Dear M100 Family,
Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! Excellent week of rehearsals! Great job Saturday - our most productive rehearsal yet! Thanks to our awesome Band Boosters for all of your help with trailers and props and providing Halloween treats after the rehearsal! Thank you students for your continued energy and commitment to this activity! You are doing GREAT things! Please continue to engage in masking and distancing practices so that we can all stay healthy and continue to work with one another in person!
Si necesita hablar con alguien en español, envíeme un correo electrónico a jbiggs0106@yahoo.com. (Jasmine Biggs)
COVID PRE-SCREENING DAILY
All parents are required to screen their children everyday before sending them to school for any reason. Please notify our campus nurse if your child cannot attend school due to symptoms or exposure to a positive or presumed positive case of COVID-19. Please do not send students if they have been experiencing any of the symptoms in this document:
REMIND CODES FOR 2020-2021 PLEASE JOIN!
To join a class, text the code to 81010
All Students: @20202021m1
Parents: @8g24b8
Leadership: @ea3aadb
ColorGuard: @7ge97g8
UNIFORMS
IF YOU HAVEN’T RETURNED YOUR UNIFORM TO THE BAND HALL - PLEASE DO SO ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOV. 6TH GRADE CHECK!!!!
Pass all your regular credit classes on this date to be eligible for Area Contest AND you will be eligible until January!!!!!!
If you fail a regular credit class on this date, it can make you ineligible for AREA!!!!!!!
Students who fail one or more regular credit classes (doesn’t include most Advanced and all PAP and AP courses) once grades are final, will have to stop participating in band functions (games/contests) at 4:25pm on Nov. 13. This means they cannot go to the game on Nov.20 OR to the UIL Area Contest on Dec. 5th (if we qualify).
All students may participate in Pep Rallies whether they are eligible or not.
All students are eligible to participate in the Nov. 27th game as it is during the holiday week of Thanksgiving and eligibility doesn’t count during that week.
Students who have an Incomplete in Skyward for the 9 weeks have one week to make up their work and get it turned in.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE PARENT HELP IS ESPECIALLY NEEDED IN THE POPCORN BOOTH AT GAMES! (especially for the Nov. 6th game so Senior parents can escort their child during halftime recognitions). We also need to train folks for next year so please volunteer!
Email sharon.cobb@bisd.net to volunteer. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
INDIVIDUAL BAND PICTURES
If your child came in for pictures, they are available! $10 for the photo file. Please bring the order form and payment in an envelope with the child’s name and drop it in the band hall safe.
Links to your child’s photo files are emailed as payments are received. Thank you!
Checks can be made out to Belton Band Boosters.
SAVE THESE DATES:
PLEASE DO NOT PLAN ANYTHING FOR THE ENTIRE DAY ON THESE DATES!
Saturday, November 7 - UIL Region Marching Contest - Robinson, TX.
Saturday, December 5 - UIL Area Marching Contest - Hays CISD, Buda, TX.
Tuesday, December 15 - UIL State Marching Contest - Alamodome, San Antonio, TX. (just in case :)
Rehearsals/Events - 11/2 - 11/13:
*Bring Flip Folders, Fanny Packs, knee pads & Water to every rehearsal*
Monday 11/2- rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - parking lot practice field
Tuesday 11/3- rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - parking lot practice field
Wednesday 11/4 - 3:45pm - 5:45pm - rehearsal, 5:45-6:15PM - Senior Walk-Through practice for Fri. night’s recognitions - ALL IN TIGER STADIUM
*itinerary here: https://www.beltonmarching100.com/itineraries
Thursday 11/5- rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - parking lot practice field
Friday 11/6 - End of 9 weeks eligibility grade check. Pass on this date and stay eligible until January!!!!!
Home Football Game & Senior Night! We will recognize our Seniors during halftime at this game and PLAY OUR SHOW AFTER THE GAME!
*itinerary here: https://www.beltonmarching100.com/itineraries
Saturday 11/7 - Region 8 UIL Marching Contest
*itinerary here: https://www.beltonmarching100.com/itineraries
Monday 11/9 - NO SCHOOL, NO REHEARSAL. M100 Band Booster meeting
Tuesday 11/10 - rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - parking lot practice field
Wednesday 11/11 - rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - TIGER STADIUM (not an early release day for school so we have to rehearse at 4:45pm)
Thursday 11/12 - rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - parking lot practice field
Friday 11/13 - rehearsal 4:45pm-6:45pm - parking lot practice field
(No activities for the M100 on Sat. 11/14 or Sun. 11/15)
SENIOR NIGHT ACTIVITIES AT THE 11/6 GAME
Parents/ family will come down from stands about halfway through the second quarter. Each Senior can have up to 5 family members escort them. Family members will come down to a large gate opening underneath the stands near the men’s restroom. There they will be greeted by a booster parent who will check them off the list and then they’ll be directed to the field. They’ll go behind the band (who is seated in the end zone, near the field house) and toward the visitor side bleachers. They’ll see more people there who will line them up in alpha order at cones for social distancing.
*Masks must be worn at all times by all people – even on the field – per the Dir. of Athletics.
Family members will walk with their child up until they run through the sign, then they’ll walk around the sign and meet them on the other side. They’ll stop on the 50 yd. line and take a picture then be directed to move to a specific area to stand with their child on the field while the other seniors are introduced.
Once over, family members will return to the stands and band members back to our set up in the end zone.
Don’t forget to stay for the performance after the game
All family members must buy a ticket for the game. Tickets stop selling online that night at 9:30pm (if anyone just wants to come for the after the game performance)
EATING BEFORE GAMES
Students - you MUST eat before football games.
IF you can’t get home and can’t get to any food, LET OUR BOOSTERS KNOW so we can order food for you and you can eat at BHS before the game. Mrs. Cobb will send another email before the next game to get orders. Please sign up.
You will see a charge in your Charms account miscellaneous ledger. YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY IN CHARMS! Bring cash or check to me (Mrs. Gill) and I’ll put it in the safe.
NO EATING IN UNIFORM DURING THE GAME. ONLY WATER ALLOWED. (if your child must eat during the game due to medical reasons, please let us know.)
BAND AUDITIONS FOR SPRING 2021
Formal auditions to ensure we have proper placement for the Spring bands
Our band auditions will be done in the form of video recording submissions
Audition music excerpts / instructions will be made available to all students on November 2nd. Hard copies will be available and the information will also be posted to our website.
Auditions will take place during the week of December 7-11.
Schedule changes could occur for Spring 2021 based on the results of these auditions.
MAKE SURE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS CORRECT IN CHARMS PLEASE!!!!
Go to our band website - beltonmarching100.com.
Click the red button on the home page - “Access your Charms account”
Go to Login
Drop down to “Parent/Student/Members”
Your school code is: BeltonBand
Student Area Password is: your child’s student ID OR whatever personal password you have changed it to. If you can’t remember, email shannon.gill@bisd.net and I can reset the password back to your child’s school ID.
ZOOM MEETINGS FOR REMOTE LEARNERS
If your family has chosen for your child not to attend school in person, they will need to log in to their band or colorguard classes daily through Zoom. Links in Schoology.
INSTRUMENT RENTAL FEES
If you are using a school owned instrument (including percussion), you will be assessed an instrument rental fee of $62.50 per instrument per semester. Payments only in the form of cash (in an envelope with student’s name on it) or check made out to Belton HS Band. Payments are deposited into an account to be used for repair and general maintenance on instruments.
If you have questions about how much you owe - please email shannon.gill@bisd.net.
FEES:
1 instrument all year = $125
1 instrument all year + another instrument for one semester = $187.50
1 instrument for one semester only = $62.50
FORMS
CARPOOL OPTIONS
(Password is M100)
COORDINATE SHEETS
https://www.beltonmarching100.com/coordinate-sheets (password is M100)
M100 INSTRUMENTAL PRIVATE LESSON SCHOLARSHIPS!
For access to the Lesson Scholarship Application - please go here: https://www.beltonmarching100.com
You can also find contact information for our Private Lesson Teachers here: https://www.beltonmarching100.com/private-lesson-instructors
PRIVATE LESSONS CAN BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY OR IN PERSON
Parents need to contact lesson teachers directly to set up private lessons.
Lessons are STRONGLY encouraged for musical advancement but ESPECIALLY this year when the amount of time we the directors will spend with students will be greatly reduced (especially in the hybrid model). Thank you!
REHEARSALS, GAMES, CONTESTS
ON-GOING FUNDRAISERS
NEW HATS & CLEAR STADIUM BAGS THAT WILL BE REQUIRED THIS FALL TO ENTER TIGER STADIUM. Find them here:
MASKS!!!! We receive 25% of all sales. The link to the masks is
Thank you and please stay safe and healthy!