Camp Dates: Monday, August 22nd – Friday, August 26th, 2022
Camp Location: Colonel Gray Sr. High School              

175 Spring Park Rd Charlottetown

Parents are responsible for transportation to and from camp, carpooling is encouraged. Please note: students who arrive early are not supervised and will not be permitted to enter the building until staff open the doors at 8:55 am. Any campers who should be self-isolating or who are currently positive for COVID-19 will NOT be permitted to attend camp. If a camper develops symptoms during camp, parents will be contacted and the camper will be sent home immediately to be tested.
If your camper will be absent from camp, please email ktmaclaine@edu.pe.ca to let us know. If your camper will be no longer attending, we ask that you please inform their home school teacher asap. As the camp is planned based on current enrollment, we regret that there are no refunds should your plans have changed.

INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO CAMPER LEVEL:

BEGINNER CAMPERS (new to their band instrument, including saxophone/percussion)Your camp day begins at 9:00 am and ends at 11:30 am.Please use the main/front entrance of the school.Please bring a water bottle and a nut-free snack.Your instrument will be waiting for you at camp.A short concert, to showcase all you have learned, will be held in the Colonel Grey cafeteria on Friday, August 26th at 11 am. Family and friends are welcome to attend.

INTERMEDIATE/SENIOR CAMPERS (already have one or more years of experience on their band instrument)Your camp day begins at 9:00 am and ends at 3:00 pm.Please use the south student parking lot entrance to the school (side of school closest to Pond St.)Please bring a water bottle, a nut-free snack, and lunch. You will not be able to leave the school property to buy lunch.Bring your instrument, music will be provided at camp.A concert, to showcase all of the music you have learned, will be held in the Colonel Grey cafeteria on Friday, August 26th at 1 pm. Family and friends are welcome to attend.Additional information and contact email addresses can be found on our band camp website:

https://sites.google.com/cloud.edu.pe.ca/bandcamp/home
We look forward to making music with you at camp!

Kirsten MacLaine (she/her)
Band Camp Director, Band Director, Bluefield High School

I hope everyone is having a great summer! 

Please visit the Band Camp website for up-to-date information:

https://sites.google.com/cloud.edu.pe.ca/bandcamp/home

Instrument assignments for band camp (August 22nd-26th) are listed below. Please note that everyone was accommodated this year with their first or second instrument choice. Changes to instrument selections cannot, unfortunately, be made for band camp. I encourage students to keep an open mind, be prepared for new challenges, make new friends, and to have fun learning to play a new instrument next week! See you soon!

Grade 7 Beginners

Grade 8 and 9 Beginners

EWS Intermediate and Senior Camp

Band Camp begins on Monday, August 22nd! Instruments for beginners will be distributed at camp. Please check back here next week for a list of instrument assignments. Intermediate and senior band camp students are responsible for bringing their instruments to camp on the first day. I’m looking forward to seeing you soon!

Band camp website (general information for campers): https://sites.google.com/cloud.edu.pe.ca/bandcamp

Dates and Times: The camp will be held from Monday, August 22nd to Friday, August 26th at Colonel Gray. The schedule is:
Beginner Camp: Monday-Friday, 9:00 – 11:30 am
Intermediate/Senior Camp: Monday-Friday, 9:00 – 3:00 pm

Instrument assignments for beginners will be posted here on the EWS Band blog the week before band camp.

Please visit the band camp website for band camp dates and details: https://sites.google.com/cloud.edu.pe.ca/bandcamp

Have a great summer!

Thank you so much to all of the parents and guardians who supported students in the band program this year. It was another challenging school year, but I believe the students still made excellent progress and hopefully they enjoyed making music together through all of the ups and downs! I’m really looking forward to next year and a return to a regular band experience which will include more concerts, field trips, and provincial events.

Thanks to your generosity at the concert, we were able to make a $600 donation to the IWK foundation from the East Wiltshire bands. Thank you to Synthia MacEachern and Susan Morse for collecting the donations at the door on concert night.

If your child has registered for band camp this summer, please check this blog and the band camp website for information. All students who are switching to new instruments in the fall (saxophone, percussion, etc.) were asked to attend the beginner camp unless other arrangements have been made. I have 40 intermediate and senior students registered for the camp so they will find lots of their friends there!

The band camp registration link for EWS students can be found here. Late registrations will be accepted until tomorrow at 3:00 p.m.

EWS Band Camp Registration Form: https://forms.gle/vQq2Bbqv1kv3BUHE8

Band camp website (general information for campers): https://sites.google.com/cloud.edu.pe.ca/bandcamp

The camp will be held from Monday, August 22nd to Friday, August 26th at Colonel Gray. The schedule is:
Beginner Camp: Monday-Friday, 9:00 – 11:30 am
Intermediate/Senior Camp: Monday-Friday, 9:00 – 3:00 pm

The fee for the camp is $100.00. E-transfers are preferred (eastwiltshire@edu.pe.ca). Please include student’s NAME and REASON for payment (BAND CAMP). If paying by cheque, please make payable to East Wiltshire Intermediate. Cash and cheques must be delivered to the main office at East Wiltshire where receipts can be issued upon request. This fee MUST accompany the registration form in order for the student to be officially registered.

Have a wonderful summer, everyone!

Congratulations to Amy Morse and Steven Dennis who were the recipients of the 2022 achievement awards for band at yesterday’s awards assembly. The awards were presented “In recognition of outstanding achievement in the East Wiltshire Concert and Jazz Bands”

Both of these grade 9 students are dedicated band members who have been key players in the EWS Concert Band and the Jazz Ensemble!

Thank you grade 8’s for all of your hard work in band this year! I’m already looking forward to working with all of you again next year🎶

Grade 8 (Tomorrow, June 16th), Grade 9 (Friday, June 17th)

Pizza will be provided at the bowling alley, but students are responsible for bringing their own water bottle or beverage.

Timeline for both days:

11:30: Leave East Wiltshire

12:00-12:30:  Arrive at Murphy’s Bowling Lanes
Pizza Party, Get shoes, etc.

12:30-1:30:  Bowling

1:40: Load Busses
2:00:  Arrive at East Wiltshire

Just a reminder that extra-curricular early morning band rehearsals are finished for this year. We will continue to play during band classes, so students are asked to bring instruments and music on their usual band days!

Grade 9 band vests should be turned in by this Friday.

Band field trips (pizza and bowling in Charlottetown) will take place this week on Thursday (gr. 8) and Friday (gr. 9). Details to follow!