Highland Band Boosters

March 2018 Newsletter Mattress Fundraiser Our Mattress fundraiser is this weekend!!  Have you shared the event on Facebook ?  Invited your friends and family?  Remember, your child earns money for each sale they refer!  We would like a couple parents to hang out at the fundraiser in 2 hour shifts to represent the band.  We will deposit $5 for each shift you volunteer for into your student's account. Click this link to sign-up: http://signup.com/go/fEiTggp Concert Supervision We're still looking for a couple of parents to help out at the concert on March 22.  This is a simple job of ensuring kids stay silent during performances and making sure they move to/from the stage at the correct times.  You will get to see your child perform! Click this link to sign-up: http://signup.com/go/wfAjJcW Booster Board Nominations Next Month! Have you wanted to have a voice as to events, fundraiser and general band things?  Now is your chance! ...

February 2018 Newsletter Congrats to all of our students who performed at ISSMA Solo & Ensemble!  Everyone did a great job!  We'd like to give a special shout out to our HS Students who performed Group 1 and received a gold rating!  These five students are headed to the state competition in Indianapolis on February 24, 2018. Congrats to Logan Juran, Sierra Laviolette, Samantha Colbert, Jude Salanio and Phil Bock!!  Good Luck at state! Spring Craft & Vendor Fair This show is coming up soon and will be a huge fundraiser for the band!  We've already got 95 crafters and vendors signed up!  We had to open the aux gym in the middle school and will be full!  This is a one day only fair, Saturday March 10th.  There are a couple of places we could use your help. 1. Sign up to work the event.  We need parent help on both Friday during set-up and Saturday during the fair and to take things down.  We're using SignUp for this event....

  January 2018 Newsletter Welcome to the new year!  We're hoping this to be a successful year for the Highland Bands! Thank You! Thank you to everyone who came out and bowled with us on our family bowling night!  It was a great success and we heard nothing but good things! We also want to thank everyone who came out and supported us at our "Fundraise Your Heart Out" dining out fundraiser at MOD Pizza! Lastly, thank you to all who helped chaperone at the concert.  Mr Blocker received compliments on how well our kids were behaving! Upcoming Dates At our January Booster Meeting we went over the plans for the rest of the school year.  We have a couple of dates which are not set in stone yet, namely a couple more dining out fundraisers and the century resources fundraiser.  Below is a list of the dates for you to mark on your calendar.  Also, we are looking to sent up a FansRaise fundraiser for you to raise funds to pay any band fees wi...

November 2017 Newsletter November is the time to be thankful!  The Boosters would like to send out a bunch of THANK YOUS to everyone!  Your help with the craft show this year helped to make it one of the best in years!  We had so many people tell us how well it was run and how helpful everyone was.  That all would have been impossible without the generous donations of basket raffles, bake sale donations, soda donations and most importantly your time! We had 71 booths filled with 70 crafters!  The crowd was so large on Saturday we had many of our crafters & vendors tell us that they had record sales on that one day!  We also ran out of taco meat on Saturday!  Both on Saturday and Sunday we had a parent run to the store to pick up popcorn supplies and a few other things needed for concessions!  Everyone we spoke with had nothing but praise for how the show was run, the help that was given by all the kids and how nice everyone they ...

  October 2017 Newsletter Welcome to October!  What an exciting time our kids have had so far!  Our Marching Trojan Pride has had a wonderful season! Their last marching performance is this Friday at the football game. If you've not had a chance to see this year's show Oceana, come on out and support our marchers.  The concert bands are busy getting ready for our first concert! Fall Concert Our fall concert is next week already!  October 19th at 6:30pm!  The children should report at 6 to the band room for warm-ups.  The band kids have been spending the last few weeks preparing to show off the skills they've learned so far this year.  We are still in need of a couple of 6th grade and High School Parents who can sit with the kids while Mr. Blocker is directing. This will help us ensure that the children are sitting where they should with proper attention to the band currently playing on stage.  If you can help out, please let ...

September 2017 Newsletter SmartMusic   As our students are getting their iPads, now is the time for renewing SmartMusic!  SmartMusic is $8 per student.  All 6-12th grade band students will use SmartMusic on their iPads for assessment both in class and at home for the 2017-2018 school year.  If your student is in 6th grade and paid their summer camp and book fees before August, SmartMusic was already included.  Everyone else can send in $8 cash or check (payable to Highland Band Boosters) with their student to be given to Mr. Blocker.   Concert Our first concert is fast approaching, October 19th!  The band kids look forward to showing you everything they have learned so far!  We are asking for 2 parent volunteers from each grade to help with student control while Mr. Blocker is directing.  If you can help, please let Mr. Blocker or the Boosters know.   ALL Band Bowling Night   Mark your calendars!  On November 21st,...

Below is our itinerary for the week!  Please note, we have a home game on Friday that was not originally scheduled for home.  No after school practice on Friday, come prepared for the game at 5pm!    For the KV contest: We feed the kids bandwhiches, chips, fruit and dessert.  The boosters provide the bandwhiches, we need a couple families volunteer to bring individual servings of chips, fruit and dessert! Also, bottles of water are always needed for home games and contest days!  Please email the Boosters and let us know what you can bring!   Football Friday/KV HS Saturday Week 1 Itinerary   Tuesday : Sectionals Wednesday : Full Ensemble on Practice Field Thursday : NO REHEARSAL (as originally scheduled) Friday : Game (not on original schedule)  5pm call time - dressed in compression  - parent note - NO food in uniform, no beverages except water.  Students will have 3rd quarter to get their concessions NOT in ...