Trenton R-IX Instrumental Music Department

5th Grade Band Syllabus 2020 - 2021

Mr. Stewart
Director of Bands
estewart@trentonr9.k12.mo.us
(660) 359-4328

Please read this handbook carefully because you will be expected to know, understand,
and abide by all guidelines contained herein and any verbal regulations that may be
established.

Our Mission:
The Trenton R-IX Instrumental Music Department is dedicated to providing outstanding
musical experiences and opportunities to its students while helping them grow into
responsible, mature adults. To make these experiences successful, we require
discipline, organization, and commitment to the program. Being a part of our
organization is to be seen as an honor and students will be expected to help serve as
role models for the school and other organizations within it. As a result of our high
expectations, discipline, leadership, and social opportunities, the students have the
opportunity to develop valuable life skills such as a positive self-image, time
management skills, confidence, poise, responsibility, and loyalty as well as the musical
abilities needed to be a successful musician.
Our Goals:
● To provide a comprehensive knowledge of music through performance, creation,
and promotion of music.
● To provide an environment that promotes and encourages life-long learning and
personal, as well as professional, growth.
● To create an environment that provides all students with a sense of community
and loyalty to an organization bigger than themselves.
● To provide an opportunity for students to develop as disciplined, organized and
mature adults.
● To allow students to express themselves in a different, creative manner through
the means of music.
● To reach full potential in all aspects of students’ lives through the use of music.

Conduct and Appearance

As a member of the Trenton Middle School Band, you are a very visible
representative of Trenton Middle School and Trenton, Missouri. Please conduct
yourself at all times in a meaningful and positive manner that will give credit to our
school, band, and our community. Conduct and appearance at any class rehearsals
and performance shall be in good taste. Getting along with each other in our complex
society is indeed a difficult task. However, you have the obligation to respect the rights
of others, and to conduct yourself in a mature and responsible manner. All behaviors
contained in the Trenton Middle School Student Handbook will be followed and
observed.

Attendance Policy
You are expected to attend all class rehearsals and performances. Exceptions
from rehearsals are excused absences. Performances are worth 100 points and are
equivalent to a final test.
In case of serious illness or death in your immediate family, a phone call from
your parent or guardian will be necessary to establish the reason for your absence at a
performance. In the above circumstances, if a phone call is not possible, then please
present a note upon your return. If this note cannot be presented in advance of the
absence, it is to be furnished the next day school is in session or the next day you are in
school.
Instrument Identification Policy
Each privately owned instrument is to be identified by displaying a leather or
plastic identification tag fastened to the instrument case. The tag should include the
student’s name, address, city/state/zip, and Trenton Middle School. It is also a good
idea to write your instrument's serial number on the tag to help if your instrument gets
separated from its case.

School-Owned Instrument Policy

You will be required to sign an instrument check out form Proper maintenance of
the instrument is solely up to you, and is your responsibility to make sure it stays in
good working order and is properly cleaned and stored. If you have been assigned a
school-owned instrument, accessories, or equipment to use during the school year, you
will be responsible for what is checked out to you.
An instrument checkout form will be kept on file, and will contain the name,
model and serial number of the instrument, your name as the person to whom it is
checked out, a place for you to sign your name, and a place for your parent or guardian
to sign. A school owned instrument, equipment, or accessories that is lost, stolen, kept,
misplaced, destroyed, damaged, etc. while it is checked out to you will be handled on
an individual basis, depending on the circumstances under which the incident in
question occurred. However, should negligence or other misuse or abuse of the
instrument, equipment, or accessories be evident, total or partial repair or replacement
will be at your expense.

GRADE DETERMINATION
Grades in band class are given according to participation, attitude, improvement, and
test grades.
Class Participation:​ 5 points will be awarded daily for students who come to band
prepared and have a positive attitude, positive behavior, and a good work ethic.
Weekly Practice Log: ​ 5 points
Playing Tests​: 10 points
Winter/Spring Concert:​ 100 points
Members are expected to be at all rehearsals and performances. Being late for a
performance will take off 25 percent of the daily or performance grade. excused
absences must be cleared with the band director before the date of the absence.

Performance Dates:
Wednesday, December 14th Winter Concert
TBD Spring Concert
Please fill out this form and return this page only. The rest of the syllabus is
yours to keep.

If you are borrowing a school owned instrument, you will need to fill out the TMS
Instrument Loan Agreement Form (next page) and return it with this page.

Name: ______________________
Grade:______________________
Phone number:______________
Email:______________________
Personal Instrument:__________________
Personal Instrument Brand:____________
Personal Instrument Serial #: ____________________

Parent/Guardian contact info

Name:_______________________ Name:_____________________
Relationship:_________________ Relationship:_______________
Phone #:_____________________ Phone #:___________________
Email:_______________________ Email:_____________________
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Student Signature Date

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Parent Signature Date