Home and School Association

Executive Board Members of the Home and School Association 

What is the Home and School Association?
The Home and School Association is an essential part of Our Lady of Grace. We work with the administration, staff, and parents to enhance your child’s learning environment and school experience.

What are Home and School Membership Dues/Fundraisers?
The Home and School relies on each family’s membership fee of $20, at the start of each school year, to help jumpstart our efforts. The fee can be sent to the school office or  can be paid on "Back to School Night".

We also bring in money through successful fundraising efforts. 
Annual fundraisers may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Kids’ Stuff book (coupon books which are typically distributed at the start of school)
• Tuition Raffle (raffle takes place at "Back-to-School Night" - can be worth up to $1,000)
• Seasonally appropriate catalog fundraisers
• World’s Finest Chocolate Bars or Gertrude Hawk fundraisers (candy sale)

Ongoing fundraisers:

• Lucky Draw Raffle (Based on the PA lottery drawing "Evening Pick-3" ONLY. Envelopes are mailed with church envelopes. 

• Amazing programs to promote cultural awareness and diversity, musical enrichment, and fun ways to approach traditional subjects like Science & Math.
• Snacks and drinks for special events like Spirit Day, the Walk-a-thon, dances, Home and School Association meetings and during Catholic Schools Week, our popular Grandparent’s Bingo, and the Student’s Luncheon.
• Two $1,000 Catholic high school scholarships to the winners of our 8th-grade essay contest (families must be Home and School Association Members for their children to participate).
• A tuition raffle (good for one month tuition for one student)

• Installation of carpeting in the school chapel.
• School yard games painted on the new blacktop parking lot.
• Security cameras throughout the school and parking lots.
• Spelling City and IXL Learning Programs
• Reading carts
• Reading Olympics books and t-shirts
• DARE graduation t-shirts
• Gowns for 8th Grade Graduation.

• Gift cards.
• Four dollars of every membership supports our teachers in workshops that keep the faculty fully accredited in accordance with PA standards.
• Start-up money for the teachers to outfit their classrooms each September.
• Funds for “Wish List” items at the end of each school year.