Dear Parents,

Our first performance at the football stadium is Thursday, September 30.

Our two required football game performances as listed on the band calendar given at the beginning of the year will be:

Thursday, September 30                   Warm-up 5:30 P.M.    Performance ends 7:30 P.M.

Thursday, October 14                        Warm-up 5:30 P.M.    Performance ends 7:30 P.M.

Warm-up will be in the stands at the stadium. Dismissal will be from the same location at half-time of the eighth grade game or the time listed above, whichever comes first. No one will meet or be at the Middle School. Students must take their instruments home from school that afternoon and bring them to the stadium.

The Band Boosters will feed the band students free of charge at the October 14^th game, for which we are very grateful. Parents, if you are not already, please strongly consider becoming a member of Band Boosters – they do so much for our kids!!

Thank you so much!

Dr. Chris J. Walker and Mrs. Erin Wambles

The Stadium Procedures are as follows:

Be a good representative of our band at all times!!  Our band is a group that depends on each other to play well and to act with decorum and dignity.  No matter how large the band gets, each person is important in upholding the standards of the group.

1.   Never play in public unless we are performing together. Practice is done at home. 
2.   NO GUM!! NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE BAND SECTION!!!!

3.   No one is to sit in the band section except band members and those Dr. Walker, Mrs. Wambles, or Mr. Williams give permission.
4.   Be early!!  Do not cut it so close as to have to run to your place.  Students are to be seated in the stadium with their instrument ready to perform at 5:20 P.M.
5.  Stay seated in your assigned seat.  You may stand to cheer a good play, then return to your seat.  We stand to cheer with the cheerleaders as a band.  Our job at the game is to play our instruments.  When the team scores, be prepared to play -- cheer after.
6.   Use the restroom before call time.  You can use the restroom again after we are dismissed.
7.   Always be complimentary of the other bands.  Say "Thank you" if other compliment and be pleasant and ignore others if they are derogatory.
8.   If there is a hurt player on the field of either team: be seated and quiet, clap when he gets up.  
9.   Cases should be left in the atdium section beside the band.
10. Dress is band shirt (tucked in!), blue jeans, and standard brown or black belt with nondescript buckle.
11. Enjoy the game, but when a director steps to the rail to announce a song, be silent, attentive, and quick.
12. Never distract the football players.  We are both there to do a job for our school.  FOCUS!!

The students will perform for the latter portion of the seventh grade game and the beginning portion of the eighth grade game. The students will be dismissed at halftime of the eighth grade game or 7:30 P.M., whichever comes first. The students are dismissed from our care at this time. The students may leave at this time, or may stay for the remainder of the game. Please make a plan now with your young person as to where and when you will pick them up. Remember: no one is to play on their own.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP IN DOING THIS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE!!!   SEE YOU ON GAME DAY!!