Parent Participation Program

The Parent Participation Program (PPP) was created with three (3) goals in mind:

• To allow parents to be involved with their children’s education.
• To offer the best education possible within the financial means available to us.
• To build school community.

The overall goal of this program is to encourage parents’ participation – not to generate revenue for the school.  Our school community can only benefit from increased participation of our parent community.

Highlights of the program are:

• Each family commits to 15 hours of volunteer service to Immaculate Conception school per year (more is welcomed and encouraged).
• Families may choose to donate money in lieu of their participation in this program.
• Each family will submit a cheque, post-dated for May 15th of the following year, in the amount of $150.00.  When they have completed their hours, their cheque will be returned.

How does the program work?

The term for each school year will commence July 1 and will end on June 30. Each family is asked to contribute hours of service within this period and to record their hours on a PPP Hours Log Sheet.  There is a sheet for July to December and January to June.

Each family must submit a Parent Participation cheque for $150.00 dated September 30, or May 31. If there is a shortfall of the 15 hours, then an equivalent portion of the $150.00 will be retained by the school. (E.g. A family completing 10 hours will have $100.00 returned.)

Each family is requested to contribute some of their volunteer hours to our major fundraisers (Dinner/Dance Gala and Walkathon) as well as maintenance work bees scheduled throughout the year.

Please refer to the PPP Category Descriptions and submit your PPP Checklist.

Who can volunteer?

Each family is invited to include parents, grandparents or siblings to help out at the school.   We are striving to build community and this provides an opportunity for our larger faith community to become involved in our school community.  Volunteers must be 19 years or older and a criminal record check is required for all volunteers working with children.

The PPP Volunteer Contact Sheet provides the contacts for the various areas where volunteers are required.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Immaculate Conception School Council PPP representative - Maggie Daly at daly5@shaw.ca.