I hope this message finds you well! We survived the first week of school! This week will be our final week before varsity football games begin their regular season next week. We will host our annual Meet the Band performance Wednesday night at 8 pm. This will also be our final week of being on a different schedule than normal for our rehearsals, with Monday and Tuesday 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, and Wednesday we’ll start up at 6:30 pm and finish after Meet the Band. Please note that the following week, the week of 8/26, we will resume our typical school schedule of 6:30-8:30 Mondays and Thursdays, and 4-6pm on Wednesdays. (We adjust Wednesdays to 4-5:30 when students start having more church commitments)

We will have letters with assigned days for concession stand volunteers at Meet the Band on Wednesday, August 21^st. Also, just to put it on the radar, we’ll be needing all students to have a parent or adult volunteer on their behalf to help with the Owl Marching Invitational on September 28^th, and the UIL Area 2A Marching Contest on November 2^nd. Please help us make plans for those! We now have our Sign-Up Genius live for people to sign up for a spot to help! https://tinyurl.com/3vmmu8wz

This Wednesday, from 4pm-7pm in the JH Band Hall we will host our annual Band Drive evening for students to get any supplies and rentals completed. Hillje Music will be there that evening to help with that. More information on that will be discussed in class this week. Please feel free to reach out to Mr. Williams or myself on any additional questions on starting band with beginning band students!

Fees for high school band are due at this time. See the section below for more information on those. If they haven’t been turned in, please reach out to us so we know when to expect them. We’ll work with financial difficulties, and we can work to figure out a payment plan in those instances. We do need to bring in missing fees as soon as possible though in order to order all of the supplies for the students!

I encourage all students to please be on our Remind account by texting the phone number 81010 with the message @thespiri . Parents are welcome to join as well (Just keep in mind you will get every message we send) 

Fall Fees

Fall Band Fees info:

$80 All Returning Marchers Except Guard who don’t need shoes.
OR $125 (total) for Freshmen and Anyone who needs shoes

$580 in Total for Guard (Most paid only the $300 in May) Guard does not pay the other fees.

Please contact me if you have questions about fees or need to work out a payment plan. We work with families on these as much as we possibly can, but do need to get them in so we may order supplies for the marching season. We ONLY accept Check or Money Orders in the Band Hall – Please NO CASH!

Summer Band Schedule – Week 3

Day:	Event:
Monday:	Outside Marching Rehearsal: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Parking Lot
Tuesday:	Outside Marching Rehearsal: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Parking Lot
Wednesday:	Outside Marching Rehearsal: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – StadiumMeet the Band: 8:00 pm Owl Stadium
Thursday:	Scrimmage Help Needed in Concession Stand Beginning around 5:30 pm
Friday:	No Rehearsal

Upcoming Events:

Day:	Event:	Time:
Wednesday	Beginning Band Instrument Drive	4 pm–7 pm
Wednesday	Meet the Band	8 pm
August 30th:	First Football Game vs. Ben Bolt at Home
September 2nd:	Labor Day Marching Rehearsal (Mandatory)	6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
September 6th:	Odem vs. Falfurrias (Falfurrias)
September 13th:	Odem vs. Aransas Pass (Home)
September 20th:	Odem vs. Skidmore-Tynan (Skidmore)
September 21st:	All-Region Jazz Auditions (Robstown)
September 24th:	All-Area/State Jazz Auditions (TAMUK)
September 27th:	Odem vs. Hebbronville (Home)
September 28th:	3rd Annual Owl Marching Invitational
September 30th:	Teacher Workday Band Rehearsal (Mandatory!)	6:30 pm – 8:30pm

Thank you for your help and support of these amazing students! Please contact us if you have any questions!