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Peripatetic music teaching across Kendal

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

Our Kendal teaching sits inside the timetable. A child leaves a lesson, plays for half an hour, and goes back to the next one.

Counting the ones just outside it, Kendal has 16 primary schools. Ghyllside Primary School is the largest, at around 420 children, and 2 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
16
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 Kendal

September is the month Kendal decides. New year groups, new instruments, and the biggest intake of beginners Cumbria sees all year.

KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.

What we would teach in Kendal

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.

ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP

From a first conversation to music in a Kendal 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 REGISTER

Primary schools in Kendal

The Kendal schools on our register are below. Any of them can have the service in their own timetable next term.

Every primary school in and around Kendal, from the Department for Education’s register - 16 of them. 2 are the size we usually start with.

  • Ghyllside Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Heron Hill Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Stramongate Primary SchoolPrimary, around 240 children
  • St Thomas's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 240 children
  • Vicarage Park CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • St Oswald's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Staveley CofE SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Grayrigg CofE SchoolPrimary, around 70 children
  • Castle Park SchoolPrimary, around 330 children
  • Old Hutton CofE SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Crosthwaite CofE SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • Levens CofE SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St Patrick's CofE SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Crosscrake CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 60 children
  • Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, KendalPrimary, around 130 children
  • Selside Endowed CofE 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.

THE SAME ROUND

Near Kendal

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.

WHO PAYS, AND WHEN

Who pays for a place

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

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

Ask about the service at your Kendal 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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