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The music service for Colchester
A music service is the whole thing, not a teacher: staffing, cover when somebody is ill, instruments, records of who played what, and one invoice. That is what we run in Colchester.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.