TWIB Notes: 8/12-8/18
Vertical Raise Fundraiser
Spring Trip: Austin/San Antonio (April 11-13, 2025)
Our Spring Trip this year will be a weekend in Austin and San Antonio (Friday, April 11-Sunday, April 13). If you are interested in signing up for this trip, you will need to pay the non-refundable deposit and submit the signed trip contract to the AHS Band Office safe by Friday, August 30, 2024. Click the button below for the 2024 Spring Trip. Here are trip highlights:
- PRELIMINARY ITINERARY
- Rehearsals, workshops, clinics, and campus tours at the University of Texas at Austin
- Spend the day at Six Flags Fiesta Texas
- Dinner and shopping at the San Antonio Riverwalk
- Natural Bridge Caverns Tours
- Accommodations: Two nights Marriott Northwest (or similar)
- All transportation and meals provided
- Students are responsible for any souvenirs and snacks/meals not included
We hope everyone in the band and guard can join us on our optional spring trip.
Athletic Conflict & Morning Seminary Form
Morning seminary students are let out in time to be at rehearsal by 7:00am. If you participate in morning seminary, your band director will get that information so they can give you excused tardies in the rare occasions you may be late.
Meet the Eagles (optional): Saturday - 11am-12pm
This Saturday is our annual "Meet the Eagles" event in Eagle Stadium. The purpose of this event is to recognize all the student groups that make up "Friday Night Lights" in the stadium and celebrate this year with a watermelon social.
This is a completely optional event where we are not performing. If you are planning on coming to this short event, come dress with your Allen Escadrille Dryfit and enter Eagle stadium by 10:50am. We'll stage on the field with football (varsity, JV, and freshmen), Tallenettes, ROTC, Cheer, and Production. You'll be guaranteed to be done by noon or sooner.
Hope you can join us in Eagle Stadium Saturday morning at 10:50am!
Meals During the Marching Season
Away Games & Marching Contests: Dietary Questionnaire
The band provides meals and snacks for the band at all away games and marching contests through the refreshment fee that was paid at registration. There is no time to get meals or go home and bring meals. Please click the button below for the Dietary Questionnaire. The form lists the kinds of meals we serve. This form must be filled out every year from every student.
Marching Band Reminders
Required Morning Rehearsals
All band and guard students are required to be at all rehearsals. Morning rehearsals are Monday-Friday from 7:00am-8:30am at the AHS Track Stadium. We ask that students arrive around 6:30am to avoid heavy traffic at drop off (in front of the AHS Performing Arts Center) and enter the track stadium. LFC students will shuttle to LFC at 8:15am. In addition to Friday night football games and competitions, please check the band calendar on www.allenband.com for a few evening rehearsals and events/performances throughout the season.
Absences & Tardies
All students are required to check-in on their UDB App. Students that do not have phones must check in with a band director every rehearsal. If a student is unsure they are checking in properly, they should communicate with their squad leader or director for assistance. Students that fail to check-in on UDB or with a director properly (even if they show up to rehearsal) will have grade deductions.
Please see HANDBOOK for information regarding absences/tardies and the code of student conduct. Parents need to communicate with their son/daughter's band or guard director to report absences/tardies.
Uniform Fitting & Registration Fees
- If you have not fit for a uniform, please e-mail uniforms@allenband.com to schedule a fitting time before summer band rehearsals this week.
- While you can see how much you owe in fees on your CutTime dashboard, you cannot pay fees through CutTime. Email susan.fulk@allenband.com if you need assistance regarding what fees are owed. You can only pay fees the following way:
- Drop off a payment (check/cash) in the AHS Band Safe
- Mail a payment to Allen High School Band (Attention: Susan Fulk)
- School Pay: CLICK HERE.
- School Pay adds a fee to your payment.
- Please know that sales tax of 8.25% must be added to the final balance. Students will be billed sales tax if not added to payments.
New Students That Missed Summer Band
If you have missed summer band, you have missed over 50 hours of instruction. In addition, absences and tardies will impact your class grade now that school has started. You are required to be present at our daily morning rehearsals from 7am-8:30am. Please know that you will be responsible for bringing four required documents (UIL Pre-Participation Form, Field Trip Form, Handbook Acknowledgement, and UIL Marching Band Acknowledgement) before you can rehearse with the marching band. You are still required to come to morning rehearsal even if you don't have your required documents; you will observe rehearsal in the track stadium so you can check in for attendance and learn as much as you can without directly practicing with the group.
PRIVATE LESSONS
Make sure you are signed up for private lessons! May of our teachers are teaching during summer break and are filling their schedules for the Fall. You can schedule your lessons during morning rehearsals (beginning at 7:30am) and during your band classes with most of our teachers. We have a new oboe teacher and we have added an additional bassoon teacher.
To sign-up for lessons, simply communicate with one of our teachers to schedule. If you need help finding a teacher, please don't hesitate contacting your band director.
Volunteer Opportunities
Lots of opportunities available. Log into www.allenband.com to sign up. This week:
- 8.30: Home Game
- 8.30: Home Game Meals
- 9.6: Home Game
- 9.6: Home Game Meals
- 9.13: MORNING LOAD
- 9.13: Away Game
- 9.13 CFA Meal Bagging
- 9.20: Homecoming
- 9.20: Home Game Meals
- Every Friday in September is Uniform Cleaning Return