Volunteer Guidelines and Needs

        Volunteering at Rankin is a wonderful thing that you can do for your children, yourself, and your community. Volunteers are needed for many different weekly and periodic opportunities including assisting with Multicultural Festival, Book Fair, activity partners, proctoring, classroom and grade level representatives, reading and lunch buddies, and tutoring to name a few.

        GCS requires that all volunteers who come in contact with students complete a Volunteer Services Application (even if you are not a PTA member). Application forms can be found online at the school system's website under Connect with GCS.

The application takes a few minutes to complete and is valid for up to three schools.  

Please contact the Parent Volunteer Coordinator, Crystal Black at blackc@gcsnc.com, if you would like more information on donating your time at Rankin Elementary.

 List of Volunteer Options....

    Hospitality – Helps organize back-to-school teacher breakfast, teacher holiday luncheons, teacher appreciation luncheon or breakfast, duty free lunch, volunteer brunch, Grandparents day, school dances, and other events related to greeting PTA members and staff. 

    Membership--registering families and staff for PTA membership  

    Lunch Buddy Program-pairs a caring adult with an elementary student who needs a positive role model in his/her life. Adult volunteers commit to having lunch with a student or small group of students. After lunch, there is time to read a book or just talk. The one-on-one relationship that develops between lunch buddies often makes a profound difference in a child’s life.

     Kindergarten Open house – Helps organize an open house event for in-coming kindergarteners and parents.

     Kindergarten Registration – This is held after the beginning of the year. Volunteers are needed to help register kindergarteners for the following school year, child care, signing up parents for up coming PTA, and serving of light refreshments.

     Book Fair – Held in late fall and in the spring for a week. The volunteers for this would assist the media center specialist with selling and monitoring the students as they make purchases. 

     Grade Parents – A parent helps plan and coordinate volunteers for learning experiences held 4 or 5 times a year.  These may include fall, winter, Valentine's Day and Spring Holiday celebrations, as well as an End of Year celebrations or Picnic. They can also help make phone calls for additional volunteers for participation during events such as Fall and Spring Carnivals.

     Health & Safety and Career Fair – Helps with the organization of these one day events. May include handing out information, helping with set up and/or clean up. Helping public volunteers with their displays or finding their correct locations.

     Cultural Arts (Multicultural and Evening of the Arts) Events – In the Fall and Spring the cultural arts programs are held for the entire school to expand communities awareness of the cultures and fine arts that are available with in the school. 

     Historian – This person will help take pictures of Rankin activities and events throughout the year. The pictures will be added to a scrapbook and web-page.  This person would need to have a memory stick so the pictures can be downloaded.