The time has come to begin planning for our Grade 9 band trip! The dates for this year’s trip are Thursday, May 14th to Friday, May 15th. Please click the button below for an overview of this year’s itinerary.

The trip will cost $200/student. This includes a $60 fundraising credit (from the fall cookie dough campaign) for every student.

A $100 deposit to confirm participation will be due on Monday, February 3rd.

Please contact Alison Peters at ampeters@edu.pe.ca if you have any questions.

The eastern area sectional day at Birchwood Intermediate for grade 9 Honours Band students will be held tomorrow (Friday) even if there is a one hour delay. Students will travel to and from Birchwood in taxi vans, and they will be back at East Wiltshire in time for regular dismissal. Students are asked to please come prepared for the day with instruments, music, lunches or money for lunch.

An emergency contact and medical information form has been shared with Honours Band students in their Honours Band Google Classroom. Please complete the form and feel free to communicate any further details directly to me at ampeters@edu.pec.ca.

Honours Band students are asked to please bring the $80 registration payments to school tomorrow (or send them by e-transfer) if they have not already been submitted. Thank you.

Honours band students are reminded that the student schedule for this weekend can be found on the PEI Intermediate Honours Band blog: http://intermediatebandteachers.wordpress.com/

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays with their friends and families!

Please find below the EWS Band schedule for the first school week of 2020:

Monday: Grade 9 early a.m. HONOURS BAND (Jazz Band is CANCELED for this week)

Tuesday: Grade 9 early a.m. Band

Wednesday: Grade 8 early a.m. Band

Thursday: Grade 9 early a.m. Band

*The Honours Band students will travel to Birchwood Intermediate for the day on Thursday for sectional rehearsals with all Honours Band students from eastern area schools. The current plan is to leave at 9:00 am and return in time for regular dismissal at 3:05 but I will confirm that with students this week when I receive the finalized schedule for the day.

Friday: Grade 7 early a.m. Band

A huge congratulations and thank you is extended to all of the students who participated in the Christmas concert on Tuesday evening. It was a wonderful evening of music, and a great demonstration of the talent and dedication of our music students.

A special thank you to the students who did MC duties during the concert. You did a great job!

Thanks to the generosity of those in attendance, we were also able to donate funds to help support families in our community during the Christmas season.

All extra-curricular band activities (with the exception of grade 9 Honours Band) are now finished until after the Christmas break.

*Due to a conflict in the morning for students who volunteer with the breakfast program, tomorrow’s grade 9 Honours Band rehearsal will be held during the lunch break.

Band students who have home instruments are reminded to take those instruments to school for the concert (the same plan as for the Bluefield concert).

Following the concert tonight, we will not have any extra-curricular early morning band rehearsals (with the exception of Honours Band) until after the Christmas break.

Thank you for all of your hard work this fall, and good luck tonight!

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Band students are reminded that they will have their final full concert band rehearsals tomorrow morning:  

Grade 9’s will have early morning band as usual

Jazz Band will rehearse during period 1 (9HF will still have band class)

Grade 8 Band will rehearse during period 3

Grade 7 Band will have a 15 minute run-through at the beginning of period 4

There will also be a sound check for jazz band students in the gym at 2:30.

The annual East Wiltshire Christmas concert will be held on Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 p.m. in the East Wiltshire gymnasium. This concert will feature the EWS Grade 7, 8, and 9 concert bands, as well as the EWS Jazz Ensemble.

Band students are asked to arrive at school in uniform by 6:30 p.m. Detailed information about the EWS band uniform can be found here on the blog (see menu above).  Students who wish to wear a Santa hat for this performance are encouraged to do so!

Upon arrival, grade 7 and 8 students will meet in the cafeteria extension until it is their turn to move to the gym for their warm-up. Grade 9’s will gather in the band room.

Admission is by voluntary donation at the door. Proceeds will be used to support families in the East Wiltshire community who are in need of some extra help during the holiday season, and to support band students who need assistance with the cost of extra-curricular band activities throughout the year.

The students have been working hard to prepare this holiday program and we look forward to seeing you at the concert on the 10th!