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Staffordshire · ST16

The music service for Stafford schools

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

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

Stafford has 45 primary schools. John Wheeldon Primary Academy is the biggest of them at around 540 on roll, and 6 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
45
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 Stafford

September is the month Stafford decides. New year groups, new instruments, and the biggest intake of beginners Staffordshire sees all year.

THE SAME ROUND

Near Stafford

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.

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Stafford

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

Every primary school in and around Stafford, from the Department for Education’s register - 45 of them. 6 are the size we usually start with.

  • John Wheeldon Primary AcademyPrimary, around 540 childrenOur usual size
  • Parkside Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • Veritas Primary AcademyPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • St John's CofE Primary AcademyPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Barnfields Primary SchoolPrimary, around 400 childrenOur usual size
  • Leasowes Primary SchoolPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
  • Rowley Park Primary AcademyPrimary, around 180 children
  • Doxey AcademyPrimary, around 200 children
  • Tillington Manor Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Silkmore Primary AcademyPrimary, around 250 children
  • Flash Ley Primary SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Castlechurch Primary SchoolPrimary, around 290 children
  • Blessed Mother Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Burton Manor Primary SchoolPrimary, around 270 children
  • Church Eaton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 60 children
  • All Saints CofE Primary School, BednallPrimary, around 40 children
  • St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St John's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Beaconfields Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Colwich CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • Woodseaves CE Primary AcademyPrimary, around 90 children
  • Gnosall St Lawrence Coe Primary AcademyPrimary, around 310 children
  • All Saints CofE (C) First SchoolPrimary, around 40 children
  • Marshbrook First SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
  • Burleyfields Primary SchoolPrimary, around 60 children
  • St Mary and St Chad CofE First SchoolPrimary, around 170 children
  • St Leonard's CofE First SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • All Saints Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 70 children
  • Princefield First SchoolPrimary, around 250 children
  • St Leonard's Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • Bishop Lonsdale Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary, around 290 children
  • St Austin's Catholic Primary School and NurseryPrimary, around 220 children
  • Cooper Perry Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Anson CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 100 children
  • St Michael's CofE (A) First SchoolPrimary, around 150 children
  • St John's CofE First SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Haughton St Giles CofE Primary AcademyPrimary, around 110 children
  • St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary, around 130 children
  • Green Lea First SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Berkswich CofE (VC) Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Oakridge Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 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 Stafford 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.

KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.

What we would teach in Stafford

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 Stafford 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 Stafford

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 Stafford 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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