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Instrumental tuition for Chatham schools
We staff it, cover it and record it. Your school keeps its timetable.
Parents in Chatham tell us the same thing: the will is there and the week is not. Teaching in school is our answer to that.
Of the 22 primary schools in Chatham, the largest is St Mary's Island Church of England (Aided) Primary School with around 660 children. 13 of them are the size an in-school music service usually runs in.
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
- 22
- Towns on the same round
- 3
- Instruments taught here
- 5
- Children in a group
- 1-21
September, the big intake
This week in Chatham
First week back in Chatham: timetables settle, rooms get allocated, and the first lessons of a child's playing life happen.
KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.
What we would teach in Chatham
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 REGISTER
Primary schools in Chatham
This is Chatham as our school register sees it. One named school is usually enough to start a conversation.
Every primary school in and around Chatham, from the Department for Education’s register - 22 of them. 13 are the size we usually start with.
- Phoenix Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
- Luton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 610 childrenOur usual size
- New Road Primary SchoolPrimary, around 350 childrenOur usual size
- Oaklands SchoolPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
- Wayfield Primary SchoolPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
- Balfour Junior SchoolPrimary, around 480 childrenOur usual size
- St Michael Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 450 childrenOur usual size
- Maundene SchoolPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
- New Horizons Children's AcademyPrimary, around 620 childrenOur usual size
- Lordswood SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
- St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
- Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary, around 500 childrenOur usual size
- St Mary's Island Church of England (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimary, around 660 childrenOur usual size
- Greenvale Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
- St John's Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
- All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
- Kingfisher Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
- Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary, around 240 children
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
- Horsted Infant SchoolPrimary
- Horsted Junior SchoolPrimary
- Swingate Primary 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.
THE SAME ROUND
Near Chatham
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 CLEAR NEXT STEP
From a first conversation to music in a Chatham school.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WHO PAYS, AND WHEN
Who pays for a place
A place has one payer and never two. Which one applies at a school in Chatham 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 Chatham
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
Partner your Chatham 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.