DKH - Music and Art teaching

[Fidgetsmum]

Does the school have full time music or art teachers?

[Scruffy Mummy]

This link to the DKH staff list shows 1 full time music teacher and another music teacher who is there 1.5 days a week. In terms of art, it looks like there is a class teacher who is a classroom teacher teaching a year one class and she is also the subject leader for art. There might also be an artist-in-residence who comes in so it's best to check directly with the school about this. http://www.dkh.org.uk/staff People who know the school better will be able to comment more I think.

Goose Green school has a 4 day a week music teacher (althought the staffing chart on the website shows him at 3 days a week at the beginning of last term his hours were increased from 3 days to 4 days). They also get in sessional music teachers to give individual tuition. There is a full-time art and design/technology teacher (i.e. she doesn't teach a regular class but there full time to teach art & design technology and all the students have art and design/technology classes every week) She is a trained artist having done a four year art degree (Maidstone and Vienna) and she also used to be a classroom primary teacher See the Goose Green staffing chart - http://www.goosegreenprimaryschool.org/whoswho.asp

[prickle]

DKH has a fantastic full time music teacher and the music provision is first class, one of the best things about the school. He runs guitar clubs, choir etc etc but the music teaching is v. inclusive so every child gets to perform regardless of their ability.

The best thing is that at KS2, every child gets to play in a steel pan group and perform at the summer fair. Kids love it and the parents too.