Diana Springford – Head of Music

Instrument Maintenance Check Day

Tuesday 1 December 2020

If you are borrowing any school instrument (for IP, for ISP, or for your ensemble playing) please bring it into the Music Department by 8.15 am on Tuesday 1 December 2020 to be checked and serviced by our team. Regrettably, any instruments which are not serviced in our maintenance check will need to be taken by parents to be serviced at a music shop at their own expense. Please pick your instrument up on Thursday, unless you get an email from us or are returning it permanently. 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.

Private Music Tuition and Infant Strings Program for 2021

Please note that from 2021 the cost of individual private music lessons will be charged at a rate of $46.00 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 are only available in special circumstances and would cost $24.00 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 $262.00 per term on school fees, in addition to an instrument bond of $200.00 which is fully refundable on safe return of the instrument with all parts and accessories.

 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, 2021 has now passed. 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 2021, 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 the term to avoid being committed to the full term of lessons and liable for fees. Please contact Matilda Grieve if you have any questions about private music tuition.

The schedules for Term 1, 2021 will be created at the end of term and emailed in late January.

Links to online forms  

• New enrolment requests for private tuition
• To discontinue private tuition
• To enrol into the K-2 Infant Strings Program (ISP)
• To discontinue Infant Strings Program (ISP)