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At Central Synagogue Nursery School, our vibrant Parents Association (PA) provides a link between parents and the school. Parent volunteers organize a variety of resources and activities, including a book fair for Chanukah, Family Fun Day in the Spring, year-round tzedakah projects, the Nursery School Library, and the Annual Nursery School Benefit among others.
The key to the success of the PA-sponsored projects and events is parental involvement. Whether you have one hour to give once during the school year or several hours each month, we welcome your help.
There are many ways to get involved. Please see links to our programs and events.
At the beginning of each school year, parents are chosen from each class for each of four roles: (1) the general class parent (often two parents), (2) the tzedakah class parent, (3) the benefit class parent, and (4) the library class parent.
The general class parents help to organize and communicate general class happenings. The tzedakah class parents act as liaisons to the PA Tzedakah Committee, facilitating each class’ involvement with tzedakah projects. The benefit class parents work with the Benefit Committee, helping to involve and inform all the parents in their class about the benefit and how they can get involved. The library class parents organize the library schedule for the class and make sure that all parent volunteers for the library know what is required of them.
Throughout the year several tzedakah projects and collection drives are organized by our Tzedakah Committee in order to get our children involved with tikun olam (repairing the world). These projects and drives help homebound elderly, poor children and families and the environment among other worthy causes. In addition, the Tzedakah Committee Chairs liaison with the Social Action Committee at Central Synagogue, helping to involve the nursery school with synagogue wide mitzvah days and other initiatives.
Our benefit, which includes a live and silent auction, takes place in the spring of each year. It is the school’s biggest fundraiser and social gathering of the year. We are very proud that our Benefit emphasizes community building and we always have great participation and attendance. There are various subcommittees where parents can get involved. These subcommittees organize different activities, including, helping our children create the artwork to be auctioned off during the live auction, solicitation of items for the silent auction, administrative activities such as correspondence, mailings and reminders, and organizing the benefit journal.
Our school has a lending library. Once a week, our children can check out one book to take home with them. Parent volunteers run our library, helping to organize the books and to purchase new books. Volunteering to help run our library is also a wonderful way for parents with limited time to get involved because each week parents from each classroom come to read to the class during library time.
We hold an annual book fair prior to Chanukah which serves as both a community builder and fundraiser for the school. In addition to children’s books of all kinds, the book fair has special interest books for adults as well as vendors selling toys, games, clothing, and Judaica. We typically have a guest author who reads to each class when they visit the fair. Our parent body takes charge of this event, doing everything from ordering the books to organizing outside vendors and setting up the room for the fair.
At the end of the year, parents help organize a luncheon to say thanks to all the teachers for being an inspiration and taking such good care of our children.
Our school holds a Family Fun Day each spring that includes a fun activity for our children and their families as well as an informal family dinner. Recent Family Fun Days have featured our favorite rock star Laurie Berkner and a performance by the Pushcart Players. We need people to take charge of this event each year, deciding on the activities and entertainment as well as the food and drinks.
You can be involved in helping to create personalized place mats, t-shirts and others items that each child will get to take home at the end of the year as a memory from their class of the wonderful year they had at school.
Parents assist in organizing these two days, usually in November, when each class takes a group picture and each child takes his or her individual school photo.
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