March Booster Meeting

Here are some topics we covered last night at the March Band Parent Booster Meeting.

A Marie Callender's pie fundraiser will begin on Monday, March 11th. A large portion of funds from each pie sold goes to the band, so this could be an amazing fundraiser for us! Click on this picture of Marie Callender's featured pie for March, Luscious Lemon Cake Pie, to be directed to their website to check out the entire pie menu. (Please note that some pies and cheesecakes will be excluded from this offer.)

March 27th is the Sequoia Open House. Once again we will be doing a pizza dinner fundraiser. Dinner will be served beginning at 5:00pm, it will include a pizza slice, salad, drink and cookie for $5.00. A Sign-Up Genius will go out soon for volunteers to help set-up, serve, take money and clean up, as well as for food donations such as salad dressing. Jazz Band will be playing during Open House in the 8th grade commons.

April 18th is our Spring Concert, which will be at 6:30pm. Students need to be in the band room by 6:00pm. The line up will be Jazz Band - Beginning Band - Intermission - Intermediate Band - Advanced Band. We will be working towards having a variety of raffle baskets, with each band section responsible for a particular theme, and items for the baskets will be due by April 12th.

May 9th has been chosen as the date for an 8th grade field trip. All 8th graders will have the opportunity to see the Shasta High School performance of Phantom of the Opera at the David Marr Theater. The cost per seat is approximately $15, and students with money in their account can use those funds towards the ticket cost. We will purchase tickets as a group so that we are all seated in the same area of the theater. We may need a few chaperones for this event, which will be on a first-come basis, meaning that the first parents to pay for a ticket will be able to chaperone this event. Please note that there are no matinee performances available for this musical, so this is on a Thursday evening, and your students will need to have their own transportation to and from the event.

Band Cowboy uniforms will be worn for ALL upcoming parades. The school will provide to each student a straw hat, yellow bandana and printed t-shirt. These will be checked out to each student at the Red Bluff Parade and will be the responsibility of each student until the end of the school year. Each student and parent will be given a letter to sign that outlines the policies regarding their responsibility for the uniform. The students are required to complete the uniform with their own jeans (no holes), black socks, and marching shoes.

The first of our spring parades is on Saturday, April 20th in Red Bluff. If the cost is appropriate, we will be taking a school bus from Sequoia to Red Bluff for this parade.

If you have any conflict with this or any other upcoming parade date you must notify Mrs. Wiseman right away!