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Your Portsmouth school's music provision, run for you

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

We put music into the Portsmouth school day rather than on top of it, because that is the version families can actually keep up.

Portsmouth has 35 primary schools. Arundel Court Primary Academy and Nursery is the biggest of them at around 670 on roll, and 18 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
35
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 Portsmouth

The September intake at Highbury Primary School and across Portsmouth is where most musical lives start, usually on piano.

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Portsmouth

The Portsmouth schools we hold. Naming yours is the fastest route to a lesson in it.

Every primary school in and around Portsmouth, from the Department for Education’s register - 35 of them. 18 are the size we usually start with.

  • Ark Ayrton Primary AcademyPrimary, around 500 childrenOur usual size
  • Arundel Court Primary Academy and NurseryPrimary, around 670 childrenOur usual size
  • The Flying Bull AcademyPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Ark Dickens Primary AcademyPrimary, around 450 childrenOur usual size
  • Portsdown Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • Penbridge Junior SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • The Victory Primary SchoolPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
  • Milton Park Primary SchoolPrimary, around 380 childrenOur usual size
  • King's Academy Northern Parade (Junior)Primary, around 350 childrenOur usual size
  • New Horizons Primary SchoolPrimary, around 510 childrenOur usual size
  • Langstone Primary AcademyPrimary, around 620 childrenOur usual size
  • King's Academy College Park (Junior)Primary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
  • St Jude's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Highbury Primary SchoolPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Copnor Primary SchoolPrimary, around 630 childrenOur usual size
  • Court Lane Junior AcademyPrimary, around 470 childrenOur usual size
  • Wimborne Primary SchoolPrimary, around 560 childrenOur usual size
  • Solent Junior SchoolPrimary, around 360 childrenOur usual size
  • St George's Beneficial Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary SchoolPrimary, around 270 children
  • Beacon View Primary AcademyPrimary, around 230 children
  • Stamshaw Junior SchoolPrimary, around 290 children
  • Medina Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • St Paul's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 270 children
  • Manor Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Penbridge Infant School & NurseryPrimary, around 210 children
  • Meon Junior SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
  • Stamshaw Infant AcademyPrimary, around 260 children
  • Gatcombe Park Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • St John's Cathedral Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 240 children
  • King's Academy Northern Parade (Infant)Primary, around 230 children
  • Westover Primary SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Corpus Christi Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 310 children
  • King's Academy College Park (Infant)Primary, around 300 children
  • Court Lane Infant AcademyPrimary, around 350 children
  • Solent Infant SchoolPrimary, around 270 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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth

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

Open a partnership conversation in Portsmouth

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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