The school has always been glad to accept the offer of help from parents in a wide variety of settings.  This can involve one-off events from acting as a parent chaperone on school trips to assisting at the Track and Field Meet. 



Parents often helped out in their children's classrooms especially in the primary years.  However, for a period of time during the 1980s, the school benefited from a large, organized, parent volunteer program involving a significant number of volunteers working directly with children.  Not all of these volunteers were parents of children at the school, they were people who responded to a general appeal that was made in the community.  So extensive was the program and so invaluable did these helpers become, that we actually operated a supply system so, if a volunteer called in the morning to say they couldn't come in, someone phoned another person off the list to step in.  During the year a number of volunteer appreciation socials were held to thank them for their work.  By the 1990s this program had been discontinued but there were still parent volunteers working throughout the school, although in a much more informal way.  One area that this happened was in the library where Mr. Shepitka had a team of helpers who came in to assist with the clerical work needed to maintain and update the library.  When a computerized library system was introduced, a number of volunteers came on a regular schedule to enter the library's catalogue into the system.