This year the annual band fee will be $40 to help cover the rising cost of instrument repairs and maintenance. If you have more than one student enrolled in the East Wiltshire Band program the fee will be $50 for the family. The band fee is also used to help cover the cost of band supplies (reeds, sticks and mallets, valve oil, slide cream, cleaning cloths, tuning slide grease), festival registration fees, clinician fees, and band uniforms. The PSB provides band instruments for students to use for free (no monthly rental fee) through the school budget.  The PSB also supplies textbooks and sheet music for the band program. Fundraising activities will be held throughout the year to support educational field trips for band students.

Band fees can be paid any time now by cheque or cash. I will also be available during parent-teacher interviews in November to accept band fees if you’d prefer to pay at that time. The office is not set up to accept SchoolCash online payments for band fees at this time, but I will let you know if that changes.

* Please enclose payments in an envelope labeled “Band Fee” and also provide  the student’s name and class.  If envelopes are as hard to find at your house as they are at mine, you may choose to place the payment in a Ziplock bag with a note inside stating the same information.