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Whole-class music tuition in Dorchester

A whole class, one instrument, one teacher, for a term or a year - the way a lot of Dorchester schools start before individual lessons follow it.

Put your school forwardHow a school partnership works
A classical guitar on its stand beside a piano
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.

WHO PAYS, AND WHEN

Who pays for a place

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

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Dorchester

This is Dorchester as our school register sees it. One named school is usually enough to start a conversation.

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

  • Manor Park Church of England First SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • Damers First SchoolPrimary, around 480 childrenOur usual size
  • Cheselbourne Village SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Piddle Valley Church of England First SchoolPrimary, around 40 children
  • Frome Valley CofE First SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • Maiden Newton, Greenford Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • Buckland Newton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • Winterbourne Valley Church of England Aided First SchoolPrimary, around 60 children
  • Thorner's Church of England School, Litton CheneyPrimary, around 120 children
  • The Prince of Wales SchoolPrimary, around 160 children
  • St Mary's Church of England First School, CharminsterPrimary, around 150 children
  • Puddletown Church of England First SchoolPrimary, around 130 children
  • Broadmayne First School and NurseryPrimary, around 140 children
  • St Mary's Catholic First School, DorchesterPrimary, around 180 children
  • Cerne Abbas CofE VC First SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Sticklands Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 70 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.

KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.

What we would teach in Dorchester

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 Dorchester

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.

ONE CONVERSATION

Partner your Dorchester school with us

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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