Students will wear their all-black concert attire on the bus on the way to Orlando. (Please see Syllabus for appropriate concert attire). Students should have their park outfit (trip t-shirt, shorts/jeans, sneakers, protective sun gear) in an extra bag.
All students will be given a Franklin Academy Music Universal Studios 2023 field trip shirt for use at the park. The students will be able to keep the shirts after the trip.
Field trip t-shirts may not be cut, modified, or altered in any way.
Shorts must end at the knee.
(no words, logos, gang symbols, etc.)
Jeans may not be ripped or have holes in them.
Sandals are not allowed in the park.
Students will have time in a bathroom to change before entering the park after the performances.
All belongings will be left on or under the buses while visiting the parks. No one will have access to the buses until 9:00 pm when we meet at the bus terminals.
BUS RULES
Students will be placed onto either the Girls or Boys bus. Any bus with girls and boys together will have the front of the bus for boys and the back of the bus for girls separated by a row of parent chaperones in accordance with Franklin Academy administration policy. Students are to remain on their best behavior on the bus. "Hand-checks" will be made sporadically. Unfortunately, the bus company does NOT allow FOOD or DRINKS on the bus.
PERCUSSION/EQUIPMENT
All percussionists and Tri-M members attending the trip are to meet an hour before the departure time to assist with moving percussion instruments and equipment to the buses. Percussionists and Tri-M members will need to be there at 5am.
MEALS
All field trip goers must have their breakfast AHEAD OF TIME before getting on the bus, and bring extra cash for lunch and dinner at the park. $30 for lunch and dinner is a recommended minimum for all field trip attendees.
COMMUNICATION DURING TRIP
All students, staff, and chaperones are required to join the Franklin Universal Trip Remind101 group. Students will not be allowed to enter the bus until they are signed up on the Remind101. If a student does not have a phone, they need to choose a phone buddy that they will be with the entire trip. Mr. Saenz needs to be notified of any phone buddy pairs!
PARENT PICKUPS
Students may be picked up by their parent/guardian or previously approved adult from the bus terminals at 7:00 pm. The parent/guardian or approved adult must CHECK IN with a teacher or staff chaperone at the bus terminal before the student is to be released. The student will not be released from the bus terminals to walk all the way to the car parking lot by themselves. Students cannot be picked up by parents before 7:00 pm as this will require a chaperone to walk the student to the bus terminals and use 30 or more minutes of their own time to do so.
EMERGENCIES
Each parent will be equipped with a Med Kit draw-string bag to walk around the park with. The Med Kit will have band-aids, gauze, alcohol wipes, feminine products, basic medication and the assigned medication and equipment needed by the 10 students they are chaperoning (like allergy medication, epi-pens, snacks for diabetics etc).
Each parent chaperone will also have a contact information sheet for the student cell phone numbers and the director's cell number. The student cell numbers will be used in the case that a chaperone loses a student and the director's number will be used to receive text messages during the park for notifications and reminders. Parent chaperones must have fully charges phones for the trip in order to receive the "head towards the buses" text an hour before we leave the park. We recommend bringing a fully-charged portable charger just in case.
ANNUAL PASS HOLDERS
Students and Chaperones who have a CURRENT Universal Annual Park Pass will not pay the January Payment ($60 for students, $40 for parents). Any trip participant with a Universal Annual Pass must provide a Front and Back photo of the current annual pass to the teacher or bring it in to be scanned by the teacher. These need to be sent to Universal with our paperwork. Any trip participant with an annual pass must also BRING the pass with them on the trip.
CANCELLATIONS
All payments made to Franklin Academy are FINAL and NON-REFUNDABLE. No circumstance will allow a parent a refund of any payments. Parents may request approval from Admin to have payments moved to other accounts for other trips and payments by emailing the business manager, but absolutely no refunds. The business manager reserves the right to deny the transfer of payments. Family and medical emergencies will not allow refunds.
The music teachers and administrators reserve the right to remove students from a field trip with no refund due to an academic or behavioral probation or contract. (If a student is removed from a trip, they will not get the trip shirt for security reasons at the park)
