Belton Middle School Band

Greetings, hope you had a great holiday! Just a reminder that tomorrow (Monday the 30th) is the last day to check out chocolate for our fundraiser. We will have our last cash prize drawing at the end of school on Tuesday and give out a $20 bill to each of the 5 who are selected.

ALL money is due by this Wednesday (December 2). Remember you can’t returned open boxes of chocolate, so “buy” the rest of your box and turn in that money on Wednesday. Keep selling as long as you need to replace what you bought. Let’s finish strong and thanks for your help!

Please note this message is intended for parents and students of Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band:

We want to be sure you have our upcoming Holiday Concert marked on your calendar at home.  The date is Monday, December 7 in the evening at the Belton High School Performing Arts Center (PAC).  We will give you definite times later, but we wanted to make sure you knew about this date since we cannot recreate a public performance.  We finally get to perform live in public again!

All students who have paid for their band uniform shirt should have received one by now.  If your child has not yet received theirs, kindly send $20 with them to school this week.  At the concert, students will wear their band shirt tucked into black dress pants (not jeans) with black dress shoes and black calf-length socks that serves as their band uniform.  Yes, tucking their shirt in is part of a well-kept appearance for our performances, and is required for our uniform for all of our students.  Young gentlemen will need to wear a black dress belt.  Jazz Band students will wear their jazz uniform shirt for this performance.

If your student does not have either of these items (such as black pants, black calf-length socks, black dress shoes, and/or black dress belt for gentlemen) please use this upcoming Thanksgiving break to get them for their band uniform they will wear throughout this year.  Again, this is a required part of our band uniform.  Young ladies need to tuck in their shirt as well, but do not need to wear a belt.  Consult our Band Handbook online for additional details.

We will need our remote virtual learners to come to school and physically participate in our class rehearsals in the Band Hall if they plan on performing at our concert.  Please contact us if this is not the case.

Thank you for your support, and let us know if you have any questions.

Please note this message is only intended for students and parents of our Beginning Band:

We wanted to make you aware of our upcoming Holiday Concert at the Belton High School Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Monday, December 7 in the evening.  Finally, our students get to perform live at their first band concert!!  We will give you definite times later, but we wanted to make sure this date was marked on your calendar at home since we cannot recreate a public performance.

All students who have paid for their band uniform t-shirt should have received one by now.  If your child has not yet received theirs, kindly send $10 with them to school this week.  At the concert, students will wear their band shirt tucked into jeans with closed-toed shoes that serves as their band uniform.  Yes, tucking their shirt in is part of a well-kept appearance for our performances, and is required for our uniform for all of our students.

Young gentlemen will need to wear a belt.  If your son does not have one, please use this upcoming Thanksgiving break to get them one for their band uniform that they will wear throughout this year.  Again, this is a required part of our band uniform.  Young ladies need to tuck in their shirt as well, but do not need to wear a belt.

In order to prepare for our upcoming performance, we will be having 2 required group rehearsals at school so we can put all 8 of our beginner classes together to perform as one Beginner’s Ensemble.  These will occur Thursday and Friday, December 3 and 4 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm both days.  These rehearsals will start at the beginning of our 8th period STRIPES class and continue after school until 4:30pm.  Parents will need to pick up their student at the bus loop by the side awning entrance near the Cafeteria at that time.  

We will need all of our remote virtual learners to come to school and physically participate in both of these rehearsals in the Band Hall if they plan on performing at our concert.  Please contact us if this is not the case.

Thank you for your support, and let us know if you have any questions.

Here are a few details regarding our World’s Finest Chocolate Fundraiser that starts this Tuesday.  Students must turn in this parent permission slip before they will be checked out chocolate.  

• Starting on Tuesday, students can check out their first box of chocolate to sell.  Please help them understand that we are loaning them $60 worth of chocolate per box when we do this, and the $60 must be turned in using the envelope provided in each box before we will check them out more chocolate.  

• Each day starting at 3:35pm, students may come to the Band Hall to check out their box.  They must have permission from their STRIPES teacher to do so, and we will inform the teachers of this.  Students should be patient as we have many students participating from all 3 grade levels, and each student must sign out their box.

• Students CANNOT sell chocolate at school from the hours of 7:00am to 4:00pm as per state nutrition guidelines.  If a student is attending an after-school event after 4:00pm on campus and wishes to sell chocolate there, they MUST keep their box in their band locker during the school day.  Students caught walking around during school with their chocolate box will be discontinued from the fundraiser.

• Cash or checks made out to BMS with a valid phone number may used.  No coins, please.  Help them double-check to make sure there is a total of $60 in each envelope, and they write their name and the amount on the outside of the envelope. 

• Starting Wednesday, students should turn in their money envelope to a director BEFORE SCHOOL during their Advisory time from 7:30-8:05am before they report to 1st period.  We don’t want students walking around campus with their chocolate money in their backpack.  When a student turns in all $60 in their money envelope, they are eligible to check out another box at 3:35pm that same day.  We encourage all of our students to sell at least 2 boxes of chocolate.  

• Parents may send a written note with their student or send us an email if they wish to check out more than one box at a time.  This is with the understanding that we will NOT accept any opened boxes of chocolate, and that each box checked out must have $60 returned by Wednesday, December 2.

• Starting on Wednesday, a drawing from those who have turned in their chocolate money will be done every A day for five $20 bills.  The grand prize will be done after Wednesday, December 2 for those students who have turned in all of their money for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place sellers to win $100, $80, and $40, respectively.  Students must turn in all of their money to be eligible for cash prizes.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and we hope your student decides to participate as we are a new band program at a new school with very little in our Activity account.  This fundraiser will be used for student awards and band activities.  Let us know if you have any questions.

Starting on Tuesday, we will be selling World’s Finest Chocolate as our fundraiser to help build up our Band Activity Account for student awards and band activities. Click here to find the parent permission form that is due Monday, November 16 in order to check out chocolate on Tuesday, November 17. Please read all of the details on the form before signing up.

We encourage all of our students to participate, and email a director if you have any questions.