Show Choir Audition Results

Congratulations to the following students.

Show Choir 2016-2017

23
9
11
21
3
17
4
8
20
7
18
12
22
14
16
25
10
2
6
19
1
5

Rehearsals begin after school on Tuesday, September 27th until 4:30 and continue every Tuesday. There is a required choreography workshop on Friday, October 14th from 3:00-7:00 where we will learn our choreography for this year's show.

September Choir Updates

Choir Uniform
Students must purchase a choir t-shirt this year. This will be our uniform for all performances. We sized t-shirts this week. Shirts should come in in a couple of weeks. The shirts are $15 and you can pay on myschoolfees.com or send in a check or cash. We will wear these with khaki pants. Khakis must be pants--no shorts or capri pants. Tennis shoes, Sperry's, or Tom's are the only approved shoes to wear at performances--no Chacco's, flip flops or sandals of any kind.

This was not paid at the beginning of the year. If you already have a shirt from a friend or sibling, your student may wear that one and does not have to buy another one.

 

October Field Trip

Our big field trip this year is to the Alabama National Fair Choral Festival in Montgomery on Monday, October 31st. The cost of this trip is $45 and goes to pay for:

charter bus transportation-(aprox. $2,000)

wristbands for students to ride unlimited rides ($20/student)

admission to the fair ($5/student)

I will have this on myschoolfees.com next week. The deadline to pay for this trip is Friday, October 7th because I must pay for the tickets, wristbands and buses in advance. Please let us know if you need financial assistance and we can usually work something out. An itinerary for the trip and more details will be coming your way soon. We will also need chaperones for this trip, so please be thinking about that if you are available or are able to take off work to join us. Chaperones must ride the charter buses with us, however, parents who are not chaperones may drive down to see the performance. It is an all day trip for students.

 

Show  Choir Tryouts

Show Choir tryouts for students that did not tryout in May are Friday, September 23rd after school. Students must sing a song of their choosing. Packets of information about show choir will be available  for students to pick up next week.

 

September Choir Updates

Choir Uniform
Students must purchase a choir t-shirt this year. This will be our uniform for all performances. We sized t-shirts this week. Shirts should come in in a couple of weeks. The shirts are $15 and you can pay on myschoolfees.com or send in a check or cash. We will wear these with khaki pants. Khakis must be pants--no shorts or capri pants. Tennis shoes, Sperry's, or Tom's are the only approved shoes to wear at performances--no Chacco's, flip flops or sandals of any kind.

This was not paid at the beginning of the year. If you already have a shirt from a friend or sibling, your student may wear that one and does not have to buy another one.

 

October Field Trip

Our big field trip this year is to the Alabama National Fair Choral Festival in Montgomery on Monday, October 31st. The cost of this trip is $45 and goes to pay for:

charter bus transportation-(aprox. $2,000)

wristbands for students to ride unlimited rides ($20/student)

admission to the fair ($5/student)

I will have this on myschoolfees.com next week. The deadline to pay for this trip is Friday, October 7th because I must pay for the tickets, wristbands and buses in advance. Please let us know if you need financial assistance and we can usually work something out. An itinerary for the trip and more details will be coming your way soon. We will also need chaperones for this trip, so please be thinking about that if you are available or are able to take off work to join us. Chaperones must ride the charter buses with us, however, parents who are not chaperones may drive down to see the performance. It is an all day trip for students.

 

Show  Choir Tryouts

Show Choir tryouts for students that did not tryout in May are Friday, September 23rd after school. Students must sing a song of their choosing. Packets of information about show choir will be available  for students to pick up next week.

 

Welcome to 6th Grade Choir 2016-2017 at Brock's Gap Intermediate!

Welcome to 6th Grade Choir 2016-2017 at Brock's Gap Intermediate!

Hi 6th Grade Choir Parents,

My name is Lindsay Walker and I am the Choral Director at Brock’s Gap. If your child attended Brock’s Gap last year, they went to music twice a week, once with me and once with Lisa Vines. In the past, Lisa has taught choir with me, but this year she is returning to teaching in the EMT rotation. I am happy to announce that Micah Brooker will be teaching choir with me this year. I am excited see all that he will bring to choir this year. We are so happy your student has chosen choir as their elective! We are going to have a great year together. Your child will benefit greatly from having two teachers for choir.

My philosophy as a choral director is that everyone can sing and singing is a teachable skill. Whether your student has a lot of experience singing solos in front of a crowd or just sings in the shower or with the radio, we are all going to get better at singing and reading music together. 

 Requirements for choir:

There are no tryouts for choir. We are happy to have your child in choir no matter what their ability level is. However, your child must be willing to try to sing and follow directions given by the teacher(s). Choir, like any performing ensemble, requires discipline and focus. Choir does not conflict with athletics. This is a very common misconception. There are two evening concerts a year that are required (for a grade), one in December and one in May. Everything else is during school hours. Please talk to me if you have concerns with this. You will be given these dates months in advance to ensure that you can plan for these dates accordingly. Band also requires students to attend two night concerts a year. Choir is a performance based class and performance attendance is graded. We will have a few field trips (day trips) where we perform at a venue other than the school. More info about grading procedures, discipline, an auditioned extracurricular show choir, field trips and uniform will be given out the first week of school.

Your child needs to bring a 1" (one inch) white 3 ring hard cover binder for choir. This is not on the school supply list. The flimsy covered binders do not work for us. This binder will stay in the choir room and cannot be shared with another class.

I will be emailing you frequently throughout the year. In fact, email will be my primary method of communication with you. I want to go ahead and get some dates to you so that you can begin to have an idea of what our choir calendar will look like for this school year.

Please note the following dates for the first months of school on your calendar:

Thurs., August 25th: (Meet the teacher night at BGIS) Choir Parent Meeting 5:15 in the choir room

Sept. TBA: BGIS Show Choir Tryouts (optional) in the BGIS Choir room (for anyone who did not tryout in May)

Monday, November 7th: BGIS Choir Field Trip: Alabama National Fair Choral Competition in Montgomery via charter bus. Depart at 8 am, return to school at 4:30 p.m.


I will be sending out more info on the above dates very soon and the calendar will be discussed at the Choir Parent Meeting on the 25th. If you need to contact me prior to the first day of school, please contact me via email.
We are so excited your child is going to be in choir with us this year! I met some of you last year and I look forward to meeting all of you personally soon. We will also need your help and support throughout the school year. Micah and I are committed to making choir a positive experience for your child this year!


Sincerely,

Lindsay Walker
Choral Director
Brock's Gap Intermediate School

BGIS 6th Grade Choir Spring Concert Reminder May 19th

BGIS 6th Grade Choir Spring Concert Reminder

Thurs., May 19th 6:30, BGIS Gym, Spring Choral Concert- REQUIRED FOR ALL CHOIR STUDENTS (counts for a large grade) 

Athletic practices or lessons are not excused, so please reschedule those. Coaches are required to excuse a player for a school event that is graded. Students must have an excuse in writing (preferably doctor's excuse for sickness) should they miss the concert due to sickness, family emergency or approved prearranged absence form with the school. No other excuses will be accepted. Cadence clinic will end by 5:15 at the latest to allow our students trying out for Cadence to get over to BGIS. 

Call times:

Students report at 6:00

Doors open to parents and friends at 6:20. Parents, please wait outside the gym until we open the doors. We must do some rehearsing before you come in.  The concert will last about an hour.

Attire for choir students: Black Choir t-shirt, khaki pants with belt and tennis shoes

Attire for show choir students: Grey Show Choir t-shirt, khaki pants with belt and tennis shoes

 

 

Tues., Dec. 15th

Fall Concert 6:30p.m. @BGIS, student report at 6:00, (show choir students report at 5:45 p.m.)

 

Doors open to parents and friends at 6:20. Parents, please wait outside the gym until we open the doors. We must do some rehearsing before you come in.  

Attire for all students (show choir and choir): Black Choir t-shirt, khaki pants with belt and tennis shoes

 

 

If students feel bad during the concert, they have been asked to sit down right where they are. We will not move them off of the platforms unless we feel there is an emergency. Sometimes students just get hot....

Please silence cell phones upon entering the gym. You are allowed to video the concert if you would like, but please restrain from using flashes or doing anything that would distract the students. After concerts, we have had students tell us all sorts of things that were happening in the bleachers that they felt caused them to become distracted during the concert. Please do not get up in the middle of the concert unless it is between songs.

Choir Announcements November

BGIS Choir Updates - November

I am extremely proud of our choir students. At the Alabama National Fair Choral Festival, our group not only placed in the top three choirs during the morning awards ceremony, but also earned 1st places scores among the top 3. Thank you for your support. Thanks especially to the parents that rode down with us to chaperone and the ones who drove down to support us. If any parents have pictures, please send them to me so I can put together a slide show for the students. 

We have had a great start to our school year! Here are the next things coming up on the calendar:

Tues. Nov. 10-Choir peforms at Veteran's Day Assembly 8:45 a.m. (NO Choir t-shirts, DRESS YOUR BEST)

Thurs., Dec. 3rd- Perform at SSCES and DVES (8:00-10:30)

Fri., Dec. 4th- Perform at TCES (8:00-9:20)

Mon., Dec. 14th-Choir performs during school (Holiday Assembly)

Tues., Dec. 15th- Fall/Holiday Concert 6:30 p.m. @BGIS (students report at 5:45 p.m.)

Please make sure these dates are on your calendar. These events are mandatory and students receive a grade for these performances. For all of these performances, students will wear their black choir t-shirt and khaki pants. There is no cost involved in the elementary school performance field trips. The above dates are all during school performances, except the evening concert. Please invite family and friends to our concert. If for some reason you can't attend our evening concert on Dec. 15th, please arrange for your student to ride with a friend since all students are required to attend.