Student Volunteer Recognition Program
Service Dates: April 1, 2025- March 30, 2026
Award Eligibility
Elementary School (K-5th grade)
Bronze Level: 10-19 hours
Silver: 20-49 hours
Gold: 50+ hours
Who is eligible?
Vineyard Ranch PTA will certify service hours for the awards for any student enrolled at Vineyard Ranch Elementary. Parents/guardians of VR students, who are members of the PTA, are also eligible for service awards (information for parents/guardian awards is forthcoming).
For Students
To be eligible, your student must have ALL hours logged into skyward by March 30, 2025 at midnight. You are welcome to turn in your hours early, but late submissions will not be accepted.
For Parents
While we are working on the specifics for a parent/guardian service award, please continue to track your service hours, For school-related activities where you receive a Raptor badge your hours will be automatically tracked. For school-related activities done on your own time (e.g., PTA, teacher assistance at home), you may log those hours in Raptor (information below). For service activities unrelated to school, please keep track on your own. We will share how to submit those hours in the Spring.
What are some examples of service hours?
In order for student volunteer hours to count, the service hours must be performed outside of the regular school hours.
Below is a list of examples. This is not an inclusive list.
- Student jobs at VR outside of regular school hours (announcements, patrol, maintaining the garden)
- Trash cleanup
- Fundraising for non-profit programs such as Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, athletic activities etc.
- Drives – such as clothes, coats, food, books etc.. Students can count travel time, and time it took to pick out the item. Also, students can count the time it took to organize and deliver goods to the organization if they are helping with that portion.
- Fostering Animals – Students who volunteer with a Foster Animal can count 2 hours a day Monday through Friday during the school year and can record up to 5 hours a day during weekends and summers for fostering.
- Sorting food at a food pantry
Recording Student Volunteer Hours
Students are able to record volunteer hours through the District Website. All students are able to log in through the student portal. Parents are able to log in to the system to help their students record hours through the parent portal if needed.
Instructions for Logging Student Volunteer Hours Through Skyward
- Login into Skyward at www.skyward.neisd.net
- Click on the colored globe tab “Volunteer”.
- From there, it will take you to the NEISD portal volunteer screen. (If you have not yet linked Skyward to the NEISD portal you will be prompted to do that first. Thereafter, it will bring you to that screen.)
- A screen will pop up for you to enter the volunteer information.
- Entering more than one day of hours at a time for activities such as tutoring, pick a day of the week to log hours, and put the total amount of hours for the week. Then, in the description, put the activity from the beginning date to the end date.
Recording Adult /Parent Volunteer Hours
All adult volunteers can log their hours in NESID’s Raptor Technologies security software that they use on their campuses. You may log any off-campus hours or hours before or after school through this site.
Getting Started With Raptor Account
Click here to access Adult Volunteer Raptor Portal.
Once you have clicked on the link, click Forgot Password, and enter your email address associated with your account, this will allow you to set up your portal account.
If you are unable to create an account using the instructions above, please contact the Volunteer Program at 210-407-0309 or e-mail the Volunteer Processing Clerk.
How To Log Adult/Parent Volunteer Hours In Raptor
- Once you have an account, log volunteer hours done away from your school by choosing your school and click “Go.”
- Then click on the “log hours” button to enter your hours with the date, start time, and end time.
*PLEASE NOTE: These hours are for all hours volunteered outside of school hours and NOT on campus. You still MUST sign in at the front office to volunteer on campus during school hours.
Questions
If you have any questions or service hour suggestions, please contact communityoutreach@vineyardranchpta.org.
