CHS Choir News: Early March, 2019

We're on the last leg before spring break! Woohoo!

A couple of important news items and reminders for our choir families as we near the end of the 3rd Nine-Weeks:

LAST FUNDRAISER & FINAL TRIP PAYMENTS

We'll begin our last fundraiser on March 5. Students will be taking orders for Texas Value Cards. Many restaurants and businesses have partnered to provide the community with a collection of great deals. These cards sell for $20 and the students receive 50% profit. We will have the students take orders for the cards through spring break and have the order form turn-in immediately after spring break.

Final trip balances will be computed after this fundraiser completes and the remaining balance due for each student going on the Orlando trip will be due on April 1.

UIL CONCERT & SIGHT-READING EVALUATIONS

This event is like our STAAR test for choir. The students and directors of each choir class work toward this goal all year long. It is so important and it is judged to the highest of standards. Every musician in every group is ESSENTIAL. One of the rules is that every student must be academically eligible to be able to go and perform. This Friday is the end of the 3rd Nine-Weeks. If a student is passing all their classes at that time, they will remain academically eligible for the rest of the school year! That's a great target to hit! PLEASE, help keep your child accountable on their grades. Have them turn-in missing assignments, go in for tutoring, make every effort to get those grades up before spring break!

The dates of this evaluation are Wednesday and Thursday, April 17-18. This will be a school day trip to Midland for all students. These dates were secured, with judges and venues contracted around this time last year. We have given all students a calendar with these dates on it since the beginning of school. Please continue to hold BOTH dates until we find out which day (of the two) our groups will be scheduled to perform on. Thank you for your help with honoring this important evaluation/performance and keeping those dates clear for your student to honor their commitment to the group.

If you would be interested in going to hear the groups perform and serving as an adult chaperone on that trip, please send me an email before spring break.

STATE UIL SOLO CONTEST (TSSEC)

It's already time for us to enter students who qualified for State UIL Solo Contest back in February. The contest is an overnight trip to Austin, June 2-3. I plan on entering every student who qualified based upon the results from the Regional UIL Solo Contest. If your student qualified for this event but is unable to attend, I need to know immediately. Once we have finalized entries, we are committing the school to a sizable financial expense. My goal is finalize entries by Friday, March 8.

We will be needing adult chaperones for this competition. Please send Mr. Gilmore an email if you would like to attend and serve as a chaperone. Please make sure to let me know before Friday, March 8.