Tag Day Schedule, August 22

Tag Day route boxes ready to go!

For Tag Day, all students should bring a rain jacket/umbrella, a water bottle, lunch money, and instruments/equipment if they are able. Students will receive their 2026 Marching Hawks T-Shirts on Saturday. The community knows we are coming and is typically very supportive. We have drivers signed up, but we would love to have more if you’re able!. Volunteer using the SignUpGenius.

Schedule

• 8:00am – Students Arrive, eat breakfast (Middle School Lecture Hall by Door 9)

• 8:40am – Brief safety meeting and dismiss to cars

• 9:00am – Students depart on first route

• Approx. 12:00pm – Students return/go out for lunch, then report back for additional route if available

• 3:30pm – All students back from routes, clean up, depart

Tag Day Drivers Needed

Students preparing for Tag Day 2025.

The band’s most important fundraiser of the year is starting this weekend! For two Saturdays in a row—August 22nd and August 29th—the band students break into small groups, fan out, and place an orange tag on nearly every door inside Hayfield Secondary’s school boundary, inviting our community to support the band. The donations received during Tag Day fund the basic operations of the band, from specialized instructors to instrument transportation to contest entry fees.

To make Tag Day a success, we need parent or guardian drivers and breakfast donations! Please use our Sign Up Genius to let us know you can drive one of the 22 routes with the students and/or donate breakfast items. We need drivers and donations for both Saturdays. Driving a route is a lovely way to meet the students in the band—you’ll have three or four new marchers to cheer for this season!

Students and drivers meet at the Band Room at 7:45 a.m. both days to get their routes and prepare for the day. Most routes are complete by lunchtime. Drivers traditionally take their groups out to a local restaurant where students purchase their own lunches before returning to the band room.

Sign up to drive or donate today!

Volunteer Sign Up Genius

We have some early needs for volunteers and item donations as we go into the second week of summer band camp. All volunteer opportunities and donation sign-ups are on our Sign Up Genius.  Please use Sign Up Genius to let the boosters know how you would like to participate or what you can bring.

Pool Party, Wednesday, August 12

Help us celebrate the start of the season! We need food donations as well as parents to attend and help support the event.

Student Ice Cream Party, Friday, August 14

Help us treat our hardworking Marching Hawks by donating ice cream toppings for the students.

Tag Day #1 and #2, Saturday, August 22 & Saturday, August 29

Tag Day is one of our most important fundraisers of the year. Students canvas the community asking for donations, and with 22 routes to cover, we need parent volunteers to drive groups of students to their assigned neighborhoods. Driver training is provided the morning of each Tag Day.

Let’s Band Together

Thanks to everyone who joined the Hayfield Band Boosters at this evening’s parent social! If you missed out, don’t worry—there will be plenty of chances to get to know each other throughout the year. And most importantly, you can join the booster’s email list right here. Share your email address with us in this Google Form. There are only four questions, and two of them are your first and last name!

The QR code on this card links to the same form.

Band Parent Social at Mission BBQ, August 6 at 6 P.M.

Come out for a band parent social Thursday, August 6, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Mission BBQ in the Landsdowne Center across from Wegmans. All families of band students are invited! Come out, meet other band parents, plug in to the volunteer efforts for the band this year. Learn about the upcoming Tag Day fundraiser and make some friends! Families are responsible for their own bill.