John Champe High School Band

John Champe High School Band Boosters Association

1 week ago

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John Champe High School Band Boosters Association

3 weeks ago

Welcome to another exciting season of Marching Band. Here are a few items of interest before the kids start Band Camp this week.

We really need parent volunteers to make this another successful year. As the band grows, so does the need for volunteers. We will have 166 marchers on the field - about 20 more than last year. That means 20 more instruments, 20 more uniforms, 20 more plumes, 20 more water bottles, and 20 more mouths to feed. That adds up to more parent volunteers!

The first Band Boosters Meeting will be held Tuesday Aug. 8 at 7 pm in the band room. Please come and meet other parents, learn more about the marching season and what you can do to help.

Reminder - Band Camp times this week:
New Marchers – Tuesday & Wednesday 9am – 4pm
Full Band – Thursday* & Friday 12:30pm – 8:30pm
*New marchers uniform fitting – 10am - 12pm on Thursday (before band camp)

Immediate volunteer opportunities:

Uniform measurement (Sign up on Charms now!)
Our uniform coordinators, Kelly Mills and Cindy Rhodes, need lots of help with measuring, fitting, and hemming 144 marching uniforms. No experience necessary! (Well - you have to be able to read a ruler.) The more volunteers the faster it will go!
Wednesday Aug 2nd - 3:45pm – 6pm (after band camp)
Thursday Aug 3rd - 9:45am – 12noon (before band camp)
Monday Aug 7th - 3:45pm – 6pm (during band camp)
Tuesday Aug 8th - 9:45am – 12noon (during band camp)
These opportunities are during the day and scheduled around band camp. Don’t worry there will be more evening opportunities to help with uniforms.
Contact Cindy (cindy@cindyrhodes.org) or Kelly (kellymills1055@gmail.com) for more details or to volunteer.

Field Show Prop Construction
There are a few props that the directors have envisioned for this year’s field show and we need some handy parents to help make them a reality. Contact Mr. Phillip (Jonathan.Phillip@lcps.org) if you are interested in helping.

Tag Day – Saturday, September 16
This is our largest fundraiser of the year. For those that don’t know about this – kids go door to door of our local neighborhoods asking for donations. In addition to parent drivers, we are looking for one or two organized people to be the coordinators of this effort. We have the routes and history from previous years to get you up and running. Contact Sally Coffey (sacoffey@gmail.com) if you have questions or are interested in helping out.

That’s all for now. Join us on Tuesday evening August 8th at 7pm in the band room to find out more!

Join our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/JohnChampeBandBoosters

How to volunteer:
Contact the coordinator for each activity
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Specific event signups are in Charms, as needed.
Go to www.charmsoffice.com/charms/login.asp
Scroll down to the Parent/Student/Members. Enter our school code ChampeHSBand.
On the next screen click the Volunteers button to see a list of volunteer opportunities.
Sign up. (Right now the only opportunity listed is for Uniform Measurements!)

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