Merseyside · CH41
Bringing a music service to a Birkenhead school
We staff it, cover it and record it. Your school keeps its timetable.
Music in Birkenhead should not depend on whether a parent can get across town by half past four. Our peripatetic teachers come into the school.
Counting the ones just outside it, Birkenhead has 14 primary schools. Bidston Avenue Primary School is the largest, at around 450 children, and 4 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
- 14
- Towns on the same round
- 3
- Instruments taught here
- 5
- Children in a group
- 1-21
September, the big intake
This week in Birkenhead
September is the month Birkenhead decides. New year groups, new instruments, and the biggest intake of beginners Merseyside sees all year.
ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP
From a first conversation to music in a Birkenhead 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.
THE REGISTER
Primary schools in Birkenhead
Here is Birkenhead's school list as we hold it. Say which one you are asking about and we will take it from there.
Every primary school in and around Birkenhead, from the Department for Education’s register - 14 of them. 4 are the size we usually start with.
- Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
- Bidston Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary, around 450 childrenOur usual size
- Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
- The Priory Parish CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
- Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
- Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary, around 300 children
- Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary, around 310 children
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
- Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary, around 170 children
- St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 250 children
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
- Co-op Academy PortlandPrimary, around 230 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 Birkenhead
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 Birkenhead
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 Birkenhead 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 Birkenhead
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 Birkenhead 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.