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The music service for Oxford schools

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

We run an in-school music service in Oxford: our teachers come into the school during the school day, so lessons happen where the children already are.

There are 48 primary schools in and around Oxford. The largest is Windmill Primary School, with around 620 children, and 11 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
48
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 Oxford

First week back in Oxford: timetables settle, rooms get allocated, and the first lessons of a child's playing life happen.

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Oxford

Every school we hold for Oxford, listed plainly. A head or a music lead asking is how most partnerships begin.

Every primary school in and around Oxford, from the Department for Education’s register - 48 of them. 11 are the size we usually start with.

  • Pegasus SchoolPrimary, around 480 childrenOur usual size
  • John Henry Newman AcademyPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Church Cowley St James Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 460 childrenOur usual size
  • Wood Farm Primary SchoolPrimary, around 380 childrenOur usual size
  • Larkrise Primary SchoolPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
  • St Nicholas' Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 380 childrenOur usual size
  • St Swithun's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • St Mary and St John Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, OxfordPrimary, around 380 childrenOur usual size
  • Windmill Primary SchoolPrimary, around 620 childrenOur usual size
  • St Philip and James' Church of England Aided Primary School OxfordPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Rose Hill Primary SchoolPrimary, around 270 children
  • Bayards Hill SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Barton Park Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Orchard Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Windale Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • St Christopher's Church of England School, CowleyPrimary, around 310 children
  • Tyndale Community SchoolPrimary, around 280 children
  • St Frideswide Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 330 children
  • St Francis Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • East Oxford Primary SchoolPrimary, around 280 children
  • St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, LittlemorePrimary, around 240 children
  • New Hinksey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Botley SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • New Marston Primary SchoolPrimary, around 260 children
  • Cutteslowe Primary SchoolPrimary, around 300 children
  • William Fletcher Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Chalgrove Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • Great Milton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
  • Wheatley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 260 children
  • St Barnabas' Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • St Ebbe's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 250 children
  • Wootton St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Stadhampton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Sandhills Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Garsington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Beckley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 70 children
  • St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, OxfordPrimary, around 210 children
  • St Aloysius' Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
  • Little Milton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Wolvercote Primary SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
  • St Michael's CofE Primary School, Oxford CityPrimary, around 190 children
  • North Hinksey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 320 children
  • West Oxford Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Horspath Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • Cumnor Church of England School (Voluntary Controlled)Primary, around 200 children
  • Kirtlington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 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 Oxford

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 Oxford 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 Oxford

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 Oxford 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 Oxford

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 Oxford 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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