Diana Springford – Head of Music

Thanks to the Music Department for a mammoth effort on the Primary Musical Lion King Jr. For more about this, please see the dedicated page for more wonderful photos from Ofer Levy.

Instrument maintenance check and stocktake – Week 8 (commencing Tuesday 4 December).

All students who currently borrow a School instrument (including a percussion kit) must bring it to the Music Department on Tuesday 4 December for an instrument maintenance check. This includes those on loan to High School students. Instruments should be clean and have a student name tag attached with the instrument barcode on the reverse. If this name tag is missing, please ask Mrs De Araujo in the music staffroom to label it for you. Full details of the instrument drop-off and collection procedure have been emailed to parents.  

For parents of Year 6 students who are coming to the end of their compulsory Instrumental Program, you have been emailed a survey about the return of your School-loaned instrument and your intentions regarding private music tuition in High School. Thank you to all those parents who have responded. If you haven’t yet done so, please complete the survey at this link: https://tinyurl.com/EndY6IP-Intentions

Private music tuition and Infant Strings Program

Please note that from 2019, the cost of individual private music lessons will be charged at a rate of $44.00 per half-hour lesson (plus GST, if the tutor is registered to pay GST). This is the rate advised by the NSW Music Teachers Association. Lessons shared in pairs will cost $23.00 per student per half-hour lesson (plus GST where applicable). The Infant Strings Program (ISP) for students in Years K-2 will be charged at $255 per term on school fees, which includes the loan of an instrument.

Thank you to those who have already advised us of changes to private tuition and Infant Strings Program enrolments for next year.  The deadline for new enrolments, notification of changes or intention to discontinue for Term 1, 2019 was last week. All students currently receiving private music tuition and students in Years K-1 who are currently participating in the Infant Strings Program will be automatically re-enrolled into tutor schedules for 2019 along with students commencing lessons for the first time. Parents should enrol or discontinue using one of the online forms accessed from the links below. If your child intends to discontinue, formal notification in advance must be received by the end of term to avoid being committed to the full term of lessons and liable for fees. Please contact Deborah Beder by email to music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.auif you have any questions.   

The schedules for Term 1, 2019 will be created at the end of term and emailed in late January.

Links to online forms  

New enrolment requests for private tuition: http://tinyurl.com/NewPrivateTuitionEnrolment

To discontinue private tuition for 2019: http://tinyurl.com/PrivateTuitionDiscontinuation

To enrol into the Infant Strings Program: http://tinyurl.com/InfantStringsEnrolment

To discontinue Infant Strings Program for 2019: http://tinyurl.com/InfantStringsDiscontinuations