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The music service for Wakefield schools

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

Across Wakefield our teachers hold regular slots in school buildings, with practice notes going home after each one and a single monthly payment behind it.

53 primary schools sit in and around Wakefield, the largest of them Westerton Primary Academy at around 660 on roll. Of those, 18 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
53
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 Wakefield

September is the month Wakefield decides. New year groups, new instruments, and the biggest intake of beginners West Yorkshire sees all year.

KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.

What we would teach in Wakefield

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 REGISTER

Primary schools in Wakefield

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

Every primary school in and around Wakefield, from the Department for Education’s register - 53 of them. 18 are the size we usually start with.

  • Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary, around 600 childrenOur usual size
  • Outwood Primary Academy Park HillPrimary, around 450 childrenOur usual size
  • St Michael's CofE AcademyPrimary, around 470 childrenOur usual size
  • Hendal Primary SchoolPrimary, around 410 childrenOur usual size
  • Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
  • Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary, around 390 childrenOur usual size
  • Horbury St Peter's and Clifton CofE (VC) Primary SchoolPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
  • Sandal Castle VA Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 610 childrenOur usual size
  • Ossett South Parade PrimaryPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary, around 360 childrenOur usual size
  • Crigglestone Dane Royd Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary, around 360 childrenOur usual size
  • Horbury Primary AcademyPrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
  • East Ardsley Primary AcademyPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Rooks Nest AcademyPrimary, around 370 childrenOur usual size
  • Westerton Primary AcademyPrimary, around 660 childrenOur usual size
  • Outwood Primary Academy Ledger LanePrimary, around 460 childrenOur usual size
  • Robin Hood Primary SchoolPrimary, around 420 childrenOur usual size
  • Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse GatePrimary, around 440 childrenOur usual size
  • Blackgates Primary AcademyPrimary, around 230 children
  • Outwood Primary Academy Newstead GreenPrimary, around 220 children
  • Crigglestone Mackie Hill Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary, around 200 children
  • Flockton CofE (C) First SchoolPrimary, around 80 children
  • The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • Sharlston Community SchoolPrimary, around 240 children
  • Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary, around 260 children
  • English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary, around 220 children
  • Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary, around 260 children
  • Stanley St Peters Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary, around 300 children
  • Crofton Junior SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrsPrimary, around 270 children
  • Ryhill Junior, Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary, around 250 children
  • Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary, around 250 children
  • Shay Lane Primary (J and I) SchoolPrimary, around 230 children
  • Thorpe Primary SchoolPrimary, around 220 children
  • Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary, around 210 children
  • St Ignatius Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
  • Middlestown Primary AcademyPrimary, around 220 children
  • Crofton Infant SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
  • Carlton Primary SchoolPrimary, around 320 children
  • Sitlington Netherton Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
  • Hill Top Primary AcademyPrimary, around 220 children
  • Stanley Grove Primary and Nursery AcademyPrimary, around 230 children
  • Outwood Primary Academy KirkhamgatePrimary, around 230 children
  • St Austin's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary, around 310 children
  • Crigglestone St James CofE Primary AcademyPrimary, around 300 children
  • Wrenthorpe AcademyPrimary, around 310 children
  • Walton Primary AcademyPrimary, around 340 children
  • Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
  • Horbury Bridge Church of England Junior and Infant AcademyPrimary, around 130 children
  • Jerry Clay AcademyPrimary, around 210 children
  • West Bretton Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary, around 120 children
  • Grange Moor 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.

THE SAME ROUND

Near Wakefield

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.

ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP

From a first conversation to music in a Wakefield 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.

WHO PAYS, AND WHEN

Who pays for a place

A place has one payer and never two. Which one applies at a school in Wakefield 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 Wakefield

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

Bring the music service to your Wakefield 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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