January 30, 2023

Greetings friends! One more week until Spring Break v 1.0. The band directors will be out of the office starting February 2nd and will be returning on February 13th after attending the Disney trip with the students and the Texas Music Educators Association clinic and convention in San Antonio. This week, the big item is…

DISNEY TRIP! It’s that time friends. Please make sure that you have access to the Big Trip page at www.atascocitaband.com and download the full itinerary of our trip.

• Thursday: students attending the trip will arrive at Atascocita High School at 3AM.
• Instruments: Once there, they will place their instruments in the designated “Disney Area”, grab their suitcases, and load up the busses. The TMF itinerary states that we need to be there by 4AM, so that’s our target arrival time at the airport. Students will not be traveling to Disney with their instruments. 
• Uniforms: I need to clarify, since there’s varying information out there. I’ve changed a few things.
  • On Thursday, we will wear special Disney shirts that came with your package. It will be a neon-blue colored Disney shirt that will make all students easily identifiable.
  • On Friday, Saturday, and Monday, students are free to wear whatever they like as long as it is in HISD dress code. Check the weather.
  • On Sunday, students will wear their blue AMB shirt. I changed my mind on this one. Instead of red polo shirts, I decided that students can wear their blue AMB shirts since they are more comfortable.
• Tuesday midnight: we will arrive back at Atascocita High School from a yellow bus pending the flight arrival time. So it’s an AHS departure and an AHS arrival.

Let’s get past the Disney trip, and then we can focus on the next item for us which will be SOLO AND ENSEMBLE CONTEST February 17th and 18th. Student performance times have been posted on the band whiteboard. Percussion performs on the 17th and woodwinds/brass perform on the 18th. If a student opted for the state track, they perform at Humble High School on the 17th. We will have all the information when we get back from the break. Until then, HAPPY DISNEY TRIP everyone! We’ll see you in Florida!