A thriving school community requires a meaningful commitment on the part of every family. After a few years off, St. Columba School has again defined that commitment as at least 20 hours of service by each family. This is something that each family has agreed to during the student registration process. We are grateful that many of our families give of their time in a very generous way to enhance our school community. We could not function smoothly without the support of our school families!
In order to make the service hour commitment more tangible and to help our planning for events and activities, we will track the service commitments of each family through our service hour form which will be emailed out as well as posted on our school website. We will also include a link for the form when we announce new service hour needs. Attached is a list of some of the service opportunities we have defined. This list encompasses more than 2,500 hours of service opportunities. While it is not all inclusive, we hope that this will be a starting place for you to determine where you would like to be involved.
Please use the service hour google form below as a way to both track your hours and sign up for upcoming opportunities. For example, you can mark hours for the book fair now, and then when it comes time to sign up we will reach out to those that have marked it down first to offer them time slots. You can also wait and sign up to help with an event like book fair separately and record your hours after they are completed. An approval process will happen for all hours that have been completed.
We know that several families have already completed hours with the fun fest, field trips, and more. Please go ahead and log all of those hours now. Our community is especially blessed for your efforts! We ask each family to track at least 20 hours, and we know many of our families give much more time than that. While we would be thrilled if families would track all of their hours beyond 20 so that we would have a clear understanding of the magnitude of shared time, we recognize that tracking everything you do might become a burden. So please feel free to log hours beyond 20 at your own discretion. You likely have noticed that the service hour fee is charged up front and has been added to your Blackbaud account according to the tuition payment plan you selected. The $250 will be credited back to your account once the full 20 hours are completed.
Thank you for taking the time to log your family’s service commitments for this school year. Serving one another and our community is a foundational tenet of our Christian beliefs. Through your gift of time, you are helping us to cultivate an environment of service at St. Columba, as we live out our faith as a community of God.
If you have any questions, feel free to call the school office (970)247-5527.