Home and School Association
The Home & School Association (HSA) is an integral part of the success of Holy Cross School. The HSA provides assistance to the school in many areas and helps support it through fundraising efforts and volunteerism.
The Home & School Association is a parent organization that has two key pillars, fundraising and community building. As such, our parent volunteers are an integral part of the Holy Cross family and culture, and each parent volunteer is essential to the school’s current and future success.
We meet on the 2nd Monday of each month via Zoom to discuss upcoming Home and School events.
Home & School Association Officers
- Elizabeth Formas & Laura Tyson – Home & School Co-Presidents
- OPEN POSITION – Home & School Vice President
- OPEN POSITION – Home & School Treasurer
- Mary-Margaret Reid – Secretary
Community Events & Fundraising
AUGUST-DECEMBER
- Broadway Gardens Mum Fundraiser
- Halloween Chili Cook-off & Trunk or Treat
- Christmas Fair
- Lobster Lunch
- Broadway Gardens Wreath Sale
JANUARY-JUNE
- Catholic Schools Week
- Read-A-Thon
- Spring Auction
- Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week
- Art Show
Passive Fundraising
- Box Tops for Education – Box tops for Education is now an App on your phone!
- Download the App
- Select Holy Cross School, South Portland, ME
- Scan your receipts and you’re done! Scan button is on the bottom middle, blue button. No more clipping box tops and handing them in!
- You have 14 days from the date on the receipt to submit/scan your receipts in order for them to be counted.
- Mabel’s Labels is a great website that you can order custom labels for your child’s clothes, water bottles, lunch containers, sports bags, etc…
- Holy Cross School has partnered with Mabel’s Labels where for every order Holy Cross will receive 20%. I recently just ordered labels for both my kids, and as an example my order was $56 total, which means Holy Cross earned $11.20! It’s super easy to do, just following the instructions below:
- Website: Mabel’s Labels: Kids Labels, Name Stickers & Clothing Labels (mabelslabels.com)
- Click on SUPPORT A FUNDRAISER
- Type in Holy Cross School (South Portland)
- Start Shopping and earning $$$ for the School!
Volunteering
- As a small school community, Holy Cross School relies on parent volunteers in many ways. In conjunction with our dedicated teachers and staff, parents are a much-needed resource both in and out of the classroom. Holy Cross School’s goal is to keep tuition affordable. To help with this, each family is asked to provide a minimum of 20 hours of service to the school per year.
- Holy Cross School offers a variety of ways for parents to get involved. Committing to be a parent volunteer will give you an opportunity to become better acquainted with your child’s classmates, parents, and the Holy Cross faculty and staff. We hope that you will be able to take part in one or more of the many exciting events that we are offering this coming year and experience firsthand the pride you will feel in supporting Holy Cross School.
- As parents ourselves, we understand the demands of daily life, and we welcome and appreciate any amount of time each family can give to the school, big or small. Every hour adds up, and the results can be amazing.
- Each person who volunteers inside the school needs to have completed Protecting God’s Children. Please see below for more information on this.