PTA Volunteer Opportunities

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Just a note of thanks to all of our amazing volunteers! Your dedicated time—whether it’s an hour on a Zoom call or weeks spent rebuilding a website—have a major impact on how we can support our students. Thank you to all of our teams of parents, students, and teachers who show up whenever they can.

Become a Room Parent and/or join our many parent volunteers who run our programs and events throughout the year. If you are interested in leadership opportunities or developing a new program for the school, we would love to hear from you! Please contact president.harringtonelempta@gmail.com or you can sign up using Membership Toolkit Harrington Elementary School PTA - Open Forms (membershiptoolkit.com)

Vacant Position :

Movie Night event Lead : Lead a team of volunteers to organize and plan a movie night. Effort includes selecting a movie, setting up popcorn and candy table with help of PTA board and pizza sale conducted by 5th grade graduation committee. Communication support for the event.

Community Cultural Share Night Co Lead : Support the lead and a team of volunteers to organize a multicultural night. This is a special night to bring our community together while celebrating the customs, games, and history of countries from around the world.

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Curriculum Support

Committee
Chairperson
Description
Vice President Curriculum Support
Jennifer Zacharis
Book Swap
Bridget Koha
A.C.T (Arts Created Together)/Science
Jennifer Zacharis
Nicole Narang
The PTA brings curriculum enrichment programs to our students throughout the year. This team works with our principal, teachers, and staff to provide art and science programming that directly supports each grade level. To see just a few of the programs the PTA delivered, click here.
Math Nights
Shefali Rajpal Frampton &
Thakshila Dissanayake
This math enrichment program is run by parent volunteers to help 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders to build problem-solving skills. Math nights occur for each grade once a year and are a fun-filled night for the entire family.
Big Backyard (BBY)
Bridget Koha
Andrew Vonderheide
BBY is the District-wide, parent-run science enrichment outdoor program. It teaches the importance of exploring the outdoors while encouraging young learners to apply scientific questions and observations appropriate for each grade level. Volunteers for each classroom lead students on seasonal walks for science exploration.
Map Night
Jill Weng
The National Geographic Society Giant Map visits Harrington once a year. LPS and the PTA work together to surround this exciting opportunity with fun learning, crafts, and games.
Understanding Our Differences (UOD)
Colette Powell
Understanding Our Differences (UOD) is the District-wide, parent-run, interactive disabilities awareness curriculum for 3rd to 5th graders grounded in the belief that children are naturally curious about differences, and that accurate information can be the difference between acceptance and discrimination. The UOD program teaches students to be more inclusive and friendly, and to become allies of people with disabilities. The program covers a range of physical, sensory, learning, and developmental disabilities. Each unit is structured to provide accurate information, hands-on activities, and opportunities to meet guest speakers with disabilities. Parent volunteers are critical to the success of this program, as they lead the interactive small group activities. We provide scripts and easy-to-access training videos--It’s a great low-time commitment way to engage with your kids in school!

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School Support

Committee
Chairperson
Description
Vice President School Support
Amy O'Donnell
5th Grade Graduation
Open
5th Grade Parents team up with 5th Grade teachers and a 5th Grade student-run committee to plan and fundraise for the graduation ceremony, camping trip, yearbook, pool party, class gift, and other social-building events for the 5th Grade class.
Room Parents
Colleen Calhoun
Room Parents play a critical role in communications between teachers and families. They coordinate BBY, class celebrations, Spring Fair baskets, and welcome new families. Room parents can work together to help build classroom connections.
Teacher Appreciation
Amy O'Donnel
Erica Truxler
Lisa Andrews
Meg Tabela
This PTA team helps to lead volunteers from every class and grade in celebrating our teachers all year long and specifically during Teacher Appreciation Week in May.
Safe Routes to School
Jill Ward
This team works with the Town, LPS, and Harrington to ensure our students and families have safe access to walk and bike to school every day. Their efforts are helping us to get safer sidewalks and signage along Maple Street!
Green Team
Jill Weng
Our Green Team leads our volunteers in supporting school and Town-wide efforts for composting and recycling. The team works directly with our school, LPS, and DPW to reduce our school’s carbon footprint and enhance environmental education. Learn more here!
Outdoor Design (Beautification)
Ammie Jensen
This program assists our school in creating and maintaining spaces and opportunities to brighten our school environment or allow effective use of indoor and outdoor spaces. Bricks for sale, the meditation garden, and school playground projects fall under this PTA-run program.
Lost & Found
Meg Tabela
These volunteers bring organization to Harrington by helping our students to find their lost items. You will be amazed to see how much gets left behind every week.

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Community Building

Committee
Chairperson
Description
Vice President Community Building
Maryam Ahmad
Kindness Rocks
Open
METCO Family Friends
Mariah Edwards
METCO family friends connects our METCO students with fellow students once a month for after-school meet ups. Lexington-resident families are matched with a Boston family to ensure we build and maintain strong relationships for all of our Harrington Hawks. The 2020-2021 school year is being planned with COVID safety in mind.
Harrington Hurrah (back to school picnic)
Maryam Ahmad
The Harrington Hurrah kicks off our school year with an outdoor party of pizza, games, and fun. The entire family is welcome to celebrate and help support the fundraising efforts of our 5th Graders.
Talent Show
Ying Wang
Luyu Zhang
Ajita Mathur
This annual event gives all students the chance to share their special talents with our community in a fun and supportive environment.
Science Fair
Denise Grant
Ruchi Shah
The Harrington Science Fair lets our students share their science knowledge and skills with the entire school community for one evening. We welcome displays of science projects and experiments.
Community Cultural Share Night
Shefali Rajpal-Frampton
Open
We are fortunate to have Harrington families from many different backgrounds and cultures. This is a special night to bring our community together while celebrating the customs, games, and history of countries from around the world.
Movie Night
Open
Parents' Night Quarterly
Meg Tabela

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Fundraising

Committee
Chairperson
Description
Vice President Fundraising
Ruchi Shah
HarryPalooza
Lisa Andrew
Harrington’s Spring Fair is a beloved school tradition. Each spring, we come together to enjoy games, food, dunk tanks, magic shows and more as we wrap up the end of the school year. This is our school’s largest fundraiser to support our Arts Created Together & Science programs, our events, and the many school community efforts the PTA manages.
Fun Run
Lynne Sheeley
The Harrington Fun Run is a great school community event that helps us kick off the school year with exercise, fun, and lots of school spirit. Join friends, fellow Hawks, and our teachers as you race around a course set up around the school.
Booster
Presidents

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Membership

Committee
Chairperson
Description
Vice President Membership
Nicole Narang
Kindergarten Orientation
Nicole Narang
In the spring, Harrington invites incoming Kindergartners and their families for a visit. Our PTA works with these families to help them smoothly transition into their first year at Harrington.
Membership Directory
Nicole Narang
Students and families at Harrington can sign up to receive a print copy of our school family directory and/or access to the online Membership Toolkit: https://harringtonelem.membershiptoolkit.com/

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Communications

Committee
Chairperson
Description
Vice President Communications
Luyu Zhang
Biweekly Comms
Yiling Wang
Check your weekly emails from the PTA for PTA updates and Lexington community happenings. harringtonptacommunications@gmail.com
Website
Kevin Chen
The Harrington PTA website is the home for information about the PTA, Harrington, and our school community. The current website is undergoing a makeover. Please email president.harringtonelempta@gmail.com with any questions.
Social Media
Jiawei Liu, Luyu Zhang
Connect with our school via Facebook at Harrington Elementary School and on @PTA_Harrington!

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