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Where Colchester children already learn to play

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

We run instrumental tuition in Colchester schools, in term time, in the school day. No evening trek, no weekend lost.

Colchester has 73 primary schools. Brightlingsea Primary School and Nursery is the biggest of them at around 650 on roll, and 21 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
73
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 Colchester

First week back in Colchester: 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 Colchester 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 Colchester

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 Colchester

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 Colchester

Schools in and around Colchester. If yours is here and we are not, that is a gap we would like to close.

Every primary school in and around Colchester, from the Department for Education’s register - 73 of them. 21 are the size we usually start with.

  • Unity Primary AcademyPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
  • St. George's SchoolPrimary, around 610 childrenOur usual size
  • Brinkley Grove Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • St James the Great Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
  • St John's Green Primary SchoolPrimary, around 590 childrenOur usual size
  • Brightlingsea Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 650 childrenOur usual size
  • Stanway Fiveways Primary SchoolPrimary, around 470 childrenOur usual size
  • North Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 460 childrenOur usual size
  • Friars Grove Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Mersea Island SchoolPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Montgomery Primary School, ColchesterPrimary, around 610 childrenOur usual size
  • Highwoods Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 450 childrenOur usual size
  • Stanway Primary SchoolPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Camulos AcademyPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Queen Boudica Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Kelvedon St Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary, around 460 childrenOur usual size
  • Braiswick Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Earls Colne Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • Heathlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, West BergholtPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Hamilton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Home Farm Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Hazelmere Junior SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • Willow Brook Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 190 children
  • Roach Vale Primary SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
  • Monkwick Junior SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Parsons Heath Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Cherry Tree AcademyPrimary, around 180 children
  • Monkwick Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 150 children
  • Kings Ford AcademyPrimary, around 150 children
  • Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and AldhamPrimary, around 100 children
  • Lexden Primary School with Unit for Hearing Impaired PupilsPrimary, around 240 children
  • St Michael's Primary School and Nursery, ColchesterPrimary, around 230 children
  • Great Tey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • King's Ford Infant School and NurseryPrimary, around 150 children
  • Old Heath Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Milldene Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Gosbecks Primary SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Hazelmere Infant School and NurseryPrimary, around 160 children
  • Fingringhoe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • Kendall Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Broomgrove Junior SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • St Lawrence Church of England Primary School, RowhedgePrimary, around 220 children
  • Lakelands Primary SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
  • The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Great Bentley Primary SchoolPrimary, around 260 children
  • Elmstead Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Broomgrove Infant SchoolPrimary, around 160 children
  • Messing Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Alresford Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • Prettygate Junior SchoolPrimary, around 250 children
  • Ardleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary, around 80 children
  • Langenhoe Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, CoggeshallPrimary, around 340 children
  • Prettygate Infant SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
  • Tiptree Heath Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • St Luke's Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 270 children
  • Layer-de-la-Haye Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Birch Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 120 children
  • Langham Primary AcademyPrimary, around 100 children
  • Feering Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 150 children
  • Myland Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 310 children
  • Dedham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Boxted St Peter's Church of England SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, ColchesterPrimary, around 250 children
  • St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, ColchesterPrimary, around 210 children
  • Millfields Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • St George's Church of England Primary School, Great BromleyPrimary, around 110 children
  • St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, ColchesterPrimary, around 210 children
  • St Andrew's Church of England Primary Academy, Marks TeyPrimary, around 130 children
  • Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Chappel CofE Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Fordham All Saints CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 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 Colchester 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 Colchester

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

Bring the music service to your Colchester 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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