IT'S AREA WEEK, PLANO!!!!!

Thank you for your amazing hard work and congratulations on a solid performances at DMI on Saturday! Keep it going!!! Next up: UIL Area J Marching Contest

**All-Region registration & payment is now past due. Please visit the Plano Band website to register. Entry fee is $11. You may pay online OR by cash/check to the black box (put your on payment envelope)

Reminder: All-Region participation is required of all Honors Band students AND Wind Ensemble members.

1. Have intense focus all week

2. Make these 4 rehearsals the best of the season

3. Prepare and allow for greatness

4. Trust

1. Marching Rehearsals, this week:

• Mon, Tues, *Wed, Thurs
• Wednesday's rehearsal is at Clark Stadium from 5:30-7:30
• Transportation on your own!

2. Sectionals/Masterclasses during class this week (NO PRIVATE LESSONS ON SECTIONAL DAYS)

• SYMPHONIC & WIND ENSEMBLE - Tuesdays Woodwinds / Wednesdays Brass
• Concert - Wednesday

3. Football Game #10, AWAY @ Rock Hill HS (Children's Health Stadium - Prosper), Friday

• Uniform Rack Locations: Woodwinds in Practice Room Hallway; Guard in Ens. Rm; Brass & Perc. in Band Hall
• REQUIRED ATTIRE: SHOW shirt, GREY Plano Band shorts, GREY Plano Band socks, marching shoes
• Friday's uniform: FORMAL
• 4:35p: Load equipment
• 5:00p: Dinner on porch/cafe
• ALL trash must be cleaned up & thrown away when finished!
• 5:20p: Change into full uniform & marching shoes - NO JEWELRY / HAIR UP!!!
• Carry shako box to bus
• 5:40p: Load Bus
• 6:15p: Arrive to stadium
• 6:20p: Exit bus in FULL uniform with all zippers zipped up (take shako in box with you) / unload
• Neatly stack cases / take shako boxes to stands
• 6:30p: Warm-up / Go to stands
• 7:00p: Game start
• AFTER GAME:

1. Unload bus
2. Check-in uniform on your designated Uniform Rack - THIS MUST BE DONE
3. Get instrument from truck / store in locker
   
   1. You must check-in your uniform with your U-Crew member FIRST. You can leave once your U-Crew member clears you. Do not simply put your uniform on your rack and leave!!
4. NO CiCi's this week!

4. UIL AREA J Marching Contest, Saturday @ McKinney ISD Stadium (itinerary attached)

• Prelim performance time: 3:00pm

1. All Region Entry Fee - $11 - PAST DUE - PAY HERE or to the black box

2. Band Spring Trip Payment #4 - $111 - DUE Nov 10 ($408 total in account)

3. REMINDER: Family contribution must be paid in full by Dec. 15 in order to go on the band trip!

1. WE, SYM - All-State Music Evaluation 2nd 1/2 Etude #1 - DUE Oct 30 brass only (6 Cumulative All-State Test = Semester 2 Chair Placement)

2. CON - Etude #3 - TBD (6 Cumulative Tests = Semester 2 Chair Placement)

1. Marching Rehearsal week of Nov 4: TBD

2. Butter Braid Fundraiser begins, Nov. 4

3. Plano Band Halloween Social, Nov 4, 5-7:30p

• pumpkin carving, candy, movie, Wii Sports challenge, & more!

4. Student Holiday / No School, Nov. 5

5. Brass Sectionals during class, Nov. 6

6. Plano Band Restaurant Night, BJ's Restaurant, Nov. 6, 12-10p

• Must present attached flyer when ordering!

7. Plano Jazz Performance & Sweet Firefly Gourmet Ice Cream, Nov. 7, 7:00-8:30p

8. Horn Masterclass w/ Plano Community Band, Nov. 8, 10-11a (class release periods 1-3 for all horn players)

9. No Football Game / BYE Week, Friday, Nov. 8

• there will be no football game this week even if we are in the playoffs
• Playoff football game, Nov. 15 or 16, if applicable.

10. Lewisville Drumline Invitational, Nov. 8

11. Lonestar Drumline Classic, Nov. 16

Students that received a failing grade in an onlevel class on 9.20 have now regained eligibility, assuming that all onlevel classes were passed on October 11.

Students who received a failing grade in an onlevel course on October 11 (end of 1st Nine Weeks) are now ineligible until at least Nov. 15

Email: jason.lewis@pisd.edu
Website: www.pshsband.org
Location: 2200 Independence Parkway, Plano, TX, USA
Phone: 469-752-9398
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