coordinator collects program agreements and organizes a check out schedule based on violin size and available dates. The time commitment for the violin loan coordinator is about 1-2 hours per week at home preparing the schedule and practice forms for check-out. If this is a job you can help out with, contact our volunteer coordinator.

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