Kennedale Junior High is located in Kennedale, Texas, which is between Arlington, Mansfield, and Fort Worth. With an enrollment hovering around 500 students, Kennedale Junior High offers students the perfect mix of large school accessibility with a small school feel. Band, choir, theater, art, film and broadcasting, and career explorations are all available electives for students to enrich their school instruction. The band program at Kennedale Junior High and James A. Arthur Intermediate consists of over 250 students. Classes include Honors, Symphonic, Concert, and Beginner Bands.
In Kennedale, band instruction begins at the intermediate campus when students are in the sixth grade. Classes are divided into like-instrumentation and are all team taught with the junior high and high school directors together. While in beginner band, students are working extremely hard to develop this new skill of playing an instrument. Emphasis is placed on fundamental sound and development of proper technique on a particular instrument. By the end of a student's beginner year, they will be able to perform as a band and will have honed their listening skills to an appropriate level. The beginner year culminates with an audition for placement into a junior high band.
Once in the junior high bands, students are divided into three performing groups; Honors Band, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band. Students in the Honors, Symphonic, and Concert bands have weekly sectionals where the students continue to develop and grow their new found talents. The bands at Kennedale Junior High have many performance opportunities including a Winter and Spring concert, Kennedale Tree Lighting Ceremony, UIL Concert and Sight Reading contest, All-Region band, pep rallies, football games, and several music festivals every year! All students are encouraged to audition for the region 7 ATSSB All-Region Band.
The Kennedale Junior High Band program is an avenue for students to express themselves through music while continuing to maintain an extremely high standard of excellence in academics, athletics, and fine arts.
In Kennedale, band instruction begins at the intermediate campus when students are in the sixth grade. Classes are divided into like-instrumentation and are all team taught with the junior high and high school directors together. While in beginner band, students are working extremely hard to develop this new skill of playing an instrument. Emphasis is placed on fundamental sound and development of proper technique on a particular instrument. By the end of a student's beginner year, they will be able to perform as a band and will have honed their listening skills to an appropriate level. The beginner year culminates with an audition for placement into a junior high band.
Once in the junior high bands, students are divided into three performing groups; Honors Band, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band. Students in the Honors, Symphonic, and Concert bands have weekly sectionals where the students continue to develop and grow their new found talents. The bands at Kennedale Junior High have many performance opportunities including a Winter and Spring concert, Kennedale Tree Lighting Ceremony, UIL Concert and Sight Reading contest, All-Region band, pep rallies, football games, and several music festivals every year! All students are encouraged to audition for the region 7 ATSSB All-Region Band.
The Kennedale Junior High Band program is an avenue for students to express themselves through music while continuing to maintain an extremely high standard of excellence in academics, athletics, and fine arts.