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Activities and Clubs

Extracurricular Activities

 

Go to https://www.colonialssports.com/ for all Sports Information

Athletic Director: Matt Sabol matthew.sabol@colonial.k12.de.us 
 

 

Fall Sports

  • Football
  • Cheerleading
  • Cross Country
  • Field Hockey
  • Soccer- Boys
  • Unified Flag Football
  • Volleyball- Girls
  • Marching Band

Winter Sports

  • Basketball- Boys
  • Basketball- Girls
  • Cheerleading
  • Swimming
  • Track- Indoor
  • Unified Basketball
  • Wrestling

Spring Sports

  • Baseball
  • Golf
  • Lacrosse- Boys
  • Soccer- Girls
  • Softball
  • Tennis- Boys
  • Tennis- Girls
  • Track & Field
  • Unified Track & Field

WP Music

Curriculuar Ensembles

Intro to Steel Drums
A performance-based ensemble that teaches rudimentary steel drums skills while learning about the cultural and historical impacts of various world-percussion instruments.

Advanced Steel Drums
A performance-based ensemble that teaches advanced steel drums skills while learning about the cultural and historical impacts of various world-percussion instruments.

Prerequisite:

  • Intro to Steel Drums OR
  • Middle School Steel Drum Experience OR
  • Instructor permission

Concert Band
A performance-based ensemble that builds upon beginning instrumental and music skills to take students to the intermediate level.

Requirements:

  • Previous band experience preferred
  • For students who play or are willing to learn Brass, Woodwind, or Percussion Instruments only (strings are not included)

Concert Choir
Value: 1 Credit
Intermediate Choir performing traditional and popular music

Requirements:

  • 9th – 12th grade male students OR
  • 10th-12th grade female students with music teacher recommendation OR
  • 8th grade music teacher recommendation

Beginner Chorus
A choir that performs novice-level music while learning basic music concepts.

Requirements:

  • No high school choral or limited sight-singing experience

Select Ensemble
Advanced Choir that performs acapella, Jazz, original compositions, and student arrangements

Requirements: Successful audition to the discretion of the instructor

Wind Ensemble
A performance-based ensemble that builds upon intermediate instrumental and music skills to take students to the advanced level. The ensemble performs a difficult and varied repertoire and will provide musicians with the skills necessary to pass an audition (All-State, college, or otherwise).

Requirements: For students who play or are willing to learn Brass, Woodwind, or Percussion Instruments only (strings are not included, with the exception of Double Bass)

Prerequisite: 1 Year of Concert Band preferred AND Successful audition to the discretion of the instructor

Extracurriculuar Ensembles

Indoor Drumline

The Winter Percussion (more commonly known as Indoor Drumline) is a competitive extracurricular music ensemble at William Penn High School. Winter Percussion begins upon the completion of the Marching Band season in the fall and continues throughout the remainder of the school year. Winter Percussion competes in Tournament Indoor Association competitions throughout the East Coast. Their competitive season ends with Atlantic Coast Championships Weekend in Wildwood, NJ. The ensemble permits entry to members upon audition. This ensemble designs a show just for percussion instruments (battery and front ensemble), and performs their show in an indoor space, most typically a gymnasium. Winter Percussion is a proud, strong, successful, and ever-growing program, along with its sister program, the Visual Ensemble.

Colorguard

The Visual Ensemble (more commonly known as Indoor Guard) is a competitive extracurricular music ensemble at William Penn High School. Visual Ensemble begins upon the completion of the Marching Band season in the fall and continues throughout the remainder of the school year. Visual Ensemble competes in Tournament Indoor Association competitions throughout the East Coast. Their competitive season ends with Atlantic Coast Championships Weekend in Wildwood, NJ. The ensemble permits entry to members upon audition. This ensemble designs a show to music being performed through the three aspects of Color Guard: dance, flags, and weapon.  The ensemble performs their show in an indoor space, most typically a gymnasium. Visual Ensemble is a proud, strong, successful, and ever-growing program, along with its brother program, the Winter Percussion. 

Delaney R. Brown delaneyr.brown@colonial.k12.de.us

Jazz Ensembles

The WP Jazz Ensembles are competitive performance-based groups within William Penn High School. There are currently two Jazz Bands, Jazz II which is our intermediate group for developing musicians, and Jazz I which is our advanced group. Jazz I is highly competitive and does require an addition for participation and is the premier jazz ensemble of the Colonial School District. Jazz I became a competing ensemble in the Spring of 2016. While having performed in venues such as Loudis Recital Hall at the University of Delaware, and the Starlight Ballroom at the Wildwood Convention Center, the ensemble is high-rated and marveled by each audience who is able to experience the level of excellence and musicianship output by this ensemble.  Jazz II enjoyed its rather successful inaugural season in the Spring of 2019.

Marching Colonials

The WP Marching Colonials based out of New Castle, DE is the pride of #ColonialNation. The WP Marching Colonials strive for excellence. They begin working in May to prepare for the following school year. Periodically rehearsing through the summer, accompanied by various parades and community performances. All summer events lead up to the culminating two-week band camp. This band camp lasts two weeks which is when the marching colonials learn not one, but two productions for the year. The ensemble learns a show comprised of popular music for football games, and a show based around conceptual and thematic elements. This more advanced production is what the marching colonials perform on tour for competition.  The Marching Colonials are comprised of 8th through 12th graders from four schools across the Colonial School District including George Read, McCullough, Gunning Bedford and William Penn. The ensemble is strictly extracurricular, so students commit and volunteer their time during evenings and weekends for the months of August through November. ​The Marching Colonials have had the privilege of performing in venues across the east coast such as, MetLife Stadium, Hershey Stadium, University of Delaware, Millersville University, and Walt Disney World.

Sax Studio

The Sax Studio is a student-run ensemble within the WP Music Department. Each member is hand-selected by the student director each year. They rehearse once a week and perform a variety of repertoire ranging from popular music, common practice music, etc. This group travels and performs to a variety of venues and festivals such as the Delaware Let’s Make Music Festival, Atlantic Coast Championships Instrumental Showcase, and much more. The ensemble is among one of the top in the school and is comprised of the top brass musicians from across the department. 

Tri-M Music Honor Society

The Tri-M® Music Honor Society is the international music honor society for middle/junior high and high school students. It is designed to recognize students for their academic and musical achievements, reward them for their accomplishments and service activities, and to inspire other students to excel at music and leadership. 

 

Matthew Haddock  matthew.haddock@colonial.k12.de.us