Good evening everyone! I apologize for my absence over the weekend. I was at home with COVID. I’m pleased to let everyone know that I am all good to go this week. However, I was sad to miss the students performance this weekend. After last weekends performance, now begins the push to our WGI Regional which is less than a month away. There are a lot of good things to come for these students. Please see below this weeks update. If you have any questions, please let me know.
- Tuesday-Rehearsal from 6pm-9pm @MHS
- Thursday-Rehearsal from 6pm-9pm @MHS.
- Saturday-Rehearsal from 10am-3pm @MHS
- Booster Payment-If you have any missing booster payments, please turn those in ASAP.
- WGI Schedule-The draft schedule for the WGI Regional went live last week. Attached is the current performance schedule. It is subject to change, but it does allow you to get a general idea of what the performance time will look like for the students.
- WGI Payment #2-The final WGI payment will be due no later than February 29th. It will be $160. However, please note: this amount WILL NOT include 3 meals. The performance venue is a cashless venue this year. Therefore, we took $45 dollars off of the total price/student. For lunch on Saturday/Sunday and dinner on Sunday, students will need another form of payment. This can be a debt card, or if you child does not have a debt card, we suggest a Visa gift card. For these trips, we typically budget $15/meal. After much discussion, the determined that the easiest way to do this was for students to bring their own cashless form of payment.
- Jacket/Shirts-If there are any outstanding jacket payments, please submit those ASAP. Also, if you ordered extra shirts(students received one shirt with their booster fees) and did not pay for those, please do so ASAP. They were list in the committment form as $15/shirt.
- Middle School Performance-We have officially confirmed our middle school performance date. This middle school performance is scheduled for Thursday March 21st. Students typically arrive at the middle school at 7:00am to unload the truck and prepare for performances beginning at 7:50am. At the conclusion of these performances, we will load the truck, and students will go to their class in the middle school or back to the high school(a bus will be provided for those students needing a ride back to the high school). This is a wonderful recruiting tool for marching band, winterguard, and indoor drumline. More information will be sent out regarding this in the coming weeks. In the next couple of weeks, students from the high school will receive field trip forms to fill out for this event.
- March 9th-Saturday March 9th has officially been changed to a rehearsal schedule of 1pm-9pm. This is the weekend prior to our regional, so we want to provide the students with a full Saturday rehearsal to prepare. Please make sure this changed is noted.
- Baldwin Show-On March 23rd, indoor percussion has a TRWEA Show at Baldwin HS. If you are looking to chaperone for percussion, please know that there is an error on the signup program. It has chaperones for winterguard listed twice. We will fix this error to ensure we can have indoor drumline parent sign up to chaperone.
- Musical-As we are coming up on the musical very quickly, I just want to throw out a quick reminder. Students who are participating in the musical should do their best to balance both ensembles and try and split time as best they can. Understand that the staff very much appreciates their time committment to both programs, however, we still have to ensure the success of the percussion ensemble moving forward. It will be those students responsibilties to make sure they make up anything that the miss during those rehearsals. Staff will be more than willing to assist in any way possible.
- March 2nd(Musical Day)-There will be a brief rehearsal on Saturday March 2nd from 9am-11am at the HS. Originally, it was listed on the calendar for 10am-3pm It has since been updated.
Have a great week!
-Dave