Exhibition Week!!!!

We will be in costume for both performances scheduled next week...Tuesday night at CRIMSON CAVALCADE and Saturday night at the JEFCOED BAND JAMBOREE!!! SO EXCITED!!! Guard will practice Monday (5:30-8 pm) and Thursday (afterschool til 5 OR 6-8 pm) to put the final touches on the show!! We will have more details ready to go on Monday. Enjoy the game tonight, have a great weekend, and let's all come back ready to show off what hard work and a great attitude can create!!! #brave

Game Weeks 4 & 5

Updated RED Guard Schedule is going home with the Tigs today...watch for a RED packet of info with the details!! Great job by our guard last Friday night...so excited about exhibition & jamboree week ahead!! Please note a few new things that should help the group experience go more smoothly & then as always the basics for review... 1. Every tidbit of info for the Guard is here on the blog or via mass text. If it is listed/posted/sent then each girl is responsible for making it happen. The opposite is also true, if it is not explained somewhere on the blog or in a note or in a text girls obviously will not be held responsible...we are not trying to trick anyone...haha...just trying to get you all the info you need when you need it. 2. Captains and their family members are asked not to respond to calls, emails, or texts related to things explained via methods listed above. Simply put...it is not fair for their senior experience/personal time to be clouded with questions about things already detailed for everyone in a note, on the blog, or via text. 3. We have had home games and away games so the basic processes for operation should be evident. Directors will always text when the blog is posted or updated during the week, they will email girls and parents only in event of urgent or emergency situations. 4. Our practice plans for this week are different...see red packet sent home today!! Review of basic info... No tardies, checkins, or checkouts on Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays without a doctor's excuse. School, band, guard rules apply. Guard gloves are needed at every practice/game/performance. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays during 7th period girls need athletic type shoes and practice clothes. Tuesday nights, Thursday afterschools girls will also need weather appropriate practice clothes and athletic type shoes. No boyfriends or visitors at rehearsals. Friday dress/hair/makeup & any pep rally plans will be announced during 7th period during each week...girls must listen in class and are expected to follow verbal instructions provided. Spanx type garments should be worn as needed to eliminate bounce, jiggle, and rolls. Bodystocking was provided for warmth and will be worn with costume when needed later in the season. Jazz shoes should be wiped clean. Pep/uniform/costume should be spot cleaned only. Guard bag should always contain poms, vet black blanket, and clear ponchos. Game/Contest day nails must be clear or french manicure. No jewelry or visible tattoos on game/contest days. Tigerettes are required to be in the company of at least two other guard members at all times at all rehearsals & games/contests...both home & away...there is safety in numbers. Before games, rehearsals, and for contests girls are given a specific “report time” . Tigs are not permitted to stay on campus afterschool without a Director. All must leave campus and are not permitted to return to campus until 10 minutes prior to report time...no exceptions!! Girls can’t be on campus unsupervised. If you live too far to make it back you will need to find a friend who lives closer to go home with that afternoon. Home Games...girls are dismissed from the band section at the end of the game. No early departures. Away Games/Contests...members may be checked off the Guard bus at the end of the event. No early departures. Parent/adult is required to go to our bus for check off. Tigs are not permitted to check off our bus and ride a different band bus home. If you ride home on a band bus it is the same one you came on & you may be expected to help unload the truck. Ride should be waiting when we get back to the school. Tigs may only be checked off the bus by their parent or by an ADULT designated in writing by their parent. We are unable to verify notes turned in so please know that any student providing a “fake” note would be written up for providing false information. Cell calls & text can't be used to arrange check off. Cell Phones & Bus seating (explained to girls 7th period prior to the first away game). Always plan to have a bus partner, seniors are the only ones permitted to sit by themselves when we travel...goal is nobody leftout or alone. Cell phones are put away most of the time when we travel to avoid lack of focus, lack of group involvement, etc. Parents are welcomed to observe Tuesday night rehearsals. Please make sure that noise is kept to a minimum since we are in the process of instructing & learning. Also know that observers should sit in the end sections of the stadium only. The middle section is used by directors for instruction during the rehearsal. Students only please in the bandroom or school buildings on practice or event nights. Reminders... 1. Spring Trip info and deposit payments should be due to Mr. Henson in October...will post that info when it is confirmed. 2. Crimson Cavalcade is a free event. Band Jamboree tickets are on sale in the band office. $5 per ticket. All proceeds go to OGHS Band. (If you buy at the gate you pay more and the money goes to GHS Band) 3. Home Concession...please see Mr. Henson for the work schedule. 4. WG...invitiations will go out next week. 3 signed/notarized forms & $300 fee via bank check or money order is due on October 1st at the required meeting. No exception. Note: exhibitions are always crowded...the crowd is always huge so the girls will not have time or ability to search out parents for money. Parents should arrive early if they want front side seating. Loaded Guard Bag includes charged cell phone. Last but certainly not least... We thank you parents who go so far above and beyond to make your daughter's group...our Tigerettes at OGHS...run smoothly and efficiently. We appreciate your respect of & understanding of & compliance with group plans/procedures as well as your ability to go with the flow. Our goal is the same as most parents we feel sure...we want the guard program to produce smart, sweet, selfless girls who are responsible, caring, independent, and who display strong talents on field, in the classroom, and in their everyday lives. With two "hectic feeling" weeks ahead of us we ask that you please remember nothing is ever planned to cause student/parent problems, every decision made is well thought out and choices made are those that we feel are the best possible for the good of the group and each of it's members. Please remember too that proper rest, proper nutrition, and good hydration will go a long way to keep everyone healthy and happy so they can enjoy the fruits of their labor. :0) Philippians 4:7...And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Game Week 3

Practice afterschool until 5 today. Booster meeting tonight at 7 for parents interested. Pizza Kit orders due to Donna/Rebecca today or tomorrow!! Pep Rally Friday at 2:30. Report time Friday night is 6 p.m. Girls will be told what to wear to school Friday during 7th period. Dress for game is the same as previous weeks with the addition of white hair bow that will be given out to girls at practice today. Mark your family calendar...CONFIRMED...we WILL have two REAL performances the last week of September. On Tuesday, September 24 our band will perform at CRIMSON CAVALCADE sponsored by the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band at Tuscaloosa County HS/free admission...time TBA. And on Saturday, September 28th we will perform again at the JefCoEd Band Jamboree/paid admission...time and location TBA. (Please note as well that Thursday practice of that week could be either afternoon or night depending on show progress) And last but not least don't forget that Winter Guard Invitations will go out the last week of September...the required WG meeting will be Tuesday, October 1st...$300 WG fee via bank check or money order and all notarized forms will be due at that meeting!! (Guard Girls will need to have decided what they plan to do after fall band ends at that point...the three choices...do Winter Guard if invited, or do concert/symphonic band, or leave the program at the end of this semester in December.)

Game Week 2

sorry still can't get spacing to work on this blog...so sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT JOB LAST FRIDAY NIGHT...CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS SHOW COME TO LIFE!! ACT TEST info was sent via Remind 101. Guard Girls are REQUIRED to sell at least one kit each, selling more would be greatly appreciated. Order forms along with payments are due to Donna & Rebecca on or before September 13th. Kits will be delivered the following week. Practice swap info this week was sent on Remind 101...shorts/tees Thursday night 5 to dark p.m. Practice Blacks will be required when the weather cools off!! Pep Rally info was sent via Remind 101 earlier this week. No tardies, checkins, or checkouts on Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays! Absences on those days will require a doctor or dental excuse, a funeral excuse, or written documentation of a non-recurring family emergency. FYI...JefCoEd Code of Conduct says only 6 parent excuses per semester permitted. YOU HAVE ONLY A COUPLE DAYS TO GET EXCUSES IN BEFORE THE COMPUTER WILL LOCK IN AS UNEXCUSED...PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR NOTES IN TO MRS. NICHOLS THE DAY YOU RETURN AFTER AN ABSENCE. Plan ahead for Friday...no colored polish...clear or French manicure only. No jewelry. No visible piercings or tattoos. Friday afternoon report time is 4:15 p.m...arrive wearing OGHS uniform and jazz shoes...spanx to remove rolls/jiggle/bounce. We had some girls whose undies cut into them making lines across hips & bottom...boo hiss...please fix that by going seamless in the correct size/shape!! Full makeup, hair just like program pics, with guard gloves. Black guard bag...poms, clear disposable ponchos, and stain stick inside!! Vets bring black Tig blankets!! Tigerettes are required to ride the bus to the game. They may be checked off by their Parent or by another adult designated in writing by their parent at the end of the game. Tigs riding the bus home are NOT permitted to switch buses...they go to the game and return to the school on the same bus!! They MUST have a ride waiting on them at school when the buses return...again...we can't leave until they do!! Tigerettes are expected to behave in an appropriate manner at all times. In or out of uniform every choice you make has a consequence. Do not jeopardize your reputation, or the reputation of our Guard, by participating in public displays of affection (PDA), ignore and do not respond to ugly talk or gestures. All school rules, band rules, guard rules apply at school events/activities. Pay attention, make sure your words and your actions stay positive at all times. Tigerettes dress alike every Friday. Assigned dress is REQUIRED participation...all day...no exceptions. Make sure you listen 7th period to what the Seniors ask of you...again ...plan well, and do what is expected. Before games and rehearsals...members are given a specific “report time”. TIGS are not permitted to stay on campus afterschool. All must leave campus and are not permitted to return to campus until 10 minutes prior to report time...no exceptions!! You can’t be on campus unsupervised. If you live too far to make it back you will need to find a friend who lives closer to go home with Friday afternoons. At games...Tigerettes have assigned seats in the stands and will remain in the correct order the entire time!! No unauthorized food/drinks/gum/candy in the stands. NO APPLICATION OF MAKEUP OR HAIR PRODUCTS!! Visitors to the band section are expected to speak and move on. Restroom visits must be taken care of prior to game & during third quarter break...this is a privilege...NO PDA...you must be with two other Guard members even at home games. Your 1st priority on break is to go to the restroom and get in line at the concessions stand...be responsible!! Tigerettes report back to the stands one minute prior to Band Director’s called time. Tigerettes do not leave games early...they will be dismissed from the band section at the end of the game. Tigerettes are required to be in the company of at least two other Guard members at all times at all rehearsals & games...both home & away...there is safety in numbers...safety from vultures and also safety from the rumor mill!!! Students only in the bandroom and school buildings on Tuesday, Friday, or Saturday nights. We thank you in advance for your cooperation regarding policy issues and ask that you remember they are not intended to cause student/parent problems, but are put in place to help ensure the safety of all participants and the smooth operation of our group as a whole. REMINDERS... Doctor’s excuses...a doc’s note is required for any rehearsal missed due to illness. We always follow doctor’s orders...without a doc’s release or instructions we can’t let you practice or perform. Tigerette clothes/items...repeat of instruction during summer camp...DO NOT wear or carry any of our new items (uniform, costume, or pep) until your Captains or Directors instruct you to do so...we must keep everything fresh/new for this fall. Tigerettes are the only people who should be wearing Tigerette/Guard items. Arriving & Leaving on time...make sure your parents and/or your ride know the correct times you are to arrive as well as the correct time to pick you up...we can’t leave til you do!!! Spring Trip information will be coming up in September...expect deposits & forms to be due in October!! 2014 Winter Guard invitations will be given out the last week of September, the required meeting/notarized forms/full payment will be due Tues/Oct 1st. 2013 Fall Contest Schedule Exhibition TBA on Sept 24th still pending. JefCoEd Band Jamboree on Sept 28th is confirmed. Hoover Contest on Oct 19th @ Hoover Met Stadium is confirmed. BOA Super Regional on Oct 26th @ Georgia Dome is confirmed.