July 7th-July 11th

Good Morning!! I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer so far. 

Next week we have the first week of band camp for everyone. Camp begins with everyone in the band room right at 8am. Bellow is the schedule for the first week of camp. 

Monday and Tuesday

• 8:00 Meet in band room

• 8:15 winds outside for fundamentals, percussion and guard inside

• 12:00 Lunch

• 1:30 Winds in cafeteria with warm-up music

• 5:00 Dismiss

Wednesday - Friday

·                     8:00 Meet in band room

·                     8:15 Everyone outside for fundamentals

·                     12:00 Lunch

·                     1:30 Winds in cafeteria with warm-up music

·                     5:00 Dismiss

Things you will NEED for the first week of band camp

• Tennis shoes

• Red gallon or half gallon RED igloo or coleman water jug

• Music

• Pencil

• Sun Screen

• Black Towel

You can bring a lawn chair if you would like and some snacks. 

You need to get outside this week and get used to the heat, we will be outside in it every morning. 

If you would like you can bring some snacks in a cooler to have while we are outside. 

Make sure that you are eating breakfast, nothing too greasy and stay away from milk/dairy products. 

Here is the schedule for the second week of band camp

Monday - Thursday

• 8:00 Meet in band room

• 8:15 Everyone outside for drill

• 12:00 Lunch

• 1:30 sectionals everyone inside

• 4:00 Dinner Break

• 6:00 Outside music and drill

• 8:30/9:00 Dismiss

Friday will be the same schedule but we will end at 12 unless we finish everything on Thursday. 

You will NEED the same things on the second week as the first week but you will also need 5 plain white Tshirts. We will be writing our drill number on them so that it is easier and faster to tell when someone is out of their dot while setting. 

We will also have dress up days that will take place every day the second week. You will need your white tshirt for after we tabulate the dress up points. 

The next band fee is due no later than July 18th. 

For those who signed up for DCI your ticket cost is $40 and it is due by July 18th also. 

If there are any questions about band camp please do not hesitate to ask. 

Disney information:

1. Once clicking the link below, select “Register now” to proceed.  You will have to create an account with your email and create a password for the portal.  (In some cases, school domain emails may be restricted, please use a Gmail or other email.)  You will then receive an email to verify your account before you can continue (Sometimes it may be in your spam folder).   

2. Everyone participating on the trip must register with the portal.  For anyone under 18 years of age, a parent or guardian must complete the registration on their behalf.  Multiple people from the same family on the same trip can register together so they have a single log-in.  (i.e. a dad chaperoning on a trip with their child or both parents with a child on the same trip).  You still register each person and have to select the packages each one is doing and complete all the information required for each participant.

3. Complete all the required information necessary.  (personal data, emergency data, etc.)

4. Choose the applicable package for the trip of the person you are registering.

5. Choose an insurance option: Enhanced, Standard or Decline.  You must choose one of the 3 to complete your registration.  The insurance options will be shown as Enhanced Coverage, Standard Coverage, or Decline.  It is encouraged to select and purchase insurance to protect your trip.  If purchasing the Enhanced Coverage, you must purchase within 20 days of registration and deposit.  Following insurance options, you will continue to the page for setting up your credit card or ACH Transaction options for payment.  If you are not selecting insurance, there will be an option to decline and proceed to the payment arrangements.

6. While registering, members will get to the point of completing their info and selecting insurance and a screen is indicating you are almost complete, you just need to “pay the deposit.”  The portals have been set up to combine the trip deposit and the insurance together as the ‘deposit.’  The portal has been set-up with the required deposit amount due at registration and the payment dates for additional payments.

7. The portal will show a screen where the total trip cost is displayed with the insurance amount with a ‘proceed to payment’ option.  This is not the payment selection.  When you proceed to make the payment, the next screen is where you enter your payment method (credit card or ACH) and then the last screen will show ‘Select payment’ options of paying balance, paying deposit or specific amount.  The deposit due amount should reflect the amount for the trip deposit and insurance.  You can select any of the three options based on your payment amount you desire to pay.  You are required to agree to and sign all required documents.

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Once you have completed the steps listed, your registration is complete!  You will receive updates or additional information required for the trip to the email used in the registration process.  Please Note: You may select Autopay to avoid having to login and make additional payments.  You will receive reminders of the upcoming payment, and that the autopay will process the payment on the scheduled date.  (please note: ** All refund requests/cancellations will incur a minimum 4% reduction in possible refunds - Covers payment processing fees **)

​Joseph Agee

Director of Bands

Gibson Co. HS

Dyer, TN 38330