Volunteering: Offering your Time and Talent
The Shambhala School is infinitely enriched by the commitment of our families who offer time and talent to the school. Not only does volunteer activity reduce costs and fees and allow us to offer bursaries to some families, but this co-creation of the school community by parents exemplifies the kind of generous and warm society we want our children to be part of and is a way for parents to feel part of the community as well.
Volunteer Commitment
As a way to help us all be intentional about our contribution, and to help the school track the level of volunteerism it can count on, we ask each family to commit to a minimum of 30 hours of work each school year. Purchases that are requested by the school can also count toward your family commitment. eg, if you offer to buy $40 of snack food for a school trip, your contribution counts as 2 hours of work towards your 30 hour annual commitment. (each $20 donation of requested food or materials purchased = 1 hour of work).
Donations to our Food Bank campaigns or other fundraisers are not counted towards the 30 hour commitment.
**Please track you volunteer hours by clicking here to use this quick, easy form!**
Thank you for your time, talent and friendship to this school community.
Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
Thank you for thinking about how you’d like to get involved in the school community. Sharing your skills, or your time, adds tremendous value to the collective student experience, and provides you with the opportunity to get to know fellow parents, faculty, and students.
Tell us how you would like to get involved
Here is a link to a quick survey to help match your skills/interests to our needs. Please follow the link and complete the form at your earliest convenience.
Keep an eye out for upcoming volunteer opportunities
Read the Friday News to keep an eye on volunteer opportunities and watch your email for additional opportunities shared by Reception or your class parents to support outdoor education, field trips, classroom support and events.
Ongoing Volunteer opportunities
- Classroom support for special activities and outings
- Gardening and improvements to our outdoor space
- Building maintenance and improvements
- Assistance with after school clubs
- Fundraising and Marketing support
Winter Events
- Winter Music Performance (December)
- Elementary Winter Festival (January)
- Drives for Grade 9 to 11 trip
- Food for Grade 12 Outdoor Education Trip
Spring Events
- High School Drama Performance support
- Elementary Spring festival (May)
- Middle School Shakespeare Performance
- Music Performance (June)
- Food and Drives for Outdoor Education trips