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NMPAT Nene Valley 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 General Musicianship, Jazz, Folk and Drama

View the full timetable here: VC timetable

There is also a special centre wide project in the pipeline that we are super excited about and will be announced on 12^th September at the NMPATVC Induction meeting. Email VC@NMPAT.co.uk for more information.

What can you do at Nene Valley Centre?

Nene Valley Music and Performing Arts Centre is based at Oundle Primary School. There are lots of different musical and artistic opportunities for the young performers of the Oundle area. Come and see us!

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

Young Performers

The Young Performers club runs throughout the morning and is split into three distinct sessions:

At 9am, children of reception age through to Year 3 can participate in musical activities followed by a dance session at 9:55am.
At 11:05am we offer a beginner ukulele class for children up to Year 4.

Musical theatre

We have a thriving musical theatre community with a class for children in Year 6 and above, and this is complemented by separate, age-specific, dance and drama classes.

Instrumental musicians

For our more traditional musicians we have a number of instrumental ensembles catering for a wide range of ability and experience.

These include:

Rock school

For those budding rockers and future pop stars, our rock school runs throughout the morning, and there is also a beginner acoustic guitar class at 9.55am.

Performances

There are plenty of performance opportunities during the year including our Christmas concert and fayre, rock school showcase, Thrapston Charter Fair and our summer concert.

Find out more by visiting our Facebook page.

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. We look forward to welcoming you!

Where and when

Where do we meet?

Under normal circumstances we meet at:

Oundle Primary School
Cotterstock Road
Oundle
Peterborough
PE8 5HA

When do we meet?

Saturday mornings during term time: 9am to midday.

Term dates for the current academic year

NMPAT Centre weeks 2020-21

The autumn term will begin virtually – please 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 brass teacher, Shaun Moffat.

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

You can also 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 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

Autumn Term at NMPAT

Thank you to all of our partner schools who have enabled us to return to teaching this term. It is so good to be working with children and young people again. We are already back in 92% of the schools who have booked teaching for this year and are making plans with the others. We have also begun delivering 70 First Access projects in primary schools this term.

County Groups are meeting for smaller and shorter face to face rehearsals in addition to on-line meetings and Youth Theatre, Young Actors Company & Northampton Contemporary are all meeting at Kettering Road on Saturday afternoons. Our NMPAT Virtual Centre continues to meet on-line and preparations are well underway for the massed centre film performance at the end of term.

Visitors to Kettering Road will notice some changes, including hand sanitisers, a one-way system in the corridors and restricted waiting spaces. Please help us to make the building safe for everyone by adhering to these new procedures. Please see our Policies page for an up to date version of the Coronavirus Risk Register. You can see what we’ve been doing in our COVID secure video. We are extremely sorry, but anyone who has been instructed to isolate by their school cannot attend lessons or rehearsals for the period of their isolation. You are welcome to join us on-line.

Thank you to all the amazing staff, schools, students and parents that are making this possible – we are delighted that we are starting to be able to make Music and Theatre once again!

NMPAT is back!

Peter Smalley, Chief Executive