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NMPAT Daventry Centre

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.

Centre timetable for 2019 to 2020

Daventry Centre Timetable 2019 to 2020 (PDF 247KB)

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?

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

Centre opening dates for the current academic year (PDF 415KB)

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 (Word 132KB)

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

Monday 29th June

The NMPAT office is now open again and is being manned daily to answer your calls as well as respond to your emails. This is an important step towards being able to open the building again, but at the moment we are still not able to hold any rehearsals or deliver any lessons on site. If you do come to visit us you will be invited to observe social distancing and additional hygiene measures.

We are talking to schools about when we may be able to start visiting them again and are making plans. We look forward to the time when we can also be back in school delivering face to face lessons and rehearsals.

All activities, events and regular face to face teaching remain suspended and our events are cancelled up to the end of term:

Our first NMPAT on-line Virtual Centre will meet on Saturday 4^th July
County Auditions are underway with a new virtual audition format and we have received lots of video auditions
Plans for all activities to start in September are underway, either virtually, or face to face

Almost all the teaching staff of the Trust remain furloughed, although HMRC have given permission for some on-line sessions to take place on a voluntary basis. Some people have asked about donation channels and these remain open at Virgin Money Giving, Local Giving and through Parent Pay. We really do appreciate your support.

Please stay in touch with our NMPositiviT team who are posting daily on our social media sites. We are aiming to find ways to keep you busy, practising and engaged in what we do. Check out #NMPositiviT.

We look forward to a time when we can all come together and begin to make music and theatre together again. Until then, stay safe, stay healthy and keep practising.

Peter Smalley, Chief Executive

Monday June 29th