Adult Volunteer Services

Contact: Susan Olson: 440-995-7796

Residents are Welcome to Become Involved with our Schools

Mayfield City Schools welcomes local residents and businesses, including our senior adults, to share their time and skills in becoming a part of Mayfield Schools. We promote this collaboration because it contributes to the health of our community while enriching the educational experiences of our students. We strive to match your interests and expectations with the needs of the school. Some volunteer positions require a weekly commitment to provide consistency in the school environment, while other positions last only as long as the project requires. If you have a special background, skill, or interest, we may be able to customize a volunteer position especially for you. New volunteers are first required to meet with the Adult Volunteer Coordinator. Please consider contacting us to hear more about our volunteer program.

Here are some of the available volunteer opportunities...

Classroom and Office Positions:

• Clerical positions in offices and libraries on a weekly or as-needed basis
• Remedial and enrichment tutors in English, reading, math and science
• Teacher helpers in preschool and elementary classrooms
• Tutors to help foreign-born elementary students improve their English skills

Science Olympiad Coaches:

• Coaches are needed to instruct small groups of elementary, middle and high school students to prepare for the Science Olympiad regional competition in subject areas including airplanes, amphibians and reptiles, astronomy, bridges, bugs, catapults, chemistry, circuits, computations, diseases, ecology, food chemistry, forensics, genetics, health science, metrics, physics, robots, rocks and minerals, weather, and more. Weekly sessions typically begin in November and end in February.

Basic Aid Training Instructors:

• Individuals with a health or medical background are needed to teach the American Red Cross “Together We Prepare/Basic Aid Training” program to 4 th graders. Training and instructor materials are provided. This program is taught once a week in the spring for approximately 6 weeks. Each weekly lesson lasts approximately forty-five minutes.

CPR Instructors:

• Individuals certified in CPR instruction are needed to assist 10 th graders with learning CPR. Help is needed during several days in December and then again in May.

Art Docent Program:

• Individuals with an interest in art are needed to teach basic art appreciation to Kindergarten thru 3 rd graders. Training and instructor materials are provided. Each docent is assigned one classroom and presents a monthly lesson during the months of January thru May, for a total of 5 lessons. Each monthly lesson lasts approximately forty-five minutes.

History Docent Program:

• Individuals in their 60's, 70's or 80's with a recollection of interesting facts related to their school days, including the school building, classroom, supplies and books, teachers, classmates, transportation, etc., are being sought to help collect information for our new historical program to be taught to 5 th graders.

Home Economic Helpers:

• Individuals with hand-sewing skills are needed to provide one-on-one assistance to middle school students who are learning to sew for the first time. Assistance is also needed with preparing and organizing class supplies.

Foreign Language Tutors:

• Tutors are needed to help our high school English-speaking students improve their skills in Spanish, Italian, German and French.

Science Fair Judges:

• Judges are needed for the high school science fair held in January.

Special Olympics Volleyball Coach:

• A volleyball coach is needed for our Special Olympics volleyball team. The season is March thru the first week of May. Practices are held on Saturday mornings, 9:30 – 11:00 A.M. at Millridge Elementary School . The regional tournament is held the first week of May.

Local Business Opportunities:

• Businesses are needed to host and motivate middle school students in math and science, possibly in the form of a tour and sharing with professionals in these fields.

• Businesses are needed to host Career Shadow days for high school sophomores and juniors.

Sewers:

• Individuals with machine and/or hand-sewing skills are welcome to join the ABC Quilters, a group of senior adult women who meet weekly with 5 th graders from Center Elementary School to design and sew small quilts that are donated to local charities. The quilts are sewn by machine using straight stitching. Sewers may come to the Mayfield Village Community Center during program time with the students, or may choose to have the unfinished quilts delivered to their homes to sew at their own convenience. The ABC Quilters also accept donations of 100% cotton fabric to be used for the quilts.

After-School Club Leaders:

• Individuals are needed to lead a small group of 6 th and 7 th graders in starting an after-school club in any of the following areas of interest: baseball card collecting, chess, board games, stamp collecting, and square/contra dancing. Please let us know if you have another interest that would lend itself as an after-school activity.

Speakers' Bureau:

• Occasionally we are asked to find a speaker in a particular topic area to address a class that is studying that subject. Please let us know if we may add your name to our Speakers' Bureau list.

Enrolling Your Child

Residency Requirements

Mayfield Board policy (1309.00) states: Parent(s) or Legal Guardian(s) of all students admitted to the Mayfield Schools must be currently residing in the Mayfield City School District . Legal guardianship or, in the case of separation or divorce, legal custody must be determined by a court before a student will be admitted to the Mayfield Schools.

Therefore, if you do not reside (eat, sleep, vote, etc.) within the Mayfield School District and/or are not the natural, adoptive, custodial or legal guardian of a student attending the Mayfield School, you may be prosecuted by the Mayfield Board of Education to regain tuition.

Student Registration

Elementary & Middle School students (Grades K-7 ) should be registered at the school they will be attending. Registration for elementary and Middle School students is scheduled in mid-August. If you need to register your child after August, call the school secretary.

High School students (Grades 8-12 ) may register by appointment.
Gr. 8-9 contact Mrs. Hosack/440. 995.6910
Gr. 10 (last names A-Z), Gr. 11-12 contact Mrs. Shoda/ 440.995-6814
*You must call to schedule an appointment for registration.

When you enroll your child , you will need to bring the following items:

1. Completed forms from the registration packet which are available at the Board of Education Building, 1101 S.O.M. Center Road, Mayfield Heights or by calling (440) 995.6800

2. Social Security Card (a copy will be made and returned immediately)

3. Original Birth Certificate (a copy will be made and returned immediately)

4. Proof of residency (lease/purchase agreement, gas bill, electric bill, sewer/water bill). We will not accept a phone bill, driver's license, lease/purchase application

5. Immunization records (see below)

6. Custody papers (in the case of separation or divorce)

7. High School only – last report card (unless official transcript has been received).

Medical Requirements for School Entrance

In compliance with the Ohio Revised Code, students will not be permitted to attend school unless all immunization requirements are met. The following immunizations must be given:

1. Four (4) DPT (Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) Vaccines - one must be given after the fourth birthday. If not, a 5 th dose is required for Kindergarten students.

2. Three (3) Polio Vaccines--one must be given after the fourth birthday. If not, a 4 th dose is required for Kindergarten students.

3. Two (2) MMRs (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) for all students KG-12. There must be at least one month between the 2 doses.

4. Three (3) Hepatitis B vaccines for grades KG-7.

5. One (1) Varicella (chicken pox) vaccine for Kindergarteners in the 2006-07 school year. This is a progressive law, meaning it will be required for K and 1 st grade in the 2007-08 school year and keep moving up one grade each school year.

6. A Tuberculin Test is required for most students who are from foreign countries and new to the Mayfield Schools. A Tuberculin Test result should be on file for  all students.

7. Preschool admission requires age-appropriate immunizations, including HIB vaccines, a current Tuberculin Test and a yearly physical exam.

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Mayfield Business Education Community Alliance Foundation

The Mayfield Business Education Community Alliance Foundation was established in May 1996 to enhance and extend the educational and economic development opportunities through a collaboration of citizens, community, school and local business representatives within the Mayfield City School District.

The Alliance is funded through the proceeds of its annual 18 ForEducation Golf Outing which has raised over $100,000 during the past six years. Donations from area companies also are earmarked for specific projects such as Rockwell Automation's signature sponsorship of the annual Science & Technology Showcase.

Proceeds from the Alliance directly benefit Mayfield City Schools students and staff through the annual Grants to Teachers program which promotes creative extensions of the Mayfield Schools' curriculum.

Other programs supported by the Alliance include the Art Festival at Hillcrest Hospital , Science & Technology Showcase at Landerhaven and the Fall Family Festival at the Gates Mills Horticulture Center.

The Alliance 's latest endeavor will be to host the first, annual Groundhog Day Forecast Breakfast at Landerhaven on Feb. 2, 2007. More than 400 guests of school, community, local government and business representatives are expected to attend this lighthearted forecast meeting to learn more about the community, schools and businesses in Mayfield Heights , Mayfield Village , Highland Heights and Gates Mills.

Community involvement is further evidenced by citizen membership on various Board and District committees which include, among others, finance and curriculum advisement.

Alliance trustees meet quarterly for breakfast meetings. Subcommittees meet monthly.

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