Friday, April 3, 2020 by Averil Spence-Clarke | Uncategorized

To All ASC Music Students & Parents:

First and foremost, I would like to send out a “BIG THANK YOU” to all our parents & community frontline and essential workers!!  Without your caring, generous contributions to our community, we would be in a much worse position.

The news today certainly underlines the fact that we are in this crisis mode for the foreseeable future.  Life style changes are now mandatory.I know that I am still struggling with the “many” day to day changes that I have to deal with and I am certain that you must all be in the same position.

For those who were able to attend the “Meet & Greet” – I appreciate your attendance and input.Following that meeting, a couple of outcomes were decided:

• This will be my final email for a while.  Instead, I will post updates including this message to the portal by 5:00 pm every Friday unless there is a message of sufficient and major import to warrant an urgent email.
• I am available to accept any calls/texts/emails or arranged Zoom/FaceTime calls to discuss any challenges or concerns
• Students will receive lesson notes on an ongoing basis through the portal notes.
• If you are interested in intermittent or regular ON-LINE lessons, I have transitioned to the Zoom platform.  I know there are concerns with security, but it is the best one available for this type of lessons.  Lesson days are currently: Mondays & Thursdays from 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM.  I will add extra hours/days when needed. Once a lesson has been booked, I will send you a ZOOM invitation (a url address) that will allow you to meet me for the lesson(s) and will confirm whether the timeslot will be regular/irregular.  For recurring lessons, you will be able to use the same URL for each lesson.
• Scheduled Lessons to date have worked well with just a few glitches along the way. For the most part, those have been from the learning curve of (you guessed it….. the not too technically oriented music teacher) namely, myself!!J

Upcoming:  I am working on some support models for students unable to schedule lessons or uncomfortable with the technology.  This would enable some interaction and hopefully, minimize any loss to music learning to date.  More to follow.   If students or parents have ideas for continued learning, please contact me, I would love to hear from you. 

Until then, please take care of yourselves & be safe.

Mrs. A.