Wichita Collegiate School offers five auxiliary parent organizations that provide avenues for parental involvement. Booster Club, the Collegiate Association of Parents (CAP), Friends of the Library, the Initiative for Science Engineering and Excellence (ISEE), and Patrons of the Arts actively engage the energies and interests of parents.

The Booster Club consists of WCS parents and friends who are committed to supporting the many extracurricular activities offered at WCS as well as many projects around and outside of the school that promise to enhance our children’s growth and improve the school community. The Booster Club Board meets monthly to consider funding requests and discuss upcoming activities. Our income comes from membership dues, activity program ads, concession stand sales, and Shirt Shack sales (in partnership with CAP). This money funds many different activities/groups around campus. Here are a few examples:

Signing up for a shift in the concession stand during an athletic event is a fun way to meet other parents.  A sign-up sheet, and more information about Booster Club may be found on the  WCS Edline Community Connection!

Collegiate Association of Parents (C.A.P.) exists to provide support and services for faculty, students and parents. Any friend of Collegiate is welcome to join and
attend monthly meetings. The organization assists the school with events for all of the school divisions, and sponsors fundraising events throughout the year.  These fundraisers include Wrap Pacs (pre-packaged school supplies),CAP Cuisines, the Wrap It Up Poinsettia Sale and Gift Market, Garden Market, and Final Survival Packages. CAP also publishes and sells detailed school calendars and planners that are pre-printed with the school year 's activities and events, and sponsors Shirt Shack with Booster Club. Proceeds from all CAP projects fund the faculty's Wish List of items to enhance classroom instruction.

For more information, please visit the CAP site on the WCS Edline Community Connection.

No monthly meetings! No membership dues!

Friends of the Library is a volunteer organization of moms and dads dedicated
to assisting our three campus libraries. There are various ways in which to give
of your time and talents: shelve books, help create craft projects, lend a hand
with special events such as Book Fairs and Young Authors Conference, just
to name a few. Volunteers may choose to chair an event, coordinate refreshments, or simply straighten bookshelves.

Sign up to help during you child’s library time or just drop by at your convenience. There’s always something to do!

For more information, visit the Friends of the Library site on the WCS Edline Community Connection.

Ooey, Gooey Science -- Exploring Space -- Building Robots --  and Trash …
These are just some of the things that ISEE loves best.

The Initiative for Science and Engineering Excellence  (ISEE) is the perfect organization for Collegiate parents interested in nurturing the study of science. We know that science is an exciting, ever-changing subject. Science affects all of our lives every day.

Collegiate’s science teachers in all grade levels make science come alive for our students. They pride themselves on providing hands-on experimentation that puts the student in the driver’s seat. These experiments and opportunities require many resources, including training, materials, equipment, and a time and place to perform them.

ISEE is dedicated to helping the science departments obtain all of these needed resources. We help send science teachers to conferences and workshops, providing professional development and training. We help purchase materials and equipment needed in the science curriculum. We help provide support for expanding classrooms. Last year, a new chemistry classroom was added to the Upper School. This year, the Lower School will be operating from a remodeled classroom space. ISEE has helped both these classrooms with purchases of equipment needed to make the most of the science experience.

ISEE also helps with the out-of-classroom activities. We coordinate dinners for the Robotics team. We help provide snacks for the Science Olympiad teams during after school practice and at competitions throughout the year.

How do we provide this help? Your membership investment and trash bags sales provided more than $16,000 last year. We plan to do more this year to further the science experience at Collegiate.

Trash bags are going to be easier than ever to purchase this year. We have a new ISEE Bag Hotline – 771-2058 – you can call anytime you need bags. We also provide delivery for a nominal fee. Every bag you use is money in the WCS science bank. Your child, no matter what the division, will benefit from your trash bag purchase.

Where do you fit in? There are many ways to help with science. First, please join us. We meet the first Tuesday of every other month at 4 pm in the Lower School science room. (Check the school calendar for specific dates.) We are also seeking volunteers for small commitments. And most important, give us your trash. We’d love to supply trash bags for your home, your office, your club, anyone, anyplace.

Do you have a budding chemist making goo in your kitchen sink? Does your child sit out under the stars and dream of going into space? Does your family have a collection of pets because all animals are fascinating? Is someone in your house always building something? Then you have someone interested in science. Please let us help you foster that interest. 

For more information, click here to visit ISEE's site on the WCS Edline Community Connection.

WCS is a unique environment which combines academic excellence with a variety of outstanding enhancement and extra-curricular options, including many choices in the Fine Arts. Patrons of the Arts is a parent volunteer organization focused on providing the extras, in the form of time and money, to our creative Fine Arts faculty.

Click here to for more information about Patrons of the Arts on the WCS Edline Community Connection.