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The music service for Bishop Auckland schools

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

Across Bishop Auckland our teachers hold regular slots in school buildings, with practice notes going home after each one and a single monthly payment behind it.

30 primary schools sit in and around Bishop Auckland, the largest of them St Anne's CofE Primary School at around 240 on roll. Of those, 5 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
30
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 Bishop Auckland

The September intake at Blessed John Duckett Catholic Primary School, Tow Law and across Bishop Auckland is where most musical lives start, usually on drums.

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Bishop Auckland

Every school we hold for Bishop Auckland, listed plainly. A head or a music lead asking is how most partnerships begin.

Every primary school in and around Bishop Auckland, from the Department for Education’s register - 30 of them. 5 are the size we usually start with.

  • Prince Bishops Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 childrenOur usual size
  • St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop AucklandPrimary, around 220 childrenOur usual size
  • St Helen Auckland Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 childrenOur usual size
  • Toft Hill Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 childrenOur usual size
  • St Anne's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 240 childrenOur usual size
  • Woodhouse Primary AcademyPrimary, around 180 children
  • Evenwood Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • Cockton Hill Junior SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Victoria Lane AcademyPrimary, around 160 children
  • Cockton Hill Infant SchoolPrimary, around 150 children
  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, CoundonPrimary, around 100 children
  • Etherley Lane Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Tow Law Millennium Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Oakley Cross Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 160 children
  • Copeland Road Primary SchoolPrimary, around 130 children
  • St Andrew's AcademyPrimary, around 190 children
  • Blessed John Duckett Catholic Primary School, Tow LawPrimary, around 80 children
  • Ramshaw Primary SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Frosterley Primary SchoolPrimary, around 30 children
  • St Chad's Catholic Primary School, Witton ParkPrimary, around 60 children
  • Cockfield Primary SchoolPrimary, around 120 children
  • Stanhope Barrington CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 120 children
  • Butterknowle Primary SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Wolsingham Primary SchoolPrimary, around 160 children
  • Wearhead Primary SchoolPrimary, around 10 children
  • Hamsterley Primary SchoolPrimary, around 40 children
  • St John's Chapel Primary SchoolPrimary, around 20 children
  • Escomb Primary SchoolPrimary, around 160 children
  • Witton-le-Wear Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • Woodland Primary SchoolPrimary, around 30 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.

ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP

From a first conversation to music in a Bishop Auckland 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.

THE SAME ROUND

Near Bishop Auckland

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.

KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.

What we would teach in Bishop Auckland

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.

WHO PAYS, AND WHEN

Who pays for a place

A place has one payer and never two. Which one applies at a school in Bishop Auckland 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 Bishop Auckland

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

Tell us about your Bishop Auckland 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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