Becoming a Class Rep is a great opportunity to meet other parents, to get to know your child’s teacher, and to help enhance our school community.
Dorothy Lynas Class Reps play a key role in assisting the PAC to communicate information to the rest of the class to help enhance our school.
How do I get involved?
Ask your child’s teacher if she/he still needs a class rep, and volunteer to take on this role if it’s still available! Once you have confirmed with your classroom teacher please let your PAC team know who you are! General responsibilities include:
Coordinate fun and social stuff for your class – recruit other parents to help!
- Get to know the other class parents and act as a link to the PAC where needed.
- Facilitate connections among parents in your class by circulating an approved class list with contact information that each parent has agreed to share with the other parents.
PAC communications and coordination:
- Act as a liaison between the Parent Advisory Council (PAC) and your class parents.
- Share information on behalf of the PAC to inform and remind your class of upcoming PAC events and initiatives at Dorothy Lynas.
- Organize or delegate assisting with class activities or other PAC-related fundraising initiatives needing input or contributions from each class.
- Organize holiday and end of year gifts for your teacher (completely optional).
Teachers are responsible for
- Communicating information that all parents need to know – encourage teachers to send out their own emails to the class, rather than distributing and receiving replies through you. Easier and faster for everyone!
- Planning field trips, including the collection of money and making the driving list for the office
- Maintaining class websitesA NOTE about Email communication
- Blind copy (i.e. Bcc) recipients when sending emails to the whole class, to protect privacy – this is standard email etiquette.
- Out of respect and privacy, emails should only go to caregivers based on an authorized class list which has been collected and provided by the PAC Executive. Class reps are not responsible for gathering emails and creating their own list (though many do).
- Emails should only consist of content specifically relevant to the life of the class. This includes content provided by either the PAC Executive or the Classroom Teacher.
Class Rep Time Commitment:
- A few hours per month
- Varies at busy times
Ideally, the Class Rep is a good communicator with basic technology skills. With the support of school administrators and the PAC executive, Class Reps should have a good understanding of the policies and ethics of confidentiality, including:
- Knowledge of School District 44’s Code of Conduct for parents
- Signing the School District Confidentiality Declaration as per board policy 611
- Awareness of Konstella App
Have you signed up to be a class rep? If so please visit the committees page in Konstella and sign up so we know who you are!