Parents are a key element in the Los Amigos School Plan. Parents are involved formally via a dynamic PTA and School Site Council, and informally through our parent partnership program. Ongoing communications using various tools, parenting education in Spanish/English and our volunteer program are the major strands of the program. Parents are welcomed and enthusiastically encouraged to be involved in their child's education. Parents and other community members are recruited by a volunteer coordinator to participate in our Help One Student To Succeed (HOSTS) Program.

A Principal's coffee is conducted for parent/parenting education each month on various topics. Our PTA provides the foundation for our Parent Partnership Program which focuses on involving parents as full partners in their child's education including volunteering at school, assisting with homework and daily home reading, providing career, hobby, and vocation expertise, and participating in the decision making process where appropriate. Our School Site council serves as a formal decision making body at the school. Teachers communicate with their parents at least once each month through a class newsletter. a school wide newsletter is published with the PTA news once each month by the Teaching-Vice-Principal. The volunteer coordinator recruits volunteers for the HOSTS mentor program and other school programs and contacts businesses and other sources in the community for volunteers and other donations of goods and services. Home communication is done in the primary language of the parents. Special effort is made to recruit non-English parents into the school. A Walk to School Breakfast will be conducted to bring those parents who walk their child to school from the adjacent neighborhood onto the school campus to get involved. Our student handbook, a Dragons' Hot Line, school marquee and flyers help to keep the community informed about special activities at school. Teachers regularly communicate with parents by phone and in writing for positive reasons as well as other purposes. An Absence Verification Hot Line is available for parents to verify their child's absence at their convenience after school hours.


PTA

The Los Amigos PTA is a local unit of the National and State PTA. All Los Amigos parents are encouraged to join. The PTA is a group of parents, teachers, and administrators working together for the best interests of all the students. The PTA is eager to have ALL the parents involved in the school in any activity they are interested in.

The Objectives of the PTA
To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship.

To raise the standards of home life.

To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth.

To bring into closer relation the home and school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth.

To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.


The Mission Statement
The mission of the California State PTA is three-fold:

To support and speak on behalf of all children and youth in the schools, in the community and before governmental agencies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children;

To assist parents in developing the skills they need to nurture their children; and

To promote parent and public involvement in schools and communities.