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Wellingborough Centre has a wide and exciting range of activities in all aspects of performing arts, including bands, choirs, keyboards, ukulele, string and jazz ensembles, dance, drama, musical theatre and theatre tech and sound. We cater from early years (children from 4 years old) up to adults. Our classes are all inclusive and you don’t need an instrument to join us.
We provide keyboards, ukuleles, recorders, ocarinas and plenty of percussion.
A timetable of face-to-face activities will be made available once we have confirmation around resuming meetings at the Centre.
Our Early Years programme is designed to help children of all abilities acquire musical knowledge, concepts and skills through singing and movement games. Classes include singing, untuned and tuned percussion (drumming and glockenspiel), art, ocarinas, recorders, violin and cello; and through performance – bringing stories alive through music and drama. All instruments are provided.
Students with a general interest in the arts can choose from music sessions such as afro drumming, beginner guitars, ukuleles, recorder, rock and pop academy, choir, musical theatre, drama, art classes and keyboards, which need no previous experience and for which instruments can be provided.
For those already learning an instrument groups include orchestras, jazz bands, wind bands, brass band, folk band, ukulele groups, guitar groups, a variety of string groups and choral groups.
We cater for all abilities – from the absolute beginner to the more advanced – and we cover an extensive range of genres from classical to rock, jazz and folk together with musicianship, exam support and theory training.
Adults are welcome in many of our groups and we have two stress-busting classes for adults only:
The drama and musical theatre groups are a great place to build confidence, and give our pupils an insight in to technical elements of drama through activities, games and performance opportunities. Musical theatre includes specialist training from our vocal coach.
In March 2015 WM & AC Junior Wind and Junior Strings came first place in the in the annual Wellingborough Rotary Music Festival.
At national level we have a proud record of achievement in the National Festival of Music for Youth with groups from the centre qualifying for the final, obtaining many awards and three appearances at the School Proms.
There are a multitude of performance opportunities throughout the year, and our members play an active part in local events, concerts and festivals.
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. Following your taster session, membership is subject to a subscription – please see the payments page for details of membership subscriptions and how to pay.
Under normal circumstances we meet at:
Wrenn Academy
London Road
Wellingborough
Northants
NN8 2DQ
Saturday mornings during term time: 9:15am to 12:15pm.
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 local brass teacher, Andy Johnson.
You can email the centre: wellingborough@nmpat.co.uk
You can also contact the main NMPAT office.
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.
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 >>
You can find our child protection policy, code of conduct, and photographic policy on our policies page.
Wellingborough Centre has a wide and exciting range of activities in all aspects of performing arts, including bands, choirs, keyboards, ukulele, string and jazz ensembles, dance, drama, musical theatre and theatre tech and sound. We cater from early years (children from 4 years old) up to adults. Our classes are all inclusive and you don’t need an instrument to join us.
We provide keyboards, ukuleles, recorders, ocarinas and plenty of percussion.
A timetable of face-to-face activities will be made available once we have confirmation around resuming meetings at the Centre.
Our Early Years programme is designed to help children of all abilities acquire musical knowledge, concepts and skills through singing and movement games. Classes include singing, untuned and tuned percussion (drumming and glockenspiel), art, ocarinas, recorders, violin and cello; and through performance – bringing stories alive through music and drama. All instruments are provided.
Students with a general interest in the arts can choose from music sessions such as afro drumming, beginner guitars, ukuleles, recorder, rock and pop academy, choir, musical theatre, drama, art classes and keyboards, which need no previous experience and for which instruments can be provided.
For those already learning an instrument groups include orchestras, jazz bands, wind bands, brass band, folk band, ukulele groups, guitar groups, a variety of string groups and choral groups.
We cater for all abilities – from the absolute beginner to the more advanced – and we cover an extensive range of genres from classical to rock, jazz and folk together with musicianship, exam support and theory training.
Adults are welcome in many of our groups and we have two stress-busting classes for adults only:
The drama and musical theatre groups are a great place to build confidence, and give our pupils an insight in to technical elements of drama through activities, games and performance opportunities. Musical theatre includes specialist training from our vocal coach.
In March 2015 WM & AC Junior Wind and Junior Strings came first place in the in the annual Wellingborough Rotary Music Festival.
At national level we have a proud record of achievement in the National Festival of Music for Youth with groups from the centre qualifying for the final, obtaining many awards and three appearances at the School Proms.
There are a multitude of performance opportunities throughout the year, and our members play an active part in local events, concerts and festivals.
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. Following your taster session, membership is subject to a subscription – please see the payments page for details of membership subscriptions and how to pay.
Under normal circumstances we meet at:
Wrenn Academy
London Road
Wellingborough
Northants
NN8 2DQ
Saturday mornings during term time: 9:15am to 12:15pm.
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.
The centre head is local brass teacher, Andy Johnson.
You can email the centre: wellingborough@nmpat.co.uk
You can also contact the main NMPAT office.
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.
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 >>
You can find our child protection policy, code of conduct, and photographic policy on our policies page.
27th February 2021
We welcome the news that all children will be returning to school from 8th March. We are already discussing with schools start dates for our return and look forward to seeing many of our pupils face to face as soon as possible.
Individual lessons out of school and County Groups are still restricted by the “stay at home” order, and much as we want to, we are unable to resume lessons or rehearsals at Kettering Road until the introduction of Step 2 of the Roadmap to end Lockdown. This will be Monday 12th April if all goes well.
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