Dear band parents,
Here is some important information as we go into our last week of band for this school year:
Yes, you need your instrument this week
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1. Yes, we are playing music in band this week. We will have electives almost every day this week, so please make sure your child brings their instrument to school. Clarinets and Saxophones, please make sure you have a good reed to play on (please ask your kids about this today).
Renting your instrument with Hills over the summer
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2. If you are renting your instrument from Hills Music Shoppe and you will be in the band next year (at Hawley or in high school), then you do not need to return it to them over the summer. If you return your instrument, you will lose all of the $$ equity you built this year with your payments. You want to keep your instrument to keep your equity, and so you can play your instrument over the summer (talent: use it or lose it!). I have plenty of fun stuff to practice on my website, and I will keep looking for more.
No more emails, please sign up for Remind texts
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3. I will not be using email to send out my weekly "this week in band" information anymore, because more and more often it is being blocked as spam. I don't know what Google changed in its spam detection to cause this problem, but I know I can't fix it. I will instead use the Remind text message system exclusively. You can download the Remind app to get all the features it offers, but you do not need to. All you need for basic communication is a phone with text messaging.
Sign up by sending a text message to phone number 81010. The text message should be...
@HAWLEYBA18 for 5th graders going into 6th grade
@HAWLEYBA17 for 6th graders going into 7th grade
@HAWLEYBA16 for 7th graders going into 8th grade