Family Participation Program

City Tree Christian School needs your help!  Our classes, student programs, and Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) events need your support to be effective and successful.  To that end, we have in place a Family Participation Program.  This is a mandatory program that renews each school year.  The requirements for this program are as follows:

All families of elementary age students must participate.

• Minimum requirement is 20 hours per year.

• Participants must be age 18 or over.

• Hours must be completed by March 31 of each school year.

• Families who do not meet the 20 hour minimum will be subject to a $200 fee due by May 1.  Families must complete the entire 20 hours to be eligible for the $200 fee waiver.

If you are unable to complete the participation hours, you may choose to optout.  Each tuition account for families who opt out will be charged a $200 fee in April of the school year.

Families with more than one elementary child are only required to complete 20 hours total.

City Tree staff will issue stickers for each 15 minutes of participation.  Most staff members and key PTO officers will have stickers to issue.

Parents are responsible for requesting these stickers from staff members. When you are issued stickers, find your child’s name in the Participation Binder located in the school office, fill out the appropriate information (see example on the reverse side of this sheet), and apply your sticker(s). There will be one sheet per family.

It is the responsibility of each family to put their stickers in a safe place!  Stickers cannot be issued more than once for the same participation hours, so it is important to add them to the binder as soon as possible.
Stickers can not be given to another family.

The following is a list of participation opportunities:

1. Help in a classroom, including, but not limited to, driving on field trips, preparing supplies for projects or assignments, grading papers, working with students, supervising activities, etc.

2. Performing Room Parent duties such as organizing class activities/parties, working on the Christmas program, etc.

3. Attending PTO meetings, serving on PTO committees for such activities as Fall Festival, Gala, Creative Arts Festival, fundraising, etc.

4. Assisting with school-sponsored activities such as basketball, cheerleading, choir, After-School Program.

5. Assist in the office with clerical tasks.

6. Help with school events such as assemblies, field trips, picture days, fun runs, Open House, etc.

The list above represents just a few opportunities for you to get involved.  When you desire to volunteer in any capacity, or if you have other ideas of how you might assist our school, please make arrangements in advance so that we can take full advantage of your help.