Room Parents

There are four key areas of responsibility for Head Room Parents:

1. Communication
   • With parents, including snow day notification and upcoming calendar events and fundraising activity.
   • With teaching staff - meet with your teacher and ask what teacher expects of parents in terms of involvement in the classroom, class trips, end of term activities etc.
2. Coordination of parental events in the classroom, including;
   • Holiday class party
   • Post class play food (waters, juices, baked goods, fruit, vegetables etc)
3. Organizing end of term gifts and event thank you’s for staff
   • Christmas gift ($100)
   • End-of-year gift ($100)
   • Post concert flowers & thank you cards - for teachers & music teacher.
   • Ensure parents understand that any other additional gifting is entirely voluntary and not expected by the staff.
4. Administration
   • Creation of class contact list - emergency contact numbers (e.g. for snow days), and email list for ongoing updates.
   • Collection of class dues and management of expenditures.
   • Head room parent to ensure one room parent rep (self or assistant) attends each Parent Council Meeting.