Parent Involvement (PTA)

Parent Teacher Association

The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) enables all parents to play an active role in enhancing the course of their children’s education.  The PTA works hard to develop school spirit, promote community programs and religious events within the school, fundraise to provide additional resources to the school, create a family feeling by making parent and family social events, and foster good communication between parents and teachers.  We strongly encourage all parents to participate in the many PTA events.  The meetings are held about once every other month and are open to the entire parent body.  The PTA collects a fee per child (with a family maximum), to cover the costs associated with various programs and initiatives coordinated by the PTA.  This fee is collected with the book orders in September.  The fee for 2011-12 is $35 per child with a family maximum of $100.

School Service Requirement

In a small school like ours the need for help from parents is important in allowing us to provide the best possible programming for our students.  Our school service program requires each family to contribute 12 hours of time assisting in various school programs throughout the school year.  There are literally dozens of service opportunities available; the PTA coordinates these activities.

Parents are required to submit a cheque in the amount of $400 with the school registration forms, post-dated to June 1, 2012.  The cheque will be cashed at the end of the year ONLY IF the family DOES NOT meet its school service obligation.  

Fundraising

The PTA promotes several vehicles throughout the year to raise funds.  One of the most popular is selling Safeway gift cards.   The cards are purchased and sold at face value and Safeway donates up to 8% of the purchase price back to Hebrew Academy. The cards have no expiration date and can be used at any Safeway. Parents are encouraged to bring their fundraising suggestions to the attention of the PTA.