Our Mission
The Parent Association facilitates, encourages and ensures ongoing community-building by providing activities, events, and service to the parish and school community. The Parent Association is a vehicle for supporting communication between home and school, offering a mechanism for education and serving as a structure for political action when needed. This will be accomplished in accordance with the policies of the Archdiocese of Seattle and the goals of this parish, in collaboration with the Pastor and Principal.
All parents/guardians of students attending St. John School are members of the Parent Association and are welcome to join meetings.
Parent Association Grade-Level Roles
Below are brief descriptions of the grade-level roles. We welcome each grade’s team to determine what works best in support of your grade. For more detailed information on each role, check out the Resources page.
We are thankful to be blessed with so many people willing to share their talents. We would love to have you as part of the team! Sign up for a Grade-Level PA Role here.
Room Parent: Acts as teacher liaison, handles parent communications, and coordinates any teacher/classroom needs and opportunities for involvement.
Parent Association (PA) Reps: Supports as many school-wide and grade-level events as possible, encourages others to volunteer in support of school and parish events, attends monthly PA meetings, and organizes grade-level socials.
Hospitality Chairs: Oversees gift-giving for teachers/assistants and school staff throughout the year, coordinates grade-level voluntary contributions, and manages gifting budget.
Auction Liaison: Serves as main point of contact for class auction information, coordinates class Auction Package, and manages the class Auction Art Project or appoints an Art Lead to design/create a class Art Project.
Your ’23-’24 PA Team Leads
| PA Co-Chairs: Rachael Groark and Maile Sullivan |
| Communication Lead: Stephanie Glassburn |
| Hospitality Lead: Chris Sourov |
| Events Lead: Madeline Pennington |
| Volunteer Lead: Amy Vithayathil |
| Welcome Committee Co-Chairs: Julia Tsurusaki and Kirsten Evangelista |
| Auction Chair: Lauren Exnicios |
Questions? Contact Parent_Association@st-johnschool.org