Music Monday – May 4th, 2015

Music Monday 2015  ~  Together. Music Makes us One.

The Ecole Poirier Music Monday Choir members are looking forward to heading into Sooke on May 4th at 1pm.  We will be singing with over 150 other choir members from all four elementary schools in front of Evergreen Centre.  Bus driver extraordinaire and CBC Searchlight competition finalist Gord Phillips will be joining us!  The choirs will then do a singing circuit around town, sharing their music at Village Foods, Shoppers, Home Hardware TD Bank, the Stick, the Reading Room, and Western Foods.  We meet back at the map kiosk in front of Evergreen for juice and cookies provided by the Sooke Lions.

Due to the short turn-around between the end of the Festival rehearsals and the start of the Music Monday choir group, our permission forms went out late.  PLEASE, have your child bring their permission form to school on Monday!  There is a copy below.

Thanks to the parents who have offered to help out.  The weather looks like it will be favourable this year!

Mme Arts

École Poirier Choir

                                                                                                                                                        April 27^th, 2015

Dear Parents/Guardians of Choir Students,

On Monday, May 4^th, the Poirier Choir will be taking a special trip to Evergreen Centre in Sooke to celebrate Music Monday, a Canada-wide initiative which aims to raise awareness of the importance of Music in our schools.  We will be sharing our singing with the community at several locations.  We will walk into town after lunch at approximately 12:40 pm, sing en masse with over 150 students from all four elementary schools in Sooke near the Evergreen Mall map kiosk, and then complete a circuit of singing around town.  The Sooke Lions are once again providing juice and cookies afterwards, and we will travel by school bus back to Poirier in time for dismissal.

We will require parent helpers for this event.  If you are available to assist, please let us know by indicating on the permission form below.  Please return all permission to school by Thursday, April 30th.

ALL choir students who are participating must be prepared on Monday May 4^th with appropriate clothing and footwear for the walk into Sooke, and for the possibility of rain.  If the weather is too wet, we may be forced to cancel the outing.

We are thrilled to have the Sooke Philharmonic String Quartet join us at Poirier for our morning Music Monday assembly!  Parents are welcome to attend.  We are also delighted to have bus driver and musician Gord Phillips, who is currently in round 3 of voting in the CBC Searchlight competition, join us for the massed numbers at Evergreen Centre.  This year’s Music Monday promises to be the best yet!

Mme Arts and Mme Robertson                                                                             http://www.musicmonday.ca

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Music Monday 2015 Choir Field Trip Permission

I give permission for my child, ______________________________________ to participate in a walk from Poirier to Evergreen Centre in Sooke, returning by school bus, on Monday afternoon, May 4^th, 2015.

I am able to accompany the choir on this outing.  YES  /  NO  (Parent name: _____________________________)

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