About the School-Within-School at Peabody

Parent Involvement

SWS Parent Organization
SWS holds parent meetings on a monthly basis. All SWS parents are asked to join one of three parent committees. The three committees support the work of children and teachers in the school. The committees are:

• Communication
  • Compile and publish quarterly newsletter
  • Support and organize parent and teacher workshops
  • Coordinate community outreach
  • Support and maintain SWS website
  • Coordinate with PTA representatives to assist with Open House
• Environment/Projects
  • Develop indoor and outdoor spaces to support children's learning
  • Organize school/community projects to improve school environment
  • Provide support for children's projects
  • Organize school projects
• Social Events
  • Organize school, community celebrations
  • Organize annual silent auction and other fundraisers

Volunteering in the Classroom
Parents are encouraged and expected to volunteer time in their child's classroom. There are many ways to be involved in the life of the classroom including: fieldtrips, organizing materials, reading to children, helping with special projects, gardening, coordinating classroom celebrations.

Capitol Hill Cluster School PTA and LSRT
Although SWS is a teacher-directed, autonomous school it works in collaboration with the Capitol Hill Cluster School through its membership in the CHCS PTA and Local School Restructuring Team and is a feeder school for Watkins Elementary School and Stuart Hobson Middle School. SWS parents are encouraged to become members of the CHCS PTA and to actively participate in the activities of the PTA and LSRT. CHCS PTA membership dues are $10.00