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A Happy New Year to all Orchestra Members and their families.
 
The first News Letter for 2012 has been circulated via email today and we hope all members and parents will take the opportunity to read this prior to the return to rehearsals on 7 January 2012 as, amongst other important information, it contains details regarding changes to rehearsal arrangements at Cordwalles School. If you have not received a copy of the News Letter by email, it means that you are not currently on our circulation list. Please sign up today.
 
A copy of the News Letter can be viewed on-line in the ‘Community’ section of this web site.
 
We all look forward to another successful year for the Orchestra in 2012.

Can we remind everyone that has not yet signed up to received email communications from September 2011, that this will be our only means of communication with parents and orchestra members from the start of next term.

So far, 73% of orchestra members parents have signed up to receive email communications, which means that 27% of our membership will likely be in the dark about orchestra activities from September, unless they do something about it!!

If you cannot be contacted by email, please let us know and we will continue to produce paper copies for you.

Junior Section parents have the highest percentage of sign-ups (83%), with the lowest being our Intermediate Section parents (57%).

We will be delighted if, over the next month, we see our sign-up numbers achieve our 100% email objective.

In the meantime, we hope that all members and parents have an enjoyable summer holiday break.

Looking forward to seeing you again on 10 September.

Welcome to the new, updated CYWO website. Our old site had become a bit tired and dated and with the help of a brilliant young local designer, Daniel Gough of Codecake (www.codecake.co.uk), we have now produced a brand new site which we hope you will like.

This new website is intended to be the source of information for all matters related to the orchestra.

The “Events” page will list all rehearsal dates plus all concerts and spring/summer playouts, with details of times and venues and links to Google maps to show the locations, which we hope will be a help in planning travel arrangements. Any last minute weather related decisions regarding outdoor playouts will also be displayed here.

With the launch of the new site, there are also some important new features we would like to bring to your attention:

- We are intending to phase out the production of paper letters shortly, and instead build an e-mail database of all parents. This will not only save costs but also make sure that you receive up to the minute news. No more searching the bottom of music cases to find letters three weeks old..! Please make sure that you register your e-mail address with us as soon as possible (see below)

- Past letters will also be displayed under the “Community” page

- We are also taking the opportunity to add some new features which we hope will be of benefit, especially to users.

- There is a new “Twitter” link that will be used to keep family and friends updated during overseas concert tours by the Senior orchestra. (Coming soon)

- We are adding a new “Marketplace” page to help parents buy and sell their musical instruments

- There is a link to the existing Facebook CYWO page to allow orchestra members to keep in touch with each other

We hope that you like the new site. Please feel free to feed back to the committee any comments that you may have.