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Where Ashford children already learn to play

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

Across Ashford our teachers hold regular slots in school buildings, with practice notes going home after each one and a single monthly payment behind it.

Ashford and the villages around it hold 46 primary schools. Ashford Park Primary School is the largest at around 650, and 19 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
46
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 Ashford

First week back in Ashford: 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 Ashford 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 Ashford

This is the Ashford list. If your school is on it, say so - that is usually the whole first step.

Every primary school in and around Ashford, from the Department for Education’s register - 46 of them. 19 are the size we usually start with.

  • Ashford Oaks Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
  • Beaver Green Primary SchoolPrimary, around 480 childrenOur usual size
  • East Stour Primary SchoolPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Meadhurst Primary SchoolPrimary, around 470 childrenOur usual size
  • Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Kennington Church of England AcademyPrimary, around 360 childrenOur usual size
  • Ashford Park Primary SchoolPrimary, around 650 childrenOur usual size
  • Furley Park Primary AcademyPrimary, around 500 childrenOur usual size
  • Willesborough Junior SchoolPrimary, around 480 childrenOur usual size
  • The John Wesley Church of England Methodist Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Finberry Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Repton Manor Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Ashford CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 380 childrenOur usual size
  • Great Chart Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Kingsnorth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Godinton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • The Echelford Primary SchoolPrimary, around 610 childrenOur usual size
  • St Michael Catholic Primary School & NurseryPrimary, around 480 childrenOur usual size
  • Lady Joanna Thornhill Endowed Primary SchoolPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
  • Phoenix Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Charing Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Goat Lees Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • John Mayne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Chilmington Green Primary SchoolPrimary, around 300 children
  • Brook Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Mersham Primary SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • Bethersden Primary SchoolPrimary, around 120 children
  • Clarendon Primary SchoolPrimary, around 250 children
  • Victoria Road Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Pluckley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Hamstreet Primary AcademyPrimary, around 220 children
  • Woodchurch Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
  • St Simon of England Roman Catholic Primary School, AshfordPrimary, around 210 children
  • Egerton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • High Halden Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • Sellindge Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Smeeth Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 120 children
  • St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Smarden Primary SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
  • Willesborough Infant SchoolPrimary, around 330 children
  • Challock Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Aldington Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Bodsham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 70 children
  • Stowting Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
  • Brabourne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • Downs View Infant SchoolPrimary

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 Ashford

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 Ashford

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 Ashford 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 Ashford

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

Tell us about your Ashford 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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