BURNCOAT CLASS OF 2023 GRADUATION
The commencement ceremony is scheduled for tonight (5/31/23) at 6:00 PM, at the DCU Center. Valedictorian is Lauren Popinchalk, who will study computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Last week I hosted 84 incredible young musicians at the Capitol—students from Burncoat High who came to play at the 60th anniversary celebration of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. And the Worcester community raised over $15,000 in a flood of donations to make it happen! Amazing!
The 4th annual Central Mass Summer Music Institute is a go! Open to all high school band students this year’s institute will be held at South High School Community School in Worcester, MA from August 7-11, 2023. Register today! https://t.co/pF9qfcLQau
Though our MMEA All-State Concert is postponed (date TBD), we were able to bring all of our 500 participating students together at the end of the day yesterday so that they could perform for each other! There was an amazing sense of energy and community in the room!
It was a fantastic idea to bring all of the All-State groups together to perform for each other! Lot’s of positive energy in the room despite the disappointing postponement of the concert. Maybe we should make this part of the annual plan? #shrewsburylearms
Exciting news from the Burncoat Music Department! Ms. Andrea Cook has been awarded as the 2023 Donna Nagle Award for Excellence in General Music and will be recognized at our MA Music Educator's Association state conference this March. @MAMusicEd@WPSPerformArts@worcesterpublic
Come on out to hear some great Burncoat music magnet kids perform and enjoy some dinner, dessert and raffles with us! Thursday Feb 16 starting at 5 and 6:30pm! Tickets sold go to help fund our orchestra trip to Washington DC! Purchase at the door or from any music magnet kid! 🎶
..Sometimes being coached by our team of staff, sometimes coaching each other, sometimes working on it on their own. Is there talent and giftedness? Of course! But how great is it when that is met with hard work!
Congrats to Jayden tonight! Great musicians often hear, “you’re so talented!” and “you’ve got such a gift!”… but if you’ve ever come down to the H-Wing hallway, on days like today, you will hear kids putting in the work, with repetition and improvement..
We also got to open our public session with the National Anthem by Burncoat Quadrivium, thanks to Molly McCullough (@mollyom81) asking to bring back our tradition of student groups singing, which also meant we opened with a lovely performance of Ukranian Bell Carol.