8am: For those early birds! Free choice of musical activities and games, or individual help with practice.

9am: Whole group teaching session, introduction of daily theme, highlighted styles and composers and team building games.

10am: Break, practice, play

10.30am: Small group teaching. Children are grouped into ability/experience levels and teaching focusses on developing specific skills, knowledge and repertoire.

11.30am: Games related to theme and outside play.

12.15: Lunch time (and there’s now a tradition of hide and seek following lunch!) Please note that children will need a packed lunch.

1.15pm: The Little After-Lunch Concert, where all are invited to play if they wish, or just listen to others. A great opportunity to try out performance skills and listening skills.

2pm: Collaboration session 1: Structured teaching session, which involves improvising, composing and refining work as a duet or larger ensemble.

3pm: Quick play out!

3.20pm: Collaboration session 2: Completing work from earlier in the afternoon, and performing for and with others.

4pm: Artwork connected to theme. Children use the music, places, times and composers they have learned about during the day to get creative and crafty (and a bit messy!).

5pm: Wind down and chill out before home. Often Madalina will play a special little requests concert for us, or there might be a game of music theory ‘Dobble’ on the go!