Week 10 - No rehearsals!
Year 6 students or any student who will not be continuing band in 2024 is to return their hired instrument to the band room by Tuesday week 10.
All continuing students are able to keep hired instruments over the holiday break. ( You could even play it still!)
Reminder! Please send your child to rehearsals with a display folder each week.
SAVE THE DATE!!!
Exciting term 1 news already!!!
Band camp has been booked in for Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th March!!! We will be heading back to the same venue at Rathmines and will follow a similar program to the camp run this year.
This is a return to our regular camp time in term 1 which allows us to consolidate our bands playing early in the year.
A deposit will be due in the first few weeks of term 1 and final payments by week 7 of term 1. It is predicted that the cost will be $150 for overnight campers and $115 for day trippers.
Year 2 students are day trippers and all other students are overnight campers regardless of whether they are junior or senior band players. At the start of term 1 all the training band students will be referred to as Junior band, so this camp is for all our new players too!
Music tutors
Please ensure you contact your child's tutor if they are unable to attend a scheduled lesson. There are a few tutors adding new days and times to work around school events and new student numbers, thank you tutors and families for being flexible!
Each tutor has a different end time for this term, please contact them directly if you need clarification of lesson day and times.
New Band members
Training band has enjoyed a wonderful start to band rehearsals and tutor lessons over the past few weeks. If your child is looking at continuing in band in 2024 they are welcome to keep their hired instrument over the holidays. If they are not continuing please return the instrument to the band room by Tuesday week 10.
Fees are now displayed in the school bytes system for new members. We will continue to add new students as they join.
For anyone else wanting to sign up, the school has almost exhausted its collection of instruments for hire! There is still 1 trombone, a french horn and 3 saxophones available.
These instruments will be available from term 1 2024 to hire.
If you have your own instrument you are very welcome to sign up at any time from the start of term 1, 2024.
Fees - 2023 Junior and Senior Band - members from all of 2023 school year.
Fees for term 4 are now due:
Individual reminders were sent home a few weeks ago for those families who are not up to date with fees for 2023.
It is very important that fees are up to date for 2023 as the band will transition to a new payment procedure in 2024.
From 2024 all band fees will be collected through the school office and school bytes system to stream line payments.
Senior band - $65
Junior Band - $55
Yearly instrument hire fee - $100 - only for members who hire from the school and take the instrument home - clarinets, flutes, trumpets, saxophones, trombones, bass guitar.
Please use your child's name as the reference, eg ScottT1fees
Example of fees for term :
Junior band member playing the clarinet and hiring from the school. Term 1 fees: $55 plus instrument hire fee for 2023 of $100. Total $155.
An instrument hire fee is only payable once per year. Please ignore if you paid.
Remember! The junior and senior band collects fees separate to the school, see bank details below.
Caves Beach PS Concert Band
BSB: 062820 Account: 00903319
