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Mince Pies!!!!

Don’t forget  –  if you can, please send your child to tomorrow’s rehearsal with some mince pies.  Any that are left over will go to local a retirement home.

Also …

well done to all those students who were able to perform at Booths on Saturday – they did a superb job for 6 hours. Total amount raised to be posted when I’ve counted it!!!

Christmas Festival – 16th December

Xmas letter 2013

Sorry for the additional post, but it has become clear from talking to a couple of students that letters have not been read and/or not gone home.  Attached is the letter regarding arrangements for the Christmas Festival that was given out to ALL members of the wind band, junior band and choir during the week beginning 1st December.

Music Day @ Booths

A reminder that tomorrow (Saturday) is our music day at Booths.  Instrumentalists are to wear Wind Band uniform, everyone else Christmas jumpers!

Please be ready 5 mins before the allotted time.

10am        Sax Ensemble

10.40am   Choir

11.20am   Clarinet Choir

11.50am   Flute Choir

12.20pm   Sax

1pm           Choir

1.40pm     Flutes

2.10pm     Clarinets

2.40pm      Sax

3.20pm     Choir

Notice for new students in the bands/choir

On the letter about the arrangements for the Christmas Festival that went out to Wind Band on Tuesday – and will also go to Junior Band tomorrow and Choir on Friday – I forgot to mention that Year 7 participants will still be able to go on their theatre trip: they will be dropped off at The Coro by the buses on the way back from Lancaster and join the rehearsal from that point.

Also – new members of the band will need to either buy a shirt from me (£10 each) in the music office OR borrow one from a current band member.

‘Friends’ meeting postponed

Many apologies, but I will have to postpone tomorrow evening’s ‘Friends of UVHS Meeting’ due to family ill health.  The meeting will now take place NEXT Monday (Dec 2nd) at 6.30pm in the school staffroom.

We need to discuss the Christmas Festival  –  planning the staffing of the raffle, programme sales and, hopefully, CD sales  – as well as fundraising for the Austria tour in 2016.

Friends of UVHS Music Meeting

There will be a friends meeting next Tuesday (25th) at 6.30pm in the staff-room.  All parents are welcome to attend  –  we need to find new avenues of fundraising in order to support the development of music within the school, as well as to subsidize the 2016 tour to Austria.

ALSO  –  please check all the dates on the calendar attached to this blog

Reminder / Rehearsals

A reminder that, due to the school production of ‘Oh What A Lovely War!’ next week, there will be no Swing Band rehearsal this Friday (7th Nov) and no Wind Band rehearsal on Tuesday (11th).  Tickets are still available for the show on 11th & 12th Nov from The Coro Box Office.

Tickets for the Christmas festival on Tues 16th Dec are going fast.

DON’T FORGET – Austria Tour 2014 slips & deposits are due in by next Friday