Volunteer at Highland
For more than fifty years, the Highland Parent Association (PA) has invited our parents to help our student body throughout the academic year. We work to enhance parent-to-parent and school-to parent communication and foster school spirit. We act as room parents, help out at Admission open houses and athletic events, chaperone school dances, help with service projects and plan special “thank-you's" for our faculty and staff.
We make volunteering at Highland easy
There are many ways to get involved at Highland School. Time commitments can range from a few hours a year as a volunteer at some of our special events and programs to daily or weekly for those volunteers who are serving school lunches, working in the Hawks Nest, or serving as a parent buddy readers in our classrooms.
Do you have professional skills you'd like to share with our students? Consider becoming involved with our robotics teams as a "build" or "business" team mentor, being a library advocate, or helping with the coordination of our annual Highland Auction.
Learn more about the many ways you can volunteer
To volunteer for any of these programs or events, please complete the form included on this page or contact your Parent Association representative. Please click on any of the expanding boxes below to learn more about the wide range of volunteer opportunities available at Highland School. Our students and faculty thank you in advance for contributing your time to our special tradition of volunteer efforts.
We need volunteers to deliver lunches to our Pre-K to Grade 4 classrooms in our Lower School and serve lunches to Middle and Upper School students. Time commitment is approximately 11:30 am to 1pm Monday through Friday throughout the school year.
You can work in our Hawk's Nest school store locations in either the Middle School or the Upper School. Cashiers are needed Monday-Thursday, 7:45am-8:15am and Wednesday afternoons from 2:45pm-3:45pm. Hours for special evening events may also be available throughout the school year.
Help our Kindergarten to Grade 2 students become lifelong readers. This popular commitment is approximately 30-45 minutes per week.
Highland's Robotics teams help students in all of our divisions discover and develop a passion for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. We are always looking for interested “build” and "business" team mentors as well as volunteers to help with fundraising and managing build sessions.
Our Blue/Gold club members help with fundraising, run our concession stands at athletic events, and volunteer during Upper School sports events. Blue/Gold Club meetings are held once a month in the lobby of The Rice Theater in the Highland Center for the Arts.
You can help with light office duties, including projects that may be completed at home. Assist at Open Houses and other Admission events.
Volunteer to be a class captain on the Annual Fund Cabinet or help with administrative tasks. The Annual Fund is traditionally the cornerstone of giving for Highland School.
Volunteer to help with the school’s biggest fundraiser of the year. There are big and small ways to help on a variety of committees including acquisitions, raffle, decorations, database, special projects, back room, class gifts and promotions. Bring your special talents and get involved. The Highland Auction happens each year in April and is a very popular event with the Highland community.
Throughout the academic year, we host parent outreach coffees. We're always looking for volunteers to work with each school division via Grade Reps, provide support (coffee ordering and pick up and food items as needed) for parent coffees.
Count labels, bundle and mail packages to participating programs. Approximately two to three hours per month.
With the help of the art department, students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8 submit artwork to be turned into journals, sweatshirts, tote bags, pillow cases, mugs and other gift items. Volunteers are needed during the first and last weeks of October and early December to help process orders and distribute the finished products. Approximate commitment is one hour.
You can help notify classes of picture times and help with student order forms. School picture day is held in mid-September each year from 8:00am to 12:00pm.
Volunteer opportunities in the Highland Center for the Arts include ushering evening events and working our concessions stand. There are two major productions per year – a Fall play held each November and a Spring musical held in early March.
Various volunteer opportunities are available that support our libraries including shelving books and helping with library fundraisers, such as the Fall and Spring Book Fairs.
Each year, Highland students donate books each year to children in this important Fauquier County early childhood education program. The books are presented when the children visit Highland and watch a rehearsal of the Lower School Holiday Program in December. We need volunteers to help collect & wrap the books to give each child.
Help serve bagels and juice to Middle and Upper School students during the mornings of exam days at the end of each semester. Time commitment is approximately one to two hours per morning during exam week. Exams are held two times per year in mid-December and late May.
You can help with International Week activities and festivities. Held annually in late January.
Help with light clerical duties including mailings, phone calls & data entry.
Volunteer as needed to set up, work the buffet table, and clean up. Held in conjunction with Homecoming in October.
Help us coordinate the Mother/Son picnic dinner and games at Marriot Ranch in October.
Help coordinate this fun-filled evening for fathers and daughters. Held each year in mid-March.
Greet grandparents, special friends and other family members for this annual spring event. This event is held each year in late April.
Help celebrate our wonderful faculty and staff. Help is needed cooking, serving and clean up. Held each year in mid-May.
Help plan this annual spring event or be one of the volunteers on the day of the tournament. The tournament is held each year in early October.
Help as needed with orders and fulfillment of our annual gift card fundraiser program.
Help organize this fun holiday event hosted in the Upper School gym. There are also opportunities to participate as a merchant. Traditionally held in late November each year.
To learn more about volunteer opportunities at Highland School, please contact our Parent Association president Kathy Thornhill via email to
katholeena@aol.com
