Centennial Middle School Ski/Snowboard Club

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1 Centennial Middle School Ski/Snowboard Club Mandatory meetings: Students must attend the mandatory meeting on December 7 in the auditorium during Connections in order to participate. Scheduled trips for the season: Saturday, December 17 Wild Mountain Saturday, January 7 Trollhaugen Saturday, January 21 Wild Mountain Saturday, February 4 Trollhaugen Saturday, February 11 Wild Mountain Registration: Registration is on FeePay. Students can register for all 5 trips for $175. (This fee includes transportation, chaperones, lift ticket and insurance. Registration deadline is December 9 for the package price. Priority is given to students registering for all five trips. Students may register for individual trips providing space is available. The cost for individual trips will be $40. Registration for individual trips will be available until the Tuesday before the trip on FeePay as space allows. There must be a minimum of 40 students to run this activity. After 50 students, registrations will be taken as long as there is space on available buses. Registrations will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. The registration form, contract, waiver and fees will be completed on FeePay. Equipment: Students will be responsible for paying for their own rental of equipment once at the ski area. Ski and Snowboard rental packages are $21 at Wild Mountain and $19 at Trollhaugen. Rental packages include helmets. If you wish to rent helmets they can be rented for $4 at Wild Mountain and $2 at Trollhaugen. Please bring your student ID if you are planning to rent equipment. Lockers are available for personal belongings at both resorts for a nominal fee. We are asking you to please make sure that all of your student s equipment is properly labeled with his/her name. It would be helpful if you could bundle everything and put it in a ski/snowboard bag. This makes transportation and identification much easier. Lessons: We strongly encourage beginners to sign up for ski/snowboard lessons. Ski and snowboard lessons for beginners are free. Advanced lessons are $5 at Wild Mountain and $10 at Trollhaugen. Sign up for lessons with the Activities Office prior to the trip. The day of the trip, students should check in with ski/snowboard advisor when arriving at the resort. Transportation: We will leave the Middle School parking lot promptly at 3:00 p.m. on the day of the trip. Please stay with your student until the buses have arrived for loading. When you come to pick up your student(s) at the middle school, please DO NOT park in the loading area in front of the school. We need space to unload the buses. We will unload in front of the cafeteria entrance at approximately 10:00 p.m. Late pick up may result in your student being removed from the ski/snowboard club with no refund. Refunds: Refunds will not be given for students who miss a trip, however you can request a voucher BEFORE the trip is taken. No Refunds or Vouchers will be issued for students who have not communicated with the activities department before the trip. Chaperones will be Centennial School District staff and parents. An informational chaperone meeting will be held on November 22 at 6:00 pm in the CMS Learning Commons. All parents interested in chaperoning should plan on attending. Parent chaperones will be scheduled following the meeting. If you have any questions regarding this program, please call Cindy Hinman at (763)

2 Centennial Ski/Snowboard Club Information Rules and Regulations DEPARTURE TIMES: The buses will leave from Centennial Middle School promptly at 3:00 p.m. Buses will begin loading at 2:45 p.m. All students participating in this program MUST ride the bus to and from the ski area unless arrangements have been made in advance with the Activities Director. (The one exception is in case of injury.) RETURN TIME: The buses will arrive back at the Middle School at approximately 10:00 PM. Please make sure you are here to pick up your student(s) at this time. Late pick up may result in your student being removed from the ski/snowboard club with no refund. BAD WEATHER: Due to bad weather, it may sometimes become necessary to cancel a trip. Announcements will be made Friday at the school if possible. If it would be necessary to cancel a trip on Saturday, please call Cindy Hinman s voice mail at (763) For trips that are canceled every effort will be made to reschedule for another evening. INJURY PROCEDURES: PARENTS PLEASE INFORM YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER OF YOUR WHEREABOUTS DURING THE TIME WE WILL BE SKIING/SNOWBOARDING. Injured skiers/snowboarders will be taken to the First Aid Room. The ski area has the right to call an ambulance if they decide it is necessary. The advisor is informed, and he/she will inform the student s parent. There are two ways an injured skier/snowboarder will return after an injury: 1. The student waits and takes the bus back. 2. The parents drive to the ski area or the hospital and they drive the student home. *Please bring dry clothes when picking up an injured skier/snowboarder. BUS CONDUCT: SKIERS/SNOWBOARDERS WILL FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS GIVEN BY THE BUS DRIVER AND THE CHAPERONES. You must remain seated at all times when the bus is moving. There should be no changing of seats. No standing while the bus is moving or kneeling facing backwards. The use of profane language will be not be tolerated. No throwing any objects, food, hats, etc. If the bus is a mess, the students responsible will stay and clean up before they go home. Students will not be allowed to eat while on the bus. All food must stay in their bags. There will be two people to a seat; no lying down. You must face the front, no feet over the backs of the seats. The first and last seats on the passenger side are reserved for the chaperones. Students should not sit in either of these seats or put their possessions on them. IMPROPER BEHAVIOR: BEHAVIOR OF ALL STUDENTS IN THE SKI/SNOWBOARD CLUB WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE ESTABLISHED CODE OF CONDUCT, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL (refer to school handbook online). ANY VIOLATION OF THESE RULES OR REGULATIONS COULD RESULT IN SKI/SNOWBOARD CLUB PRIVILEGES BEING TAKEN AWAY OR SUSPENSION FROM SKI/SNOWBOARD CLUB WITH NO REFUND!!! Students are not allowed to have in their possession (at any time) or use (at any time) controlled substances. These include: cigarettes, chewing tobacco, alcohol, or anything else covered in the school handbook. Students are not allowed in the NON-SKI area. Any infraction of these rules will result in the confiscation of the student s lift ticket and the parents will be notified.

3 Setting up a FeePay Account It is best to use Google Chrome or Firefox with FeePay. You will need your students ID number to set up your student s account. This is the same number on Parent Portal, their schedule and report cards. Once a FeePay Account is set up for your family, Activities, Fees, Meals (Pending Setup), School Age Care and other Community Ed Registrations are easily accessible. Login and Set-up 1. Access the district website at isd12.feepay.com. 2. Select in the upper, right corner of the screen. 3. If you already have a FeePay Account, enter your and password and log in. Skip to step 7. -or- If you have not yet created a FeePay Account, select 4. Complete the Register a New Account Form answering the fields for yourself. 5. Select at the bottom of the form. 6. Sign using your new login. 7. Select the button to add family members. 8. If the Student is enrolled in the school district and you see the Activities or Meals link in the black menu bar options in the upper, left of your screen, use the 'Yes, They Have a Student ID' option. -or- If the student is in preschool or younger OR Community Ed is the only option in your black menu bar (upper, left area of your screen), use the 'No, They Do Not Have a Student ID' option. NOTE: You will need to have the Student ID handy for any child enrolled in the school district. If the Student ID matches the student's last name in the system, a confirmation will appear. 9. Select.

4 10. Repeat for any additional children. Register for an Activity To register your student for an activity please log in to FeePay at isd12.feepay.com. On your homepage you will see a link to Activities in the black menu bar across the top of the page and a picture tile with the words Activities." Clicking on the tile will also take you to the Activities page. You will see a listing of all available activities for which your student(s) are eligible to sign up. Some activities may require a completed online form before adding to the cart. The Add to Cart button will be grayed out until the online form is completed. Others may require a valid physical be on file with the school district before registration is allowed. A red warning message will appear next to these activities and the Add to Cart button will not be displayed until this happens. Only activities that are in a current enrollment phase will be visible. If the Activity requires an online form to be completed you will see the yellow Form button to the right of the Activity listing. Click this button to begin filling out the form. The form will appear in a pop-up window. Fill in the required information and click the Submit button at the bottom of the form. If you have missed any required fields you will be prompted with a message to this effect and a red notification message will appear next to the missed field. Hint: You may need to scroll up on longer forms to see a field that is missing required information. Once these are corrected click submit at the bottom of the form once more. The form will be recorded and the activity will be added to your shopping cart. (Please note: you have the option to print the form before submitting.) If you believe you have made a mistake or change your mind you about registering for an activity, simply click the Remove button on the line with the activity listing or in the cart by clicking on the minus button next to the cart item:

5 You may register for as many activities all in one session. Once you are finished, please choose the Checkout button. You can access the checkout anytime by clicking on your shopping cart in the upper right hand corner of the site. Enter your payment information. If you wish to store this payment information securely for future use, please select the Yes button shown under the Store For Later Use? option as shown above. When all payment information is entered, select the green Process Payment button.