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NMPAT Daventry Centre

While Centres are not able to meet in person, we have a brand new initiative: NMPATVC our new virtual Centre.

Just like the regular centres you don’t need any experience to join in, and there is something for everyone who enjoys Music and the Performing Arts to participate in.

Sessions will be held on Saturday mornings from 9.30-12.30 via Zoom. There will be a timetable of activities including:

A welcome and warm-up session
Instrumental ensembles for all standards
Musical theatre
Adult community choir
Weekly workshops including GM, Jazz, Folk and Drama

View the full timetable here: VC timetable

What can you do at Daventry Centre?

NMPAT Daventry Centre meets at DSLV every Saturday morning in term time. We pride ourselves in offering activities that are relevant and of current interests to the young people in the town and surrounding area.

A timetable of face-to-face activities will be made available once we have confirmation around resuming meetings at the Centre.

A recent addition to our timetable is a Ukulele class which has proved extremely popular for all age groups. Another new venture is Rock School, for those wanting to specialise in Rock, Pop and contemporary music.

These are in addition to our usual popular classes which include:

junior and senior orchestras
jazz, wind bands
choirs, brass group
3 x string orchestras
drama, dance
chamber music
percussion groups
music technology
guitar ensembles
keyboards
recorders
mini-strings
music-making – something for everyone, (all abilities) from age 4 upwards

We hold our concerts at Christmas and at the end of the summer term; our senior groups perform regularly at charity and community events and we support and enter local and national music festivals. Our priority is to give everyone an opportunity to perform in a friendly and supportive environment.

The Rock School has several other performances throughout the year, with many of its members starting their own rock bands at school.

Find out more by visiting our Facebook page.

Come for a free taster session

If you would just like to come and see what we do, you would be most welcome to come for a free taster session. Just turn up and someone will be able to show you what there is to see.

Where and when

Where do we meet?

Under usual circumstances we meet at:

Danetre and Southbrook Learning Village
Hawke Road
Southbrook Estate
Daventry
Northants
NN11 4LJ

When do we meet?

Saturday mornings during term time: 9:15am to 12:30pm.

Term dates for the current academic year

NMPAT Centre weeks 2020-21

The autumn term will begin virtually – please register here or contact VC@NMPAT.co.uk for more information.

In the event of unavoidable closures, information will be via the centre on our Facebook feed.

Contact details and subscription information

The centre head is local strings teacher, Rachel Cliffe.

You can email the centre: daventry@nmpat.co.uk

You can contact the main NMPAT office.

Before you start

There is some important information we would need in order to safeguard your child to the best of our ability. Please complete the Student essential details form below and return it to your Centre Head

Centres Essential Details form

How much does it cost?

Please see the payments page for details of membership subscriptions and how to pay.

Help us reduce costs by paying online through Parent Pay and please consider Gift Aiding your membership subscription so that we can avoid raising subscription rates unnecessarily.

How to pay – ParentPay shop >>

Policies

You can find our child protection policy, code of conduct, and photographic policy on our policies page.

How to find us

Coronavirus and NMPAT

15th January 2021

As a result of the Third National Lockdown and closure of schools, we are making plans with partner schools who are able to facilitate on-line lessons, and have started work in some of them. We are aware that not all schools will be able to facilitate this, and not all staff may be in a position to deliver lessons. We will provide lessons wherever circumstances allow.

County Group rehearsals and individual lessons will not be taking place face-to-face during the period of the Lockdown. We have reduced the number of County Group rehearsals that we will be meeting on-line. County Group conductors and teachers will share details of on-line sessions with their groups.

We will continue to follow Government guidance when considering options for the future and will return to face-to-face activity as soon as this is permitted.

The NMPAT Virtual Centre is meeting on Saturdays and welcomes any new members or visitors who may like to join us. To register for the Spring Term as a new students please visit use the online form.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support us through this difficult time. We look forward to seeing you all later in the year, and hope to invite you to a performance sometime soon

Peter Smalley, Chief Executive