Directly Charged Music Service 2011-12

Cambridgeshire Music

Directly Charged Music Service 2011-12

Key Facts

Who is it for?

This is for schools that want to remove the financial risk from non-payers or fluctuations in requirements from term to term that can occur in instrumental music tuition resulting in a cost to the school. It frees up time for finance and administration staff but still requires music staff in school to be engaged and working closely with visiting teachers and the service, in order to obtain the best development in school. It’s best for schools with larger numbers of instrumental pupils.

What we will do for you:

·  Manage instrumental lesson registrations, contracts, and finances directly with parents

·  Provide information to the school for distribution to all pupils

·  Provide performance management support, access to other support services and benefits.

What does it cost?

Instrumental lesson charges are directly invoiced to parents by Cambridgeshire Music .The school pays an annual subscription based on the total activity with the service and size of the school. If the school orders any class or ensemble activity these are charged to the school as normal. Therefore the school has full knowledge of its commitment across the financial year and can plan ahead with no’ surprises’. Invoicing to schools is carried out in the autumn term and new financial year in April.

What do I do next?

If you are interested in this package contact us for more details at .

Become a Schools Music Partnership:

You can link up with other schools on any of our packages and form a schools music partnership. This gives you enhanced opportunities including:

·  A dedicated partnership manager via the service

·  Access to our parent and school purchase instrument scheme with no admin charges.

·  Free access for all your school pupils to our Area Music Academies (normally this is free only to CM students)

·  Heavily discounted access to the County Music Ensembles for all your school pupils including those learning privately

·  Free access to any of our music training CPD for teachers

·  Flexibility in adjusting activity needs from term to term within the partnership

·  A specific teaching team across the partnership where possible enabling joint activities and events to be organised for pupils

·  A range of Cambridgeshire Music obtained partnership benefits (e.g. masterclasses, concert tickets, special partnership only events). These benefits are constantly changing and being updated and can be viewed on the website.

Best of all - it does not cost any more for a school to be part of the partnership programme.

What do I get for my subscription?

Annual subscriptions are scaled by how much activity is provided in your school and the number on school roll. If you feel your category is incorrect you should discuss this with the service so that we can review your subscription. The subscription gives you access to the following support:

·  Management intervention, monitoring and advice

·  Administrative resources, including finance officer support

·  Our Bursary schemes for your students

·  Our delivered school activities, as ordered

·  Managed directly charged parental accounts for instrumental tuition

·  Information for distribution to pupils and parents (this will normally be by email to you for distribution in newsletters or via parentmail systems)

·  Fully accountable and managed teachers working in schools to national standards

·  Performance management of teachers by trained managers

·  Access to the e-learning site for music teachers in your school Access to the Live Music for Schools scheme

·  Unlimited access to the county instrument bank (for schools and pupils) Preferential rates to the county music library resources Access to support and advice for music development in school including notification of countywide opportunities of benefit to students and schools

·  Access to a KS2 instrumental scheme that meets national criteria (primary)

·  Access to Area Academy at no charge for all students receiving provision from us in your school

Access to KS3 support and advice with regard to Musical Futures

·  Access to classroom music curriculum teachers if required

·  Access to Music Therapy provision for students as required Direct debit payments to spread cost across academic year

·  County Council support and procedures for safeguarding, recruitment and selection, complaint resolution and financial security

Rates

Annual Subscriptions (you can check which Band you are using our calculator)

Instrumental tuition charges – view our direct charges to parents at:

Activities that can be purchased by schools

Other activities are available – see our complete list