The Susan Gray School and Friends of Susan Gray School want to reward volunteers and practicum students by featuring a few. As you read their comments, you will see that volunteering is full of rewards. Volunteers make a difference in children learning because it means each child receives more individual attention.
Volunteers make a difference for our teachers and staff.
In the classrooms, volunteers play with children, help with feeding and individual needs at mealtimes, pat backs at naptime, read stories, sing songs, or on the playground push children on swings. Some volunteers help on weekends with projects like painting, or provide child care during events for parents. The School always has a place for volunteers with computer skills who can search for disability information on the Internet for our families and teachers. Volunteers come to us from community service classes and sororities and fraternities at Vanderbilt, from other colleges and high schools, the Jr. League of Nashville, and parents or other family members. While we often have over 200 volunteers over the course of a semester, each one is needed and valued.