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Music on the Thatcham timetable

We staff it, cover it and record it. Your school keeps its timetable.

Thatcham schools use us as their instrumental provision: we bring the teachers, the instruments and the records, and the school keeps its timetable.

13 primary schools teach in and around Thatcham. The largest, Francis Baily Primary School, has around 490 children, and 4 of them are the size an in-school music service usually runs in.

Put your school forwardHow a school partnership works
A child and teacher exploring the piano together
Inside the school day.
Nothing extra for your staff to run.
  • Government-backed provisionDelivered with music education hubs across England
  • Music Hub partnerLocal music education hubs
  • Funded places availableSchool and hub funded provision

Teachers, instruments and cover

We staff the lessons and cover them when somebody is ill. Your school does not find a replacement.

Inside the school day

A room and a rotating slot. Groups of one to twenty-one, in term time, so the same subject is never missed twice.

Safeguarding and records held by us

Checks, registers, practice notes and evidence, kept by us and available to your team whenever you ask.

Two payers, and never both

A place is funded by the school or paid for by the family, never part of each. Many schools fund a set number of places and the other families pay. Which applies depends on the school, not on who asks first.

Primary schools here
13
Towns on the same round
3
Instruments taught here
5
Children in a group
1-21
A drum kit with cymbals and a bass drum in a music room

September, the big intake

This week in Thatcham

First week back in Thatcham: timetables settle, rooms get allocated, and the first lessons of a child's playing life happen.

ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP

From a first conversation to music in a Thatcham school.

  1. One conversation

    You name the school. We find out what is already running there, what the funding allows, and what we could put on next term.

  2. A room and a slot

    You give us a room and a rotating slot. Nothing else on your timetable changes, and the rotation is what stops one subject losing out.

  3. We staff it and we cover it

    Our teachers arrive, teach in groups of one to twenty-one, and we send cover when somebody is ill. Your office is not asked to find anybody.

  4. The records come back to you

    Registers, practice notes and safeguarding evidence, held by us and open to your team. We bill families directly; you keep the relationship.

KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.

What we would teach in Thatcham

A school agrees its own provision with us. These are the instruments our teachers already carry into schools in this part of the county.

  • Piano

  • Guitar

  • Drums

  • Singing

  • Ukulele

Groups of one to twenty-one, so a child can start alongside their friends or on their own, and move between the two as they get better.

THE SAME ROUND

Near Thatcham

Our teachers travel a fixed weekly round, which is what makes cover possible when somebody is ill. These are the places on the same one.

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Thatcham

Thatcham's schools as we have them. A school we have never been asked about is a school we have probably never approached.

Every primary school in and around Thatcham, from the Department for Education’s register - 13 of them. 4 are the size we usually start with.

  • Whitelands Park Primary SchoolPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
  • Thatcham Park CofE PrimaryPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • Francis Baily Primary SchoolPrimary, around 490 childrenOur usual size
  • Spurcroft Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Hampstead Norreys C.E. Primary SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Parsons Down Junior SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • Ashford Hill Primary SchoolPrimary, around 130 children
  • Hermitage Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Curridge Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • Parsons Down Infant SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Yattendon C.E. Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • St Finian's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children

Name yours and we will find out what is possible there - the funding, the room, and what could be on the timetable next term. A school without the mark is not ruled out. It is smaller than the size we usually start with, which is a different sentence.

School names and roll are from the Department for Education’s Get Information about Schools register, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Roll is rounded, because it is a census count that moves every September.

WHO PAYS, AND WHEN

Who pays for a place

A place has one payer and never two. Which one applies at a school in Thatcham depends on that school and its funding, not on who asks first. Ask and we will tell you what is available at yours.

  • Funded places available

    A school funds a number of places, so those children pay nothing. How many depends on the school and its funding.

  • Family-paid places

    A flat monthly plan, the same every month, with missed lessons made up rather than refunded.

IN MORE DETAIL

More about the service in Thatcham

A page each, written for the question rather than for the search. The same service, answered the way a different reader would ask about it.

ONE CONVERSATION

Get the music service into your Thatcham school

Name the school and we will find out what is possible there. It costs you a sentence, and it is how most of our partnerships began.

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