September 8, 2015

Post date: Sep 8, 2015 6:16:15 PM

Rehearsal Schedule for the week:

  • Monday – LABOR DAY! NO SCHOOL! NO REHEARSALS!

  • Tuesday - Full Band (3-5); Hornline, Percussion, & Guard Sectionals (5-6)

  • Thursday - Full Band (3-5)

  • Friday - FB @ Fulton City – 7:30 pm – We will meet at 5:15 for immediate departure!

  • Saturday - First Contest @ UT Martin - We meet at 1:00 for rehearsal!

Announcements:

  • I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing Labor Day!

  • Thanks to everyone who attended the football game this past Friday against McKenzie and helped in any way to make that night a successful night for us!

  • Thanks to everyone who helped to sell Braided Bread! You guys sold 460 loaves of bread! The bread will be on in SEPTEMBER 16TH! Stay tuned for an email from Wendy Tate concerning pick-up instructions/time.

  • Woodwinds will play off their “chromatics” warm-up MEMORIZED during sectionals on Tuesday!

  • We will finish the uniform fitting today during sectionals! Percussion/Front Ensemble students are the last to be fitted so they may be a little later coming out after sectionals than normal.

  • Friday night will be our first time wearing full uniform! All students must have on a theme shirt under his/her uniform, have on shorts or something suitable for him/her to change into/out of his/her uniform in an open area, gloves, black socks (socks MUST not be ankle socks!), and CLEAN MTX marching shoes. Mr. Brockman/Ms. Evans will have gloves for sale this week for $3/pair. Shoes are in and students who have paid for their shoes have received them. Shoes are $36/pair. They need to break them in this week before wearing them on Friday night and on Saturday.

  • Saturday is our first contest at UT Martin in Martin, TN! We will meet in the band room at 1:00 for rehearsal. Students should eat lunch BEFORE they show up for rehearsal! The contest begins at 3:00 with us performing at 7:00. See the attached itinerary for exact details. We hope as many of you as possible with make the short drive up to Martin to help cheer on these kids for all of their hard work and effort over these last few months! If you never been to a marching contest please adhere to marching contest etiquette that is attached to this email. The students will be briefed and expected to adhere to these guidelines as well. Admission to the contest is $10. See http://www.utm.edu/departments/music/smbi.php for additional contest information.

  • Since Friday/Saturday is our first time to travel, here is the process by which we travel. ALL STUDENTS MUST RIDE THE BUS TO EVERY FOOTBALL GAME/CONTEST! After a game/contest you have the option to check your child out and take them with you but you MUST fill out a ride home form (attached to this email or there will be some on the band room table starting TOMORROW). After a contest/game is over we will march/walk back to the busses to pack and load equipment. ONLY AFTER EVERYTHING has been loaded you can begin to check out your child with his/her chaperone at his/her bus door. Just because you are ready to leave your child will NOT be allowed to sign-out until EVERYTHING is loaded and I give the go ahead for chaperones to start allowing students to check-out. At that point you will get your student along with you (the parent) and go to your child's bus and sign (physically sign) your child out with his/her chaperone. REMEMBER YOU CAN ONLY SIGN OUT YOUR CHILD IF YOU HAVE TURNED IN A RIDE HOME FORM! If you take your child and you do not have a ride home form you forfeit your ability to check them out for the rest of year! RIDE HOME FORMS ARE DUE (in my office on the 3rd filing cabinet in the grey plastic bin) NO LATER THAN THURSDAY @ 5:00 for FB games and FRIDAY @ 3:00 PM for contests! NO EXCEPTIONS! Your student may NOT be checked out by another child's parent unless you notate on your ride home that they are to be released to them AND that parent can show proof that they have the school board approved insurance to transport other people's children. You can check your child out and then YOU can put them in a car with another parent but we can not release a student to another parent without the 2 above stated pieces of information. Students who ride the bus back will be given a message by their bus chaperone(s) when we are 30 minutes away from the school so that they can call and let you know so that you can be at the school when we return. Please pick your child up in a timely manner so the directors are not stuck at the school waiting on you to pick up your child. The directors try our best to respect your time so please return the favor by being there in a timely fashion to pick up your child. Once back at the school, students are allowed to ride with whomever you see fit. They are not required to be checked out at this point.

  • We travel to games/contests in a caravan (directors up front followed by busses/truck). We are all in radio contact with each other so please do not get in between the caravan if at possible when we travel. You are more than welcome to follow behind the last bus.

  • Don’t forget about your drinks that each student is asked to bring for the contest! Be sure your student’s name is on the drinks and they are placed under the table in the band room NO LATER THAN the Monday of the contest!

  • We have our last Band Booster Meeting before our contest NEXT MONDAY NIGHT (14th) @ 7:00 pm in the band room! We need EVERYONE'S HELP to pull this event off. We need you at the meeting NEXT MONDAY NIGHT if at all possible. If you are not able to attend the meeting due to prior commitments and would still like to help out with the contest please contact Kim Todd so we can get you plugged in and know that we can count on you! Thanks in advance for your willingness to help!

  • ATTENTION SENIORS & SENIOR PARENTS: The state scholarship application deadline is October 1st! You do not have to be a music major to get some money to be in band in college! Don’t miss this opportunity!

Upcoming Dates:

  • Friday, September 18th - FB vs. Fulton Co. (Homecoming) - 7:00 - Students will have to be dressed in FULL UNIFORM @ 5:30 and in their seats for homecoming activities

  • September 20th – Union City Contest – This contest is a prelims/finals event. There are 15 bands competing and 10 of them advance to finals that evening. Our prelims performance time is 2:15 with finals beginning at 7:00 if we make one of the top 10 spots. Our meeting time will be released in next week’s announcements.