NEW DATE: The 43rd Service of Lessons and Carols featuring music by 6-12 Band, Orchestra and Choral Ensembles

Student Performers Information:
All Lower School students participate. Lower School students should arrive at their classrooms at 5 p.m. dressed in warm, dressy attire.  Students in Kindergarten, Grades 1 and 2, will wear a school-provided costume over their warm clothing.

Middle School and Upper School performers are required to arrive at 5 p.m. wearing concert attire. Concert attire includes black dress pants, knee to floor-length dresses/skits, black 3/4 to long-sleeve blouses, black suit jacket with white shirt and black tie, formal black shoes, and black socks or stockings. Optional: school-colored blanket to keep warm when not playing or singing.

Event Parking and Attendance Guidelines
We want everyone to have a festive and enjoyable experience. To accommodate the anticipated large turnout of our St. Margaret’s community members, we request families to please park in designated areas by grade to evenly disperse arrival and departure traffic and make use of all available St. Margaret’s parking lots and spaces.

• Campus parking lots will close following regular dismissal and will re-open for this event at 4:45 pm. All student participants should arrive to their LS classrooms or PAC by 5 p.m.
• Please arrive in one car per family, or carpool if appropriate. Please park according to oldest child participating in the program.
• Grades K – 2: Lower School families whose oldest student attends Grades K-2, please enter the main La Novia campus entrance and park in the Gateway, Early School and Performing Arts Lots. Security will direct parking, including some curbside parking, as needed. Please escort your Lower School students to their classrooms and then proceed to Chalmers Field.
• Grades 3 – 5: Lower School families whose oldest student attends Grades 3-5, please park in the St. Margaret’s Parking Lots in the Ortega Village Center. Enter campus through the pedestrian gate between the Middle School and Wallace Hall. Please escort your Lower School students to their classrooms and then proceed to Chalmers Field.
• Middle and Upper School: Middle and Upper School families, please park in the St. Margaret’s Parking Lots in the Ortega Village Center. Enter campus through the pedestrian gate between the Middle School and Wallace Hall. Middle and Upper School students should proceed to the Performing Arts Center and families can proceed straight to Chalmers Field.
• Street parking is allowed on Calle Arroyo, east of La Novia and west of Rancho Viejo Road (no street parking along school campus).Out of courtesy to our neighbors, please do not park in the Ortega Cottages (Calle Arroyo across from the Upper School) or in front of the Ortega Village Center retail businesses. Unauthorized vehicles in those areas are subject to towing by the business owners. 

Event Seating on Chalmers Field

• Lawn seating in designated open area on a first-come basis.
• Dress warmly, and you may bring blankets and low-profile (beach-style) chairs for seating.
• Please allow adequate spacing between parties and consider the view for other Tartans in selecting your seating area.
• Please no food or drinks.