Big Orchestra Day

A day to bring local schools together to experience playing as part of an orchestra.

Aims

The aim of the day was to share our time, expertise and facilitates with local and partner schools and inspire musical children from those schools, especially if they otherwise might not get the opportunity to be part of a big orchestra and play together in a purpose built music centre.  

Background

Monkton led idea to aid the partnership programme with the local schools and to celebrate 100 years of Disney music. 

Resources

Our purpose built music centre was used for the day and our own senior school orchestra participated and the day was led by the Head of Music Peter Wilson-Lambert.

Lunch was provided for all visiting staff and pupils at no cost 

Performance for parents at the end of the day in Bowerman Hall.

Impact

A really wonderful day for all involved.  Feedback was really positive from Combe Down School who finished off by saying "It will have given ours a great confidence boost today.  What progress they made throughout the day, and the parents were very impressed with the performance."

Pupil Involvement

Visiting pupils were YR4-YR6

Monkton senior school pupils 

Frequency

A stand alone event but due to the success we are considering doing again.