OUTSTANDING first week of school and debut at our home opener on Friday night! We received many compliments from fans and our administration. Dr. Albertus complimented the excitement displayed by the band in the stands and said that the show looked as good as we typically do during the middle of the season. Your extraordinary efforts were recognized and appreciated!

A video of our performance was linked to the students’ Google Classroom. The link is unlisted because we try and keep our performances off of social media until we are finished competing. We, of course, want to share our performances with our students and their families, but thank you for your help not sharing these links publicly until after our final competition on October 4.

Thank you so much to our volunteers who fed the students before the game, assisted with water bottles, moved equipment, got the flag ready, purchased and sold concessions, and helped us reset for another week. It was so great to see many parent volunteers working together for our students. Thank you for your participation and generosity. If you couldn’t make it last week, you have another chance this Friday!

This Week at a Glance • CHS School Announcements
8/18- 8/22

• Monday: Full Band 3:45PM – 6:15PM
  • Winds and Battery will be released at 5:00PM • Dr. Carr and Mr. Nelson have a meeting in Dallas at 7:00PM
• Tuesday: Full Band 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• Wednesday: Jazz Hang 3:30PM – 5:00PM
• Thursday: Full Band 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
  • Parents, come out to watch the final 30 minutes of practice. You can watch the progress from the 50 yard line!
• Friday: Home vs. Columbia HS • Dinner at 5:00PM • Volunteer Here
  • Don’t forget to visit the Band Shoppe to get your Trojan Band gear before the game!

Week of (8/25- 8/29) Preview

• Monday: Full Band 3:45PM – 6:15PM
• Tuesday: Full Band 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• Wednesday: Jazz Hang 3:30PM – 5:00PM
• Thursday: Full Band 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
  • Parents, come out to watch the final 30 minutes of practice. You can watch the progress from the 50 yard line!
• Friday: Away vs. Rome HS • Load at 3:30PM • Volunteer Here

DHB Etudes are available!

GMEA has posted the District Honor Band etudes on their website: https://www.gmea.org/asb-information

New for this year, students will still have to perform their scales in the correct order, at the correct tempo, with the correct articulation, but they can perform them while reading the scales. The scales no longer have to be memorized for the audition. Students will be provided a clean scale sheet to read from at auditions.

DHB auditions are on December 13, 2025, at East Paulding HS. Sign-ups will take place very soon via Google Classroom. First round auditions (District Honor Band) cost $10 and second round (All-State Band) cost $25. To audition for All-State, you must qualify during the 1st round, but you have to decide before auditioning if you are auditioning for just district honor band or also for All-State. If you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Carr at christopher.carr@carrolltoncityschools.net.

Colleges often look at DHB and All-State participation when considering meeting with potential students for scholarship consideration. Ultimately, it is your preparation for the college audition that earns a scholarship, but preparation for DHB and All-State each year is a great way to practice preparing for a scholarship audition in the future.

CutTime instead of Remind

Due to the Remind App no longer supporting SMS capabilities, we will be using CutTime to send just-in-time information throughout the season. Information such as updated ETAs, website reminders, etc., will be sent out via CutTime from now on. Additionally, CutTime will send out automatic statement reminders to families on the first of each month for any outstanding band fees. Thank you for your patience with this throughout the summer. Ms. Dothard has been recovering from knee surgery, and reconciling the information from RevTrak is manual, not automatic. We will continue to work through it to get caught up. If you notice anything incorrect on your account, thank you for contacting us and for having the patience to work through it with us. We want it to be correct.

Summer Health Class – Should be finished by now

All coursework is due by the end of this week! We tried to urge students to finish it by the end of last week, because we knew that this week would be really difficult to find time to work on Edgenuity or eADAP because we have camp from 8:00AM – 9:00PM. Unfortunately, I do not have access to the Edgenuity controls. But, as long as you can still log in, you can finish your work in Edgenuity for full credit! Since the deadline is quickly approaching, you are on borrowed time and could lose access any day. Fingers crossed you’ll still have access the 2 weeks before school starts? If so, get your work DONE! Juggling a 5th class can be difficult, especially with our after-school schedule. Finish a module right now.

We are traveling to Universal Studios! Sign Up Today

Yes, you can still sign up for the trip, but you have to adjust your payments so that you get caught up by January. You can access the inforamtion to sign-up for the trip at https://chstrojanband.com/26-bandtrip/ • Sign up using the links to the Super Holiday Tours website.

Chocolate Bar Fundraiser

We started a chocolate bar fundraiser on July 28. Students have the opportunity to sell boxes of chocolate to receive $25 towards their band fees or trip to Universal. Mr. Nichols is also providing extra incentives for the students. The student who sells the most boxes with at least 10 boxes sold will win a Ninetendo Switch Light. If we sell all of the boxes of chocolate, then he provide a pizza party for our students. The first 20 students who sell 2 boxes will receive a blanket, and the top 3 sellers will receive a free lunch from Chick-fil-a with the opportunity to ride in a Cybertruck to lunch.

Sponsorship Drive • We need your help

We need your help securing sponsors for our Trojan Band. Students will earn 10% of any sponsorship that they secure to use towards band fees or the Universal Trip. Sponsors have helped provide meals for away games and competitions, they help us maintain our fleet of vehicles so that we can transport equipment to football games and competitions, they help us purchase materials for props for half-time productions, and their generosity in addition to our fundraising efforts helps us keep our band fees affordable for our families.

Sponsors can receive advertising at our Legacy of Champions Competition and other thank-you gifts from our Booster Club for their support. For more information, please contact Heather Warren. We must be strategic and not all contact the same businesses. Please reach out to Ms. Warren before reaching out to businesses independently so that we do not bombard our generous community of supporters. If you have a personal connection with any specific businesses, please let Ms. Warren know so that we can work together for our students.

Upcoming Events • Download and Share on Social Media

These are the larger events throughout the year. Please mark your calendars, download, and share on social media as we get closer to the event to help us advertise. Thank you for spreading the word!

Upcoming Dates

Be sure to subscribe to the calendar • www.chstrojanband.com/calendar • Some calendar events stopped syncing after we transferred to CutTime. Be sure to subscribe to this Google Calendar — the CutTime calendar automatically syncs to this one. All you have to do is click the “Add to Google Calendar” at the bottom after visiting http://www.chstrojanband.com/calendar to subscribe. The photo below shows you where to find it.

August

• 18 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 19 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 21 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 22 • Home vs. Columbia HS • Volunteer Here
• 25 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 26 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 28 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 29 • Away vs. Rome • Volunteer Here

Setpember

• 1 • Labor Day • No School
• 2 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 4 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 5 • SENIOR NIGHT • Home vs. Lithia Springs • Volunteer Here
• 6 • Saturday Rehearsal • 1:00PM – 9:00PM • Volunteer Here
• 8 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 9 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 11 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 12 • Away vs. Gainesville • Volunteer Here
• 15 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 16 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 18 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 19 • Home vs. Parker • Volunteer Here • 8th Grade Night
• 22 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 23 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 25 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 26 • OPEN • Get some rest!
• 27 • COMPETITION • Sonoravile HS • All Day • TBD • Volunteer Here
• 29 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 30 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC

October

• 1 • GMEA District Jazz Auditions • Villa Rica HS
• 2 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 3 • Away vs. Westlake • Volunteer Here
• 4 • COMPETITION • Blue Ridge Marching Competition at Fanin County HS • All Day • TBD • Volunteer Here
• 6 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 7 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 9 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 10 • Homecoming vs. Chapel Hill • Volunteer Here
• 13 – 17 Fall Break • No School
• 17 • Home vs. East Coweta • Report 3:00PM for rehearsal • Volunteer Here
• 20 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Band Field
• 21 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • SAC
• 23 • Full Band • 6:00PM – 9:00PM • Stadium
• 24 • OPEN
• 25 • COMPETITION • Home Show • Legacy of Champions • All Day • Volunteer Here
• 27 • Wind Ensemble • 3:45PM – 6:00PM • Rehersal to add percussion
• 28 • Full Band 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Halloween Show
  • Wind Ensemble Concert featuring Chris Mothersole • 7:00PM • MAC
• 30 • Full Band • 3:45PM – 6:15PM • Halloween Show
• 31 • Home vs. Douglas County • Halloween Show • Volunteer Here