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This week will be a light one for us with the bands. Thursday will be a scheduled Wind Ensemble rehearsal in the evening from 6-7:30 pm, but all other after-school stuff will be limited. If you missed the announcement, in advance of the expected winter storm, OEISD has already announced a 2-hour delay for Tuesday morning and is monitoring conditions
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Happy New Year! We are looking forward to welcoming students back from the break on Wednesday! Please do remind them to bring their instruments back to school on Wednesday morning! This week has a couple of items of note, so I wanted to make sure to send this out on Sunday like normal, though. The first is that we do
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We would like to begin today by thanking our parents, alumni, and student volunteers for helping us run the Area Marching Contest on Saturday. You all did an amazing job of keeping the contest running smoothly, and we greatly appreciate your help! Thank you to everyone for helping us successfully navigate Homecoming this past week, too! This week, we will
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Welcome back from Spring Break! The Spring Lull is over, and we’re about to hit the busy parts of the year as we sprint towards the finish at the end! Before I go on to this week’s announcements, I do want to give a shoutout to Odem HS trombonist Breanna Palmer on earning a State Silver Medal in Powerlifting this
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Happy New Year!!! I hope this message finds everyone healthy and well as we begin the New Year in Odem! We would like to begin by congratulating the students who competed at the Area Auditions this weekend! Savannah Beltran placed 12th and Evelyn Contreras placed 15th in the Clarinet sections. Martin Doria placed 7th in the F Horn section, and Jonathan Espinoza placed
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First of all we would like to congratulate the 50+ Odem Band students who performed at the All-Region Clinic/Concerts this weekend! This was the most students we’ve been privileged to take to this event, and they did an outstanding job with their concerts! We would also like to congratulate our HS band students on an outstanding performance this past Thursday
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We would like to begin this week by congratulating the students on two outstanding performances Saturday that yielded them the Class 1A Champion award! With the extended game on Friday night everyone was exhausted by the end, but I believe our students represented the community of Odem very well! There were many compliments on our show! Most importantly we received
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Welcome to the first full week of our competitive marching season! This week The Spirit of OHS will travel to Beeville to compete in the Beeville ISD Marching contest. This will be our first chance to have judges begin offering us feedback for this season, and we look forward to the students getting to start their season off right! Tickets
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Welcome officially to the new school year! Our HS students have been working hard during summer band to prepare, and now we’ll begin our final preparations to begin our season of performances! This Wednesday, at 8pm, we will have our ‘Meet the Band’ performance. Since we do not yet have the stadium our plan is to do this performance on
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This week we begin by congratulating Senior Trombonist Ethan Sanchez on placing 1st at the Area Auditions, and earning his 2nd Trip to the All-State Bands! We are proud of our other Area contenders, Savannah Beltran, Kassidi Tijerina, Martin Doria, and Landon Garza for also having good showings in the process! ATSSB has not finalized plans yet, but tentatively they are trying
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