Ensemble Opportunities
Ensembles are an exciting, and crucial way to develop the musical offer in your school. Allowing pupils to apply their musical knowledge and skills to a range of ensemble opportunities can strengthen musicianship skills and provide them with a wealth of transferable skills.
As part of our aim to provide children and young people to have access to a range of music making activities in and out of school, a school can opt for financial support through our funded opportunities for extra-curricular ensembles and choirs run by visiting teachers or practitioners.
How can we help you?
No matter what your vision for music, there is an ensemble out there to suit your pupils.
In the academic year 2022-23 Kent Music funded over 190 weekly ensembles taking place in schools across the county! These ensembles were of all types and sizes and range from school orchestras to guitar groups, mass choirs to chamber ensembles, rock groups and even music technology groups.
If you’d like to discuss how Kent Music could help to provide an ensemble in your school or develop ideas for groups in in your school, contact us below.
FAQs
How many ensembles can Kent & Medway Music Hub fund for me?
The amount of funding the hub provides is all based on an application process, the need in the schools as well as our budgets. Each year we try our best to fund as many ensembles as possible, however, it is dependent on how many schools apply.
Can Kent Music provide me with an ensemble leader?
Our teaching staff are skilled to deliver a range of ensembles based on their teaching instrument/s. Whether Kent Music can provide the ensemble that you need is dependent on staffing in the local area and availability.
How do I make sure I get my Funded Opportunity?
The allocation of a Funded Opportunity is based on Kent Music receiving a completed survey and application from the school. This period opens in the summer term and all applications are collated and budgeted for ahead of the summer holidays. We try our best to inform schools of their funding allocation before the holidays.
I run a choir in my school can Kent Music provide funding?
The hub funding can only be used to subsidise the running costs of ensembles run by non-salaried school staff. Where a classroom teacher or department head runs the ensemble, this is at the cost to the school, we can support with funding where a visiting tutor or private peripatetic teacher delivers and ensemble,
Why do the hub only part subsidise the cost of MusicPlus?
We are proud to provide funding to schools to support the running costs of ensembles for their students. We are one of the only remaining music hubs to continue to directly fund schools in this way. It is not the role of hubs to provide free access to music education, and the National Plan for Music Education states that schools are expected to contribute financially to music making projects.