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An instrument for every child in Lancaster

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

Lancaster schools use us as their instrumental provision: we bring the teachers, the instruments and the records, and the school keeps its timetable.

Of the 26 primary schools in Lancaster, the largest is Moorside Primary School with around 570 children. 4 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
26
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 Lancaster

The September intake at Willow Lane Community Primary School and across Lancaster is where most musical lives start, usually on piano.

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Lancaster

This is Lancaster as our school register sees it. One named school is usually enough to start a conversation.

Every primary school in and around Lancaster, from the Department for Education’s register - 26 of them. 4 are the size we usually start with.

  • Lancaster Ryelands Primary SchoolPrimary, around 360 childrenOur usual size
  • Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
  • Bowerham Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 500 childrenOur usual size
  • Moorside Primary SchoolPrimary, around 570 childrenOur usual size
  • St Josephs Catholic Primary School, LancasterPrimary, around 140 children
  • Castle View Primary AcademyPrimary, around 100 children
  • Willow Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Skerton St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, LancasterPrimary, around 200 children
  • Bentham Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 150 children
  • Caton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Lancaster Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Cawthorne's Endowed SchoolPrimary, around 30 children
  • St Wilfrid's Cof E Primary SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • Quernmore Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School, LancasterPrimary, around 210 children
  • Ellel St John the Evangelist Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 10 children
  • Wray with Botton Endowed Primary SchoolPrimary, around 60 children
  • Slyne-with-Hest, St Luke's, Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Austwick Church of England VA Primary SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Caton St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
  • Hornby St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 20 children
  • Dolphinholme Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Tatham Fells Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 30 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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster

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 Lancaster

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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster

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

Get the music service into your Lancaster 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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