Click here to find out more about our amazing Leics Make Music - Winter 2020 Festival of events and how you and your School, Community Group or Choir can take part.

Updated 3rd November 2020

Welcome to our website.

At Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service, the health and well-being of our audiences, musicians, participants and staff is of the highest priority. The Coronavirus pandemic is a fast-changing and difficult situation for us all, and we are supporting musicians, staff, parents and our audiences as best as we can. We'd like to thank everybody for their understanding and patience.

Latest advice and guidance about music in schools during new lockdown
We hope that you are keeping safe and well during this challenging time. We have had new advice from DfE and ACE about music teaching in schools which we wanted to share with you and with our schools.
Face to face teaching and ensemble work at music centres or in schools after school hours or at the weekend will need to cease from tomorrow (4 November) for four weeks. The guidance can be found here: The text to note is under 'Stay at home':

Education and childcare
You can leave home for education (formal provision, rather than extracurricular classes such as music or drama tuition), training, registered childcare and children's activities that are necessary to allow parents/carers to work, seek work, or undertake education or training.

Musical learning during the school day which is provided by music services and other hub partners will (and should) continue and that this must be made clear to schools in the guidance and any direct communication with them

Advice from the DfE and Arts Council England is that we continue to work with schools to deliver music provision as long as it complies with the most recent 22nd Oct advice from DfE

DfE and ACE are keen that music services, hubs, teachers are as flexible and supportive to schools as possible as long as activities are safe and compliant. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you want further support, advice or clarification.

Obviously the situation may change rapidly – we will keep our Covid 19 Information & Guidance page updated.This contains the latest guidance for Leicester and Leicestershire schools on safe musical learning. We are continually reviewing our Risk Assessments with regard to Covid 19 - LSMS Covid 19 Risk Assessment 10.11.20

We have also been working on free Primary School and Secondary School resources to help music education continue where music staff and / or instruments are unavailable.

Visit our Musical Solutions page to find out how we can help with innovative distance learning. We are committed to delivering high quality music education and are working with Schools to ensure that young people's music education can continue.

If you have any queries about our projects, bookings or any way we might be able to help music making in your school please contact a member of our team using the email link or mobile numbers below.

Percussion, Strings & Ukulele - Matt Newnham - 07961 098088
Brass & Guitar - Tony Rifugiato - 07944 712233
Woodwind & Singing - Nicki Atkins - 07508 013201
Steel Pans - Gillian Ramshaw – 07535 641847
Music Technology – Brad Smith - 07508 013232
Special Schools - Sarah Share - 07905 502657
Secondary Schools - Sharon Jagdev Powell – 07936 349073
Curriculum Resources and Support - Becky Bell
Instrument Queries – Richard Siddons - 07889 809841

If we are unable to answer – please leave us a message with a contact number and we will return your call as soon as we can.

We will be in touch with schools regularly with more information about how we can support you and your students.

If you are a Student / Parent / School looking for free activities, please click on Student Learning where we are continuing to upload new resources every day. You can also find resources on our Youtube channel, split into playlists for different instruments and activities. Lastly, you might want to explore our Performance archive.

If are interested in playing in one of our Performance Group, please click here for information - Peformance Groups, including how to join and how things will take place moving forward.