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Instrumental tuition for Guildford schools

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

In Guildford the lesson comes to the child. Our teachers work inside the school building during the school day, which is the only reason a lot of families manage it at all.

There are 29 primary schools in and around Guildford. The largest is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, with around 720 children, 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
29
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 Guildford

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

THE REGISTER

Primary schools in Guildford

Guildford's schools as we have them. A school we have never been asked about is a school we have probably never approached.

Every primary school in and around Guildford, from the Department for Education’s register - 29 of them. 6 are the size we usually start with.

  • Northmead Junior SchoolPrimary, around 350 childrenOur usual size
  • Burpham Primary SchoolPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
  • Boxgrove Primary SchoolPrimary, around 650 childrenOur usual size
  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 720 childrenOur usual size
  • St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
  • Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior SchoolPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
  • Weyfield Primary AcademyPrimary, around 160 children
  • Guildford Grove Primary SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
  • Clandon CofE Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Cranleigh Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
  • Merrow CofE Controlled Infant SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Merrow Junior SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Sandfield Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Normandy Village SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Tillingbourne Junior SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
  • Stoughton Infant SchoolPrimary, around 290 children
  • Chilworth CofE (Aided) Infant SchoolPrimary, around 70 children
  • Shalford Infant SchoolPrimary, around 90 children
  • Pewley Down Infant SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
  • Queen Eleanor's Church of England SchoolPrimary, around 320 children
  • Bramley CofE Infant School and NurseryPrimary, around 110 children
  • Onslow Infant SchoolPrimary, around 150 children
  • Shere CofE Aided Infant SchoolPrimary, around 50 children
  • Wonersh and Shamley Green CofE Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Puttenham CofE Infant SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • St Nicolas' Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • Peaslake Free SchoolPrimary, around 20 children
  • Wood Street Infant School and NurseryPrimary
  • Worplesdon Primary SchoolPrimary

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 Guildford 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 Guildford

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 Guildford

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 Guildford 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 Guildford

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 Guildford 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.

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