Volunteer Opportunities
Please be sure to complete the SPS Volunteer process first before reaching out about volunteering: https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/volunteer/volunteer-application-process/
Small student groups
Would you like to come and volunteer on campus? Would you like to work with a small group of students? B.F. Day teachers welcome parent volunteers into their classrooms for small group support. Volunteers need to complete the volunteer orientation through the district and provide proof of vaccination. If interested, please contact your child’s teacher directly and notify the front office of when you intend to volunteer.
Dragon Scales
We’re looking for three-four parent volunteers that want to help us on Friday, December 17. We’ll be celebrating the winter season with classes that earned the Dragon Scales reward, and we need a couple more pairs of hands to help coordinate and support. We especially need volunteers to come decorate the cafeteria before the celebrations. It’ll be a fun time! Please email nlzisko@seattleschools.org if you’re able to come and celebrate with us.
Boys and Girls Club Walking Bus
At least 3 parent volunteers are needed to walk about 50 students who usually ride the 670 and 671 to the Boys and Girls Club after school, due to the expected shortage of general education bus drivers following the COVID vaccination requirement deadline for drivers Monday, October 18. It is about a 20 minute walk, and it will be difficult for staff to shoulder this responsibility so we ask for your help. Sign up
Lunch
Parent volunteers are greatly needed to help clean tables, deliver the food cart, and help with getting students back to class. You can join a class for a lunch period of 20 minutes or longer. We have 4 lunches per day. Please Sign up. Completed vaccines and a daily attestation will be needed to volunteer. Thank you!
Library
Library volunteers are needed to add a little love to our library. Please contact Ms. Siler, tcsiler1@seattleschools.org if you can volunteer.
Global Reading Challenge
Calling all parents! Love reading? Love libraries? Love kids? Love B.F. Day? (Who doesn't?). The Global Reading Challenge approaches and we need volunteers! If you don't know of it, the GRC is a reading incentive program for all Seattle Public Schools hosted yearly by the Seattle Public Library. Eight very worthy books are selected, 4 th & 5 th grade students form teams, read, then participate in virtual trivia challenges! Teams meet during selected school lunchtimes, discuss the books, and quiz each other on details. The books are available to check out from the library, or as an e-book from your library account. We also have exciting virtual author events November through January! What we do need, aside from kids who are hungry for reading, are some volunteers to help at the lunchtime meetings to interact with the kiddos, help quiz their knowledge of the books, and come up with some practice questions. It's a fun, easy, and rewarding gig, and you have the chance to get to know some of the other amazing students in our school. Please let us know if you can help! Joe Eike, jo.fuller@gmail.com or Tamara Siler, tcsiler1@seattleschools.org
Recess
Recess monitor volunteers are also welcome.
