VOLUNTEER
"Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something!”
The PTO can always use more help and volunteers.  Let us know if you are available to help out with something new, or some of our regular events, or if you are willing to be called upon as needed. If interested in volunteering please contact Michel Nelson, PTO Volunteer Coordinator. 
FIRST - All Volunteers need to complete the OLYMPIA school district's volunteer application process. ​Click here to get started on the OSD volunteer application.


Be Your Student's Classroom Parent Representative!!

    SECOND - Fill out McKenny's Volunteer Interest Form RIGHT HERE!!
Each classroom has a Parent Representative who communicates information between PTO and parents in the respective class;
  • greets new parents/families to McKenny at the Welcome Back/Ice Cream Social, Curriculum Night and New Parent Coffee;
  • helps coordinate volunteers for field trips or other classroom and PTO events;
  • helps with staff/teacher appreciation activities including staff/teacher appreciation survey;
  • decorates classroom door during the Read-a-Thon month helps with creating carnival game sign;
  • helps gather items for a classroom raffle/auction basket;
  • helps gather parent volunteers for the classroom carnival game assignment.
  • a year-long opportunity.
Box Tops for Education: 2-3 volunteers needed to assist Chair with pick-ups, decorating the bulletin board and holding contests. Great for moms with little ones at home. This is a year-long opportunity.
Movie Night: 6-12 or more volunteers needed to assist with  3-4 Movie Nights on select Friday evenings after school for help with set up, clean up, tickets, concessions and crowd control.  Volunteers receive a free ticket(s) for the next Movie Night.  This is a year-long opportunity.
Hawk Wear: 2-3 volunteers needed to assist with Hawk Wear sales, flyer distribution, payment collection, placing orders and delivering Hawk Wear. Hawk Wear is sold during the Back to School season, Fall Social, and Carnival.
Social Media (Facebook, PTO Website): 1-2 volunteers to assist Chairs with updating and maintaining these sites with current and accurate information as well as helping to increase users/visitors to the sites.
PTO Bulletin Board: 1-2 volunteers to assist Chair with maintaining an up to date, inviting, engaging bulletin board outside the front office with current PTO events.
Spirit Leader: 2-3 volunteers to wear Spirit mascot costume during school wide events (Reading Night, Fund Run, Carnival, Fall Social, etc) for brief periods of time.
Welcome Back/Ice Cream Social: 6+ volunteers needed to assist Chair with set up of tables, decorations/signs, pre-scooping ice-cream, serving, and clean-up/take down.
First Days/Parent Coffee: As many PTO Board Members, Committee Chairs and Class Parent Reps are asked to attend to meet and greet new and old parents/families.  Volunteers help with set up, organizing light refreshments, answering questions, passing out PTO membership, volunteer and other related forms
PTO Directory/Membership Sales: 1-2 volunteers to assist Chair with soliciting for PTO Membership, collecting Membership forms and payment, entering data into program for creation of direction, correcting/verifying contact information as needed, and printing/distributing directory.
Staff Appreciation:  Committee volunteers help plan a special week for staff at the beginning of the school year and each week during the month of May with a different food/beverage theme each week, including decorations.
Fun Run: 15-20 volunteers needed throughout the day to assist with managing students, tallying laps, making distributing awards/certificates, filling out lap/mile cards, distributing and pinning bibs, leading stretches, regulating snacks/water, managing sound system, and more. The week after the event, volunteers are also appreciated to help collect and count funds turned in.
Fall Social: This event is a free event for the McKenny community and families to attend on a Friday evening.  15-20 volunteers are needed for marketing/flyer distribution, set up, decorations, receiving and selling bake sale items, selling Hawk Wear and other related trinkets,  clean-up and take down, and more.
Value Village Fundraisers:6+ volunteers to attend 2 hour shifts at Lacey Value Village to accept donations from McKenny families and community members that want their donations to benefit McKenny.  Depending on interest, volunteers may also collect large items the evening before or morning before the event at McKenny for transport via volunteers to Value Village.
Read-a-thon:  6+ volunteers to assist Chair with marketing for the event in advance, collating, preparing and distributing reading logs and pledge envelopes, coordinating with teachers and librarian event theme and Library Night, securing prizes for individual participation, individual goal achievement and school wide goal achievement, counting minutes and participation, distributing prizes weekly and after the event, collecting pledge envelopes and counting donations, and more.
Pacific Science Center on Wheels: 3-4 volunteers to assist Chair with set up of exhibits, managing classrooms as they come through exhibits, and clean up after the event. PSC gives all volunteers some sort of coupon for free or discounted admission to the science center!
PTO Olympia Junior Prog. Parent Rep. & Ushers: Several volunteers to assist Chair with selecting two programs for 1st-5th grades to attend during the year, distributing flyers, collecting payment, and serving as Ushers during performances held off school grounds at the Washington Center for Performing Arts.
Apple Tree/Theatre Production: 6+ volunteers to assist Chairs with managing this month long, after school theatrical production to include marketing in advance, collection of payment, ticket sales for performances, audio/sound system operation, refreshments and more.
Spring Carnival: 20+ volunteers to assist Chair in marketing the event in advance, distributing flyers, selecting games related to theme, securing sufficient prizes, coordinating bake sale, bingo and silent auction community donations, coordinating with Class Parent Reps for auction/raffle basket creation as well as class game volunteers and classroom game sign creation, securing food/beverages, setting up and running sound system, set up and clean-up the day before, day of and after the event, selling tickets, distributing pre-sale tickets and collecting funds at the event, and Hawk Wear sales. 
Dine for Cash: Families dine at the location and the school earns a percentage of the evening’s proceeds.  One (1) volunteer needed to help Chairperson distribute fliers and attend event.
School Beautification: Unlimited number of volunteers to gather a few times a year to help with landscaping, weeding, planting and general maintenance of the grounds (not mowing or painting).