001we are good I will call this meeting to order thank you all for coming this evening Dr reckley here Mrs K here Mrs S here Mr Sharp here Mrs here United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God first item is approval of the agenda as presented are no amendments to it is there a motion move seconds discussion roll call Mrs PTO yes dry yes Mrs S yes Mrs Young yes Mr sh yes on to Communications okay um first up we'd like to recognize uh some achievements of a few of our students so miss Meer said that she wasn't able to be here unfortunately this evening but um I have some students that have participated in Solo and emble and um if you have not participated in Solo and Ensemble
002previously um you get a new piece of music and then you have to continue to work through that piece of music um it's just in these cases they were all solo so it's it's them and accompany us and that's it so um you know really looking at whenever the judges are sitting there listening to you it's just you so if you mess up or or you're you're off by a little bit um you have to uh be sure that you can recover and and and it's pretty intense isn't it yeah uh the other piece is um just that ongoing work in refining their skills and and continuing to uh develop their instruments so again we just want to recognize the work that you uh three ladies have put in to your to your uh instrument
003and continue to refine and get better so uh first of all we'd like to recognize uh an excellent rating so excellent rating first to Samantha [Applause] Buckley all right congratulations thank you and then Mr Sharp grab a picture in here next up with a an excellent ratings Catherine Buckley congratulations get Mr Sharp in there excellent and next up receiving a superior rating so this is a familiar face from last year too Olivia come on [Applause] up congratulations all right and we'll get Mr Sharp in here stand all right thank you and ladies you want to tell us a little bit about kind of your your first of all tell us what instrument and then tell us uh about the piece that you played um I stand sure you can stand up where you're at it's
004fine okay so hello my name is Katherine buy and I'm a junior here at of M Creek and so I am currently section leader of the trumpet section and the solo that I chose it was a Class B so uh solos can be broken up into an a b or c rating a being the hardest and C being the relatively easiest and so I chose a medium Class B and through this solo I worked with a great accompanist um from the bloom Carol area and uh my solo had three parts to it each being a page long and it kind of the song kind of developed over the course of the um three pages where the first one kind of started started off slow and then the middle one was a little faster and then
005it kind of De and then the last song started out fast and developed into a beautiful piece at the end and so I really enjoyed my solo and I probably plan on doing this next year as well excellent thank [Applause] you yeah so my name is uh Samantha Buckley I'm a freshman um I'm the section leader of the French horns and my piece was called gavat um it was a Class C because some of the other ones were much more challenging but I did the best I could and I definitely learned a lot it was different than so ample in middle school being at a school with like much more other competitors but um it was definitely enjoyable and I [Applause] definitely my name is Olia schacher um last year I did a keyboard solo
006but this year I attempted a uh drum set and doing that I chose a class seat it was a Latin Style piece that was a lot of fun to play um it was very short and sweet very fun but it was definitely challenging at some points one last question how long do you guys work on this piece and develop learning it and developing it how long it definitely months yeah I think we got the piece before Christmas break because she miss Myer gives us a couple samples to look through and then we practice them on our own and then pick the one that we want and we competed in late January right so you have around a month or so to kind of pull it all together right right well again congratulations and thank you
007for your hard work and an excellent representation of man Clear Creek thank you uh one more person in Communications I'd like to recognize before we take a break and you guys can join us for um Refreshments just want to acknowledge Mr Dennis uh real quick if you could step up here Mr Dennis you bring your instrument I'll be playing for tonight yes you have your choice you have your choice of a French horn trumpet or the drum step so one of the one of the pieces Mr R Dennis doesn't know that that I was going to acknowledge this tonight but we received about a month ago we received a change in our school Improvement status for uh Amanda Clear Creek High School and um it was based upon our graduation rate and the thing about
008school Improvement and in your federal designations is you are way behind on what graduation year so actually it was the class of 2022 um is the data that we're looking on but looking at uh is where we ended up in that status um but good news is uh that we are no longer in in school Improvement status for graduation or at Amanda Clear Creek Amanda Clear Creek High School and uh just I I noticed between Mr Dennis and his team uh the counselors and and really it's a team effort with all the administrators working together um that you know circling back looking at each individual student what are we doing to ensure that every student is successful they graduate they have a career plan so again Mr Dennis just congratulations on that work and uh
009a lot of hard work on the part of the staff and they've got a couple sitting over here yes you to they they are tirelessly working with our kids trying to find ways to help them get through whatever class they're struggling with um they work constantly new creative they bend over backwards to get things done help kids get things done and work really hard with them so this really comes back to a lot of hard work on their part so appreciate that so great news thank you to uh the high school staff Mr [Applause] so we'll pause here for a few minutes and there's cookies back there on the table is kind of a congratulations to everyone energy [Music]