The Friday Night Schedule – Spring Term 2017 was issued last week. It describes what each group will be doing in each of the sessions and the timings of the breaks, which have been reduced from 30 to 20 minutes. It also notes that the deadline for the return of Parental Consent forms for the March concert is Friday 24th February.

Welcome to a new year of Music School – especially to new members. A newsletter was issued yesterday. Click the link to view.

Earlier this month, a letter was handed out to all students asking for new volunteers. If you can and are interested in volunteering please speak to any of our tuck shop, committee members or West Suffolk Music Centre staff for further information or email tuckshopbse@gmail.com. Alternatively, please fill in the online form, and we will be in touch.

This weekend, students were given a newsletter with information about the coming term’s Music School activities and other practical information. You can see a copy of it here – WSYM Newsletter October 2016.

You are invited to join us for tea or coffee and biscuits at our Annual General Meeting in the library at County Upper School. Hear all about what we have been up to in 2015/16 and our plans for the coming year. Have your say in what we do to support our children’s musical activities and bring them new opportunities. The meeting will start at 10:30, but tea and coffee will be available beforehand.

• Agenda of Annual General Meeting 15th October 2016.

The Friends’ Committee

From last week onwards, the timings of the rehearsals on Friday nights have been changed to have two equal sessions of 1 hour – from 5:15 to 6:15 and from 6:45 to 7:45. If you are a Friday night tuckshop volunteer then please note the break is now 1/4 hour earlier.

If you want to make any comments about the tuckshop or music school activities or a looking to buy/sell music or musical instruments, remember we have a Forums section for registered members. (Click Here to register).

If you are looking for a cello, you might like to know one of our members has a Cello for Sale.

The new school year will begin shortly. Draft tuckshop rotas have been published here (password required) and the Calendar and Coming Events updated. If you are expecting to be on the rota and haven’t had an email, please let me know… email John. As always, with people moving on at the end of the school year, we are in need of a few more volunteers to ensure we can continue to run the tuckshop on a Friday evening and Saturday morning every week. If you would like to join us please contact us via the Tuckshop Volunteer Form.

This term’s BCMS Newsletter was issued to members yesterday. It contains details of what’s happening this term and a reminder of practical arrangements. You can also find out what’s happening from our Coming Events page.

On Saturday 7th May we are planning on sorting out the stock of music – we have to weed out items that are not usable (e.g. have parts missing) and organise it better. All volunteers to help with this are welcome. While we are at it if anyone would like to buy some of it, we will be taking donations at our pop-up shop. To see some of the items we have, visit our Music and Instruments for sale forum.