View the full timetable here: VC timetable
NMPAT Kettering is run by a fantastic team of enthusiastic and experienced teachers who provide an exciting and comprehensive variety of music, dance, musical theatre, and drama sessions for all children aged 3 to 18 years old.
A timetable of face-to-face activities will be made available once we have confirmation around resuming meetings at the Centre.
Our early years class is for children aged from of 4 to 7 years and is a thriving and exciting programme that gives our young performers experience in singing, dance, theatre and ocarina.
The class runs from 9 to 11am, with an option for any child who is in year 2 to join our main centre groups from 11am to 12pm at no extra cost.
For younger children, who find a two-hour session a challenge, there is an option to attend part of the session at a reduced rate. Please contact Andy Macfarlane for more details on kettering@nmpat.co.uk.
For our younger students who perhaps have not started to learn an instrument yet, we offer an introduction to music through the use of instruments such as the guitar, recorder, keyboards and drums, and also encourage the children to sing in our centre choir.
Our other music groups include two orchestras, wind band, brass group, traditional / folk group, strings, guitars, drums, recorders, and rock bands.
We cater for all abilities – from the absolute beginner to the more advanced – and we cover an extensive range of musical genres from classical to rock and folk.
We are currently able to offer several dance classes – for beginner to advanced, and these include two mixed dance groups: boys only street and ballet/tap. We have 3 fantastic dance teachers to take you through your steps and provide a wealth of styles.
The drama and acting skills groups are a great place to build confidence and give our pupils an insight into the technical elements of drama through activities, games and performance opportunities.
We have two musical theatre groups including our Training Musical Theatre for our younger students and those who are less experienced and are wanting to build up their skills.
Each year our musical theatre groups stage a full production. Previous productions include: Bugsy Malone, Oliver, Annie, The Boyfriend, Fiddler on the Roof Junior, Guys and Dolls Junior, Back to the 80’s, Fame Junior and Singing in the Rain Junior and Annie. We will be putting on our 2019 show at the end of June.
In 2013 we won the NODA Award for Best Youth Production in the Eastern Region District 7 for our production of Fiddler On The Roof Junior. We have also been nominated for our productions of Guys and Dolls, Back to the 80s and Fame.
National Operative and Dramatic Association (NODA) gives advice and support for amateur theatre companies, to help achieve the highest standards of best practice and performance. They review performances and give out awards for best production and competitions for the best programmes and posters. For more information, see their website.
We hold concerts each term with a workshop day in the summer term. We have evening concerts for our senior groups.
Our senior groups perform regularly outside the centre at charity and community events. The centre also takes part in local and national festivals.
The centre runs a monthly relaxed sing-along which is suitable for children with additional needs and their families and carers. These run from September to July.
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.
Under normal circumstances we meet at:
The Latimer Arts College
Castle Way
Barton Seagrave
Kettering
NN15 6SW
Saturday mornings during term time: 9am to 12pm.
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.
The centre head is brass teacher, Andy Macfarlane.
You can email the centre: kettering@nmpat.co.uk
You can also contact the main NMPAT office.
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22nd February 2021
Our members and supporters will naturally be interested to know what the Prime Minister’s announcement today will mean to NMPAT. Sadly, at the moment it is too soon to be certain. As schools will be open to all pupils from 8th March, we hope that our staff will be returning to face-to-face teaching. However, we await confirmation that visiting teachers are permitted to restart work in schools.
Individual teaching out of school, and rehearsals of County Groups are governed by guidance for Out of School settings which have not yet been updated in the light of the recent announcement. We remain committed to restarting activities as soon as it is safe and permissible to do so.
We hope that both of these questions will be answered very shortly.
In the meantime, our county rehearsals will continue on-line with their amended timetable and we will be delivering lessons on-line where it is possible. 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 has expressed sorrow and support at the loss of our colleague Jon Lloyd. The warmth of feeling towards Jon and his work for NMPAT has been a great support at this very difficult time.
Peter Smalley, Chief Executive