Dear Families,
The St. Patrick’s School Parent Participation program is a cornerstone of our school community. As this program plays such an important role in our school and community, we have decided to take steps to help make the process easier for everyone involved, for parents, the Education Committee, and school staff alike.

New Portal System
We will be moving to a new online software system (OnVolunteers) to make it easy for parents to participate in the program. The new system automates and simplifies the sign up for hours and tracking process. There is no fee for parents to use this system.
Each family will have their own unique password-protected website, aka ‘Parent Portal’. From within your own portal, you will be able to:

• Easily view and quickly sign up for available tasks.
• Automatically track the tasks you have signed up for or have been assigned. You do not have to manually submit service hours for tasks completed (the software tracks it for you).
• Know your real-time service hours total (pending or verified), any time.
• Receive/send messages from and to the Education Committee regarding service-related matters, all from within your Parent portal.

You can log in to your portal at the following url: http://SPS.MR.onvolunteers.com
Username is: The primary email the family uses with the school
Default Password: Celtics1
We will use this portal to sign up for parent-teacher conferences and other student events. Please ensure you know how to access your parent portal, even if you are not participating in the parent participation program.

St. Patrick’s School
22589-121 Ave, Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 3T5
604-467-1571 (O) 604-467-2686 (F)
www.stpatsschool.org

The first time you log in, you will see a ‘Start Guide’ screen, this has 4 short videos which will familiarize you with your portal. We recommend you watch at least the 1st video, the Introduction video. This video will show you how to personalize your pass-word (which we strongly recommend you do, for security
purposes).
Your Parent portal is very easy to use, you do not need any technical knowledge to use it. Along with the Start Guide, there are other videos in the ‘How-To’ area, link on the up-per right inside your portal.
Please read through the updated Parent Handbook as there have been changes to the Parent Participation section: https://www.stpatsschool.org/parents/parent-handbook/
If you have any questions about our new parent participation process, please feel free to contact us at: [email protected]

Yours In Christ,
Mrs. Maria Fonseca