There's always room for more volunteers on our wonderful and important PTA committees. Please get in touch at volunteer@miralomasf.com
Arts Committee
The Miraloma Arts Committee (MAC) involves parents and teachers in periodic meetings and ongoing activity promoting and supporting visual, musical, and other forms of arts and crafts school-wide, in the classrooms, and in the wider community.
Each year the committee hosts and amazing Visual Arts Show that showcases the work of every child at Miraloma.
Auction Committee
This is our largest fundraising event, but more importantly, it’s an opportunity to connect with other Miraloma parents and teachers in a fun-filled evening with food, dancing and the opportunity to bid on terrific items…all while benefiting the kids! Read our FAQ to get all the details
Community Service Committee
The Community Service Committee is dedicated to promoting the spirit and idea of giving back to the community. The committee offers opportunities for Miraloma families to engage in various projects that are designed to serve their communities close to home and around the world. Activities include donation drives and volunteering at the SF Food Bank. Check our school calendar and newsletter for upcoming activities.
Contact us to get involved!
Fun Run Committee
The Fun RUN Committee organizes one of our largest fundraisers, the Miraloma Fun RUN. It is styled like a walk-a-thon where friends, relatives, and co-workers sponsor our students as they jog around a quarter mile track.
Garden Committee
The Garden Team supports Miraloma’s Garden Program from Education Outside and helps maintain our native plantings, educational garden and greenhouse, and ensures the well being of our school chickens by providing on site care outside of school hours.
We host weekend Garden Work Days that include weeding, planting and pruning. Additionally, we have larger scale projects such as irrigation, storage shed construction and installation of our outdoor kitchen in the works too. Look for updates in the newsletter, on our website and the bulletin board across from 108.
Tasks
Garden maintenance through Garden Work Parties & Brunch
Coordination of large scale garden projects
Chicken care
There are so many ways to help with Miraloma’s Gardens. Even an hour of weeding on your own time makes a huge difference. No experience necessary.
Grounds Committee
The Building & Grounds Committee focuses on improving the physical aspects of our school such as the play yards, educational gardens, grounds and building to support our children's physical well-being and improve both the interior and exterior aspects of the school. Future projects will target the first/second and upper yards. This Committee meets once a month in the evening and much of the work is done via email. Members include parents who work full time and outside the home.
Hospitality Committee
The Hospitality Committee coordinates food and beverages at various fundraising and community events.
Tasks
Organizes coffee, tea, and snacks at First Fridays
Coordinates food trucks, catering at events
Manages contacts with food & beverage vendors
Supports other committees in their hospitality needs
VOLUNTEER
Join our team!
Are you in the food business? Contact us to donate to an event.
Are you holding an event at Miraloma and need Hospitality materials?
Inclusive Schools Committee
The Inclusive Schools Committee organizes Miraloma's annual Inclusive Schools Week, as well as works year-round to foster a welcoming, accessible school community with integrated inclusive practices, curriculum, activities, facilities, communications and parent programs.
Parent volunteers help the committee realize a robust program for Inclusive Schools Week; roles include:
running PE Ability Awareness stations
preparing materials for & installing the school-wide art project
library readings
organizing the school-wide assembly.
Committee members liaison to and collaborate with the Grounds Committee, Recess Committee, Parent Ed, and others as needed.
Library Committee
The Library is partially staffed by parent/guardian volunteers. Volunteers help students and teachers in the library by reading to the classes, helping students select books, managing check-in/check-out procedures, and shelving books.
Volunteer
Adopt a Shelf: Come in whenever you have time and re-shelve books in alphabetical order. It only takes about 10 minutes a week!
Read-a-thon Committee
The Read-a-thon Committee organizes the annual 2-week Read-a-thon Event after the winter break.
Tasks
Online communication through newsletter & website
Communicate about in class reading/logging with teachers & staff
Update & send out reading logs
Tally minutes read at home and in class
Arrange reward prizes
Organize in school promotion
Work with Book Fair Committee
Recess
Committee
The Recess Team coordinates parent volunteers for recess yard duty. At recess, kids decompress, process learning, develop socially, exercise physically, and practice resolving conflicts. Having caring adults on the yard helps keep recess safe, fun, and inclusive for all students at Miraloma.
If you are interested in volunteering for recess (during morning or lunch recess) either on a regular or occasional basis, please email your availability and interest to recess@miralomasf.com.
For more frequent info and updates on recess games and info please join the recess volunteers yahoo group by sending a join request to recess@miralomasf.com.
Daily Recess Schedule
Morning Recess
9:10-9:40 AM: Kinder /1st grade (1st grade 9:20-9:40 AM)
9:20-9:40 AM: 2nd /3rd grade
9:45-10:05 AM: 4th /5th grade
Lunch Recess
11:00-11:20 AM: Kinder /1st grade
11:30-11:50 AM: 2nd /3rd grade
12:00-12:20 PM: 4th /5th grade
Snack Committee
The Snack Committee provides fresh fruits and vegetables to each class room daily, so our kids have a healthy snack in between breakfast and lunch.
Tasks
Ordering of produce from local farms.
Organizing the washing, cutting and distributing of the produce.
Volunteer
No need to join the committee, just come and help out whenever you have time:
All are welcome on Monday and Wednesday mornings after morning circle to help wash, cut, and count the delicious food we are serving. Just walk up to our beautiful garden on Myra Way. This is an excellent way to meet people and learn the ins and outs of the community.
We also need help every day after school collecting and washing bins. This is a golden opportunity to let your children wander through our lovely, organic garden munching on sorrel, while you wash bins in the beautiful sink.
Lastly, you can help by simply putting the bins outside your child's classroom.
Student Survey Committee
The Student Survey Committee consists of five or more people to help compose, distribute, and tabulate data from our annual school survey. This work begins in October and ends in March.
These Surveys are given to the children, teachers, and parents and are instrumental in giving the PTA and SSC information about our school climate. The results provide direction for implementing changes and new programs in our school. If you have any experience with sampling, statistics, or survey writing, this is the group for you.
Tours and Outreach Committee
The Tours & Outreach Committee coordinates Miraloma's presentations to prospective families at school fairs, arranges school tours and open houses, and answers the questions of parents considering Miraloma as a school choice.
If you are interested in helping out with tours, please email us at tours@miralomasf.com.
Web & Comms Committee
The Web & Communications Committee is committed to helping our school community reduce the use of paper while facilitating easy communications and efficient volunteering.
The two main digital communication tools for Miraloma are the weekly newsletter (Dragon Digest) that is sent out on Wednesdays during the school year and the Miraloma website.
We also support our community with options to sign up, RSVP, and donate online through our digital tools.
TOOLS/TASKS:
Website - Squarespace, Photoshop/Illustrator
Weekly Newsletter & Direct Mailings - Constant Contact
School E-Mail List Management - Constant Contact
Online Donations & Payments - PayPal & Schoolauction.net
Online Order Tracking - PayPal & Excel
Online Scheduling & Task Management - Doodle & SignupGenius
Online Auction - Schoolauction.net
Online Advertising - Photoshop for banner creation
All direct mailings from the school use the newsletter database. Please make sure we have your correct email address. Sign up or update your email here.
Welcome Committee
The Welcome Committee welcomes the new incoming Miraloma families.
Organize & host welcome events (play dates, welcome coffee)
Gather email addresses of incoming families
Send out welcome emails & updates
Answer questions from new families
Yearbook Committee
The Yearbook Committee designs, produces & distributes the annual school yearbook. It includes panel pages of students, teachers and staff and pictures of the Fun Run, Halloween parade, after school programs, field trips, class art projects, performances, and other fun experiences throughout the school year.
Tasks
Create a theme and design layout of the yearbook - Photoshop, Illustrator
Take & gather photo's of school events, activities and after school programs
Edit photos - Photoshop
Populate panel pages with photographs of all kids currently at Miraloma
Get pictures of students & staff who missed picture day
Coordinate with the yearbook volunteer parents to get a yearbook page for each class
Take yearbook orders and distribute in the last week of school
If you can help with ideas, proof pages, selling and distribution, or if you want to create your Classroom Yearbook Page, please email us!