Take Part

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Music Education Hub works with numerous schools and partner organisations to deliver exciting music making opportunities for children and young people aged 5-18 years in Nottinghamshire.

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Resources

Inspire Music offers instrumental and vocal lessons, and FREE ensemble / choir opportunities via Zoom plus access to music teaching resources for Early Years to Key Stage 4. FREE for Nottinghamshire maintained and academy schools and their pupils.

Get FREE resources, weekly videos and worksheets for children aged 3-16 on our Inspire Music Resources pages.

Access is via a password, please register below:

PARENTS: Registration Form

SCHOOLS: Registration Form

Online Music Lessons

Request out of school online music lessons led by our Inspire Music teaching staff. Inspire Music can offer one-to-one instrumental and vocal lessons via Zoom.

Please sign up below for details on pricing and our online safeguarding policy:

PARENTS: Registration Form

In-School Music Lessons

Inspire Music can also arrange peripatetic music teachers to visit your school. Our teachers can offer individual, small group, large group, instrumental ensemble and choir tuition. Please contact your school office to ask if they offer instrumental music teaching in school. Feel free to pass on our details, call the Inspire Music team on 0115 977 3287 or email imt@inspireculture.org.uk.

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Primary Singing

We run an after school (term time only) FREE online junior mixed choir Inspirations.

Secondary Singing

Through our partnership with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) and the Royal Concert Hall Nottingham we can support your school choir's vocal development, provide exciting performance platforms for your singers and an opportunity for them to surpass their own expectations. Our annual programme of vocal development and performance opportunities are led by their artistic director, their professional tutors and their Fellowship singers. NYCGB lead in school workshops in spring and autumn terms, with performance opportunities in late spring and at Christmas.

We run an after school (term time only) FREE online senior mixed choir Inspired Voices.

Music Professional Partners

Inspire Youth Arts, based at The Old Library, Mansfield, deliver numerous workshops, studio sessions and inspiring performance opportunities year round., with encouragement and support for all abilities. Rock School, Able Orchestra, Singer-Songwriter Academy... we have it covered.

National Youth Choirs of Great Britain champions choral singing and music making for young people across the UK. They run choirs for more than 1000 enthusiastic participants from around the UK aged 9-25.

Arts Award

Music Hub funding allows us to support schools with pupils wanting to achieve Arts Awards. Discover costs may be covered 100%, while Explore at a heavily subsided rate.

Professional support from Music Mark

Music Mark, the UK Association for Music Education run a Schools Membership scheme which is FREE to Nottinghamshire county based maintained or academy schools.

For over a decade our Hub have been nominating our most musically proactive schools with FREE annual Music Mark School membership.

Digital Music Resources from Charanga

Charanga provide our digital music offer. Their suite of programmes include; Musical School (Primary), VIP Studio Sessions (Secondary) and Music Professional (Instrumental Teacher)

All are designed to provide excellent classroom resources which support the new music curriculum. Nottinghamshire maintained and academy school receive a subsidised quote, as this resource is financially supported by ACE / DfE funding.

If you have any questions about our opportunities, please email us at nottsmusichub@inspireculture.org.uk.