Tomorrow is going to be a whirlwind of a day! The students have all had band rehearsals today (except 9A and I visited their classroom to update them), and this schedule has been reviewed carefully with each group. For reference, here is what is happening minute by minute 🙂

*If there are any band parents or guardians who might be willing to help chaperone/supervise the students while they are at UPEI, or to help us to return larger instruments to the school at 2:15 pm, please contact me today at ampeters@edu.pe.ca. Thank you!

Thursday, April 11th: Grade 9 early am band is canceled.

GRADE 8 SCHEDULE

8:30 am: Grade 8 band students to meet (in UNIFORM with their INSTRUMENTS and BAND MUSIC) at the new Performing Arts building (Directions to the UPEI Performing Arts Centre: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Waa8GYdKBW5hSNFw8)

8:45 am:  Grade 8 Band Students: Set up instruments at UPEI

9:00 am-9:30 am: Warm-up off stage

9:30 am-10:00 am: Grade 8 Band adjudicated Band Days performance

Following their adjudicated performance, students will listen to school bands in the theatre

11:30 am: Load bus at UPEI, Grade 8’s  to return to East Wiltshire in time for lunch and afternoon classes

GRADE 9 SCHEDULE

Grade 9’s Students will attend the Bluefield musical in the morning (9:30-11:30) and will travel directly to UPEI following the performance.

8:45 am: Mrs. Heather Campbell will ask grade 9 band students who play instruments that will not fit on the bus to load them in her truck (Tubas, Baritones, Tenor Saxes, Trombones, Bass Clarinets)

Grade 9 Band students will take their smaller INSTRUMENTS, BAND MUSIC, and LUNCHES on the band bus to BLUEFIELD. *Students will need to WEAR UNIFORMS (vests can be put on after the musical) as they will not have time to change before heading to UPEI.

9:30-11:30 am:  Grade 9 students will attend the Bluefield musical performance and sit together

11:30 am:  Band students will take the first bus leaving  Bluefield

11:45-12:00 pm:  Grade 9 Students arrive at EWS from Bluefield and will switch buses to head to UPEI in uniform.  LUNCH TO BE EATEN ON THE WAY 

12:15 pm:  Grade 9 Students arrive at UPEI and set up instruments

12:30 pm-1:00 pm:  Grade 9 Band warms up offstage

1:00 pm- 1:30 pm:  Grade 9 Band adjudicated Band Days performance

2:15 pm:  A bus has been booked to transport Grade 9 students back to EWS in time for regular dismissal. Mrs. Campbell will transport the large grade 8 and 9 instruments back to EWS. If necessary, Mrs. Peters will do additional trips to get everything (piano, amp, instruments) moved

Thank you, and I hope to see some of you tomorrow at UPEI for some great performances!