AMB WEEKLY UPDATE 8-25-2025

AMB WEEKLY UPDATE 8-25-2025

Greetings, eagle family! This is the big week! This Friday is our first football game and our first major performance of the year. It's a big week for everyone, so it's really important that all students and parents PLEASE READ the following information in full detail.

GRADES: This is the last week until the first progress report goes out. Teachers will be accepting work up to Friday, and then your grade will be published to your first progress report on the following week. Reminder that Texas state law regarding no-pass-no-play applies to the 6th week. If a student fails a class on the 6th week of the grading period, they will be completely knocked out of eligibility to participate in the program. 

PRIVATE LESSONS: All AHS students interested in private lessons, or currently enrolled in private lessons, are required to complete the Private Lesson Student Enrollment Form [Click Here]. We strongly encourage participation in private lessons - improvement in individual instrument performance enhances the overall music production of all our ensembles. We will send out information regarding private lesson scholarships at a later date.

FIRST FOOTBALL GAME: This week, the band will perform on August 29th Friday vs. Lamar High School away at Houston ISD stadium. An itinerary went out last week regarding all of the details for the football game. Students will be primarily wearing their red polo band shirts all day - pep rally game. There is a typo on the itinerary - it will be the red polo shirt for the pep rally and the football game uniform.

GAME TICKET INFORMATION: More information will be sent out later through the band app regarding purchasing tickets for the football game. 

BUS LANE AFTER THE GAME: when picking your child up from the end of the football game at Atascocita High School, please make sure to not park in the bus lane. Multiple buses will be attempting to drive through to get to the band hall. We kindly ask all parents to park in parking spaces in the parking lot and not in the bus ramp.

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE AND CALENDAR: The rehearsal schedule is changing this week due to Labor Day weekend. This week, the students will rehearsal the following days and times: 

• Monday: 5:30 to 8:30 featuring our guest consultant
• Tuesday: 5:30 to 7:30 (30 minutes was shifted from here to Monday)
• Wednesday: no rehearsal - tutorials and appointments recommended
• Thursday: 5:30 to 8:00 with Patriettes dance team
• Friday: game day!
• Saturday: no rehearsal - enjoy your labor day weekend!

The rehearsal schedule up to the end of marching and football season can be found at our website: www.atascocitaband.com and click on CALENDAR. 

CONCESSION STANDS: The Boosters will be sending out information soon regarding concession stand volunteer sign up. We are kindly asking for each family to at least sign up for at least two or three concession stand spots each year. Volunteering for the concession stands is an expectation of the program (in the same way of being a snack parent or dugout mom/dad for little league baseball). We always need serious help. We understand that some families are not in a situation where they can sign up, but there are so many ways that you can still help! Email [email protected] for more information.

FLIP FOLDER: All students need to purchase their own flip folder before the Friday game next week. These folders hold their music in the stands, and it’s a very important part of their equipment. Click here for a link to Amazon for an example of what to get.

LYRE: All students also need to purchase the thing that holds the flip folder, which is call the lyre. Here’s an example of one for saxophone - you just need to find one for your instrument. Flutes and French Horns will have the lyres that wrap around their wrist.

PEP RALLY: is next Friday August 29th during 3rd period. Outfit for this is PEP RALLY OUTFIT:

• Red AMB polo shirt
• Blue Jeans
• Tucked in with a belt
• Tennis shoes (the marching shoes are fine, not required)

Then the football performance outfit is the same red shirt, with black band shorts and black MTX marching shoes.

ITEMS TO PURCHASE: all students should have purchased their blue band shirts, red polo shirts, black marching shoes, and your annual dues. All students should have purchased their items before the first football game on August 29th. If you missed out on the cutoff date to purchase items, then we might have some extras in our inventory to sell. 

IMPORTANT! BAND DUES! ALL BAND DUES OF $350 ARE DUE BY THE FIRST FOOTBALL GAME TO BE ELIGIBLE TO MARCH ON THE FIELD. If you need any assistance at all or need help with a payment plan, please reach out to our band booster president at [email protected]

Last call, if you are new to the program, you need to REGISTER for band! Go to https://www.atascocitaband.com/register.html#/ and go through all of the steps.

Please go to https://www.atascocitaband.com/updates#/ to review all of the weekly updates for the band program. And also please download the BAND App and get signed up for all of the band updates to your mobile device for your kiddos’ band news. More information on the BAND App and how to sign up can be found here: https://www.atascocitaband.com/step-7-join-the-band-app.html#/

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