Norfolk · NR19
Whole-school music provision in Dereham
We staff it, cover it and record it. Your school keeps its timetable.
We run instrumental tuition in Dereham schools, in term time, in the school day. No evening trek, no weekend lost.
Of the 16 primary schools in Dereham, the largest is Scarning Voluntary Controlled Primary School with around 420 children. 2 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
- 16
- Towns on the same round
- 3
- Instruments taught here
- 5
- Children in a group
- 1-21
THE REGISTER
Primary schools in Dereham
This is the Dereham list. If your school is on it, say so - that is usually the whole first step.
Every primary school in and around Dereham, from the Department for Education’s register - 16 of them. 2 are the size we usually start with.
- Dereham Church of England Junior AcademyPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
- Scarning Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
- Foulsham Primary School AcademyPrimary, around 60 children
- Yaxham Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary, around 70 children
- Hockering Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary, around 30 children
- Grove House Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
- North Elmham Church of England Primary Academy & NurseryPrimary, around 60 children
- Dereham Church of England Infant and Nursery AcademyPrimary, around 180 children
- Swanton Morley VC Primary SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
- Bawdeswell Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
- Dereham, Toftwood Community Junior SchoolPrimary, around 320 children
- King's Park Infant School, DerehamPrimary, around 40 children
- St Mary's Community Primary School, BeetleyPrimary, around 160 children
- Mattishall Primary SchoolPrimary, around 160 children
- Brisley Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary, around 70 children
- Toftwood Infant SchoolPrimary, around 210 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 Dereham
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.
ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP
From a first conversation to music in a Dereham 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 SAME ROUND
Near Dereham
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 Dereham 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 Dereham
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
Start a conversation about your Dereham 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.

