Volunteer or Donate

Get involved! Downes has many opportunities for you to volunteer your time and talent or to donate supplies and other contributions.

Help a Struggling Child Learn to Read

Reading ASSIST® Institute's mission is to improve the literacy skills of children at risk for reading failure. As part of this mission we train volunteers in a structured, multisensory reading intervention program. Volunteers then work in an elementary school on a team to provide this specific intervention to struggling readers. Learn more.

Monetary Donations

To make an online donation in support of the events and activities at Downes, please click here.

PBS (Positive Behavior Support)

Mr. Luke could use 2 or 3 volunteers to assist the faithful volunteers that are already helping with this. If anyone is interested and would be available any week day between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., please contact Mr. Luke at lukaszewiczm@christina.k12.de.us.

You might have items to donate. Downes students earn coupons for their hard work and good behavior in school, and are given a weekly opportunity to "buy" small prizes with their coupons. Do you have items like * small toys * books * novelty items * action figures * small games * puzzles*? Please bring them to the office, and label them "for PBS." For more information, or to ask if your items fit the description, contact Mrs. Schwartz (454-213, ext. 121 or schwartzd@christina.k12.de.us.

Nurse's Office

The Nurse's Office is in need of girls' & boys' items: coats, sweat pants, underwear (new). Questions? Contact Mrs. Laudorn, School Nurse (454-213, ext. 123 or laudornc@christina.k12.de.us.

Support the Brands Who Support Downes PTA

Register for eScrip and earn money for Downes by using your grocery cards and existing credit/ debit cards. It's easy, free, and powerful! Visit escrip.com to learn more.

Downes is now registered to receive free money for Tyson labels! Please send all collected labels in a baggie labeled Tyson Project A+. In your grocer's freezer section, look for Tyson Products that display the Project A+™ logo. The label you save is easily identified by looking for the simple 1, 2, 3 program steps. Each label is worth 24¢ cash!

Please keep collecting Box Tops and Labels for Education. Send them in sets of 25, trimmed and bagged (or enveloped), with your child's full name and room number. The Labels for Education UPC bar codes are on Campbell’s soups and gravies, Pepperidge Farm products (including Goldfish), Spaghettios, and Franco American gravies. Lids are from V8 and Prego products.

John R. Downes PTA can earn 10% of your purchase amounts on thousands of products (product list coming soon). A special thanks to these companies for sponsoring $200,000 in additional contributions to the top 200 earning groups: Kraft, General Mills, Unilever, Frito-Lay.

PTA

Interested in helping with PTA projects and programs? Contact Debbie Christie (christie_debbie@yahoo.com) or Courtney Cleghorn (courtneycleghorn@verizon.net). Or call our PTA phone line and tell us what you are thinking. The PTA phone line is a voice mailbox, so please leave a message with your thoughts or ideas, and a PTA Board Member will respond (454-2133, ext. 498).

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