Dates for your Diary

• OC orientation – November 13 – Senior Strings to perform
• New student try-outs – November 27
• Carols, December 7 – all string ensembles
• Current student auditions – Week 8

Senior Strings, Tuesday November 13 – your expertise is required yet again! A reminder that you will be performing next week at the OC orientation on Tuesday November 13.

 New school app Schoolzine

Don’t forget to download the new school app Schoolzine (SZapp). Once you have registered and chosen your groups, you will then receive Newsflash directly into your device.

 Strings Program enrolment for 2019 

Thank you, Senior Strings, for performing at the Year 2 demonstration.

We have had lots of kids register online already.

New student registration for 2019

If your child is interested in the strings program after seeing the demonstration, you can register your child by going to https://portal.msmusic.com.au/artarmonmusic.

Click on the New Student Registration button and complete the registration screens, including setting up a password for the parent portal.

If you already have a child in the program and wish to add a sibling, log on to your account in the MySchoolMusic parent portal and click on the Add Student button.

Deadline for new student registration is November 16 or November 23 for Year 5 OC and current students.

Strings Try-outs, Tuesday November 27, morning: For those who expressed interest following the demonstration, there will be try-outs on all string instruments. Again, no experience is necessary. This is to see which students are suited to which instruments.

Current student re-enrolment

Re-enrolment emails have already gone out. Make sure you check your emails and get onto that as soon as you can.

Instrument return Wednesday December 12

Current students will need to return all hired instruments by Week 9 for cleaning and checking, and pick them up before the end of term. This will most likely be on Wednesday December 12. If that time doesn’t suit, you will have to make other arrangements. Please let us know in advance as that time of year does get fairly busy.

Auditions for current students, Week 8

Audition information has already gone out to all students, which includes scales and pieces required, and timeslots during the week of December 3^rd. Exact times for individual students won’t be issued until closer to the date.

If you have not received anything, let us know. Or check your email.

And have fun with the auditions – it’s a good chance to show Mr Mansukhani how well you’ve improved.

Volunteers 2019

Thank you for those who have already expressed an interest in helping out next year.

Remember that the program runs entirely with the help of parent volunteers, and volunteering is a great way to meet other parents and become involved in the musical side of the school.

Please let us know if you are interested in hearing more.

Committee Positions

Training Strings Coordinator – Lan Zhong

Junior Strings Coordinator – Karen P’ng

Concert Strings Coordinator – Ada Pan

Senior Strings Coordinator – Iris Zhang

Orchestra Coordinator – Atsuko Porman

Instruments Coordinator – Joanne Wang

Secretary and Events Coordinator – Arzoo Patel

Strings Treasurer – Rose Huang

Opera House Coordinator – Adrienne Byrne

Emma Nicholas, Strings Convenor – strings@artarmonpandc.org.au