This is a round-up of news from Harrow Music Service as we approach the end of term. 

1. CPD Opportunity – Royal Ballet & Opera

Please see the below message from the Royal Ballet & Opera regarding two very exciting fully funded CPD days taking place at Harrow Arts Centre. These are available to teachers in schools as well as Harrow Music Service teaching staff. 

Royal Ballet & Opera is delighted to bring our 

'Create and Sing' Free Teacher CPD in partnership with Harrow Music Service

On: Wednesday 11th March 2026, 9.00-15.00

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Venue: Harrow Arts Centre,161 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, HA5 4EA

This funded CPD is part of the Royal Ballet & Opera’s award-winning Create & Sing programme, a curriculum-led teacher development programme designed for school teachers, music leads, artists and facilitators. Everyone is welcome!

Our team will take you through techniques for teaching singing and drama to build your students’ self-expression, creative collaboration, performance confidence, voice, movement, and memory skills.

 “The best CPD I’ve ever had. I had such a lovely day and we are so inspired to go and create in our school.”

During this CPD training, you will:

• Learn practical, easy-to-implement, warm-up and engagement activities. 
• Explore the building blocks of dramatic singing and learn how to use them to meet Music curriculum outcomes.
• Discover different creative techniques for using singing across the curriculum e.g. literacy.
• Be introduced to the Create & Sing classroom resources.

The day is led by a team of Royal Ballet & Opera artists and is suitable for:

• Class teachers or subject leads
• Teachers who are new to teaching singing
• Teachers who are looking to brush up their skills
• No prior knowledge of opera is required!

Watch a video about the CPD here. 

• Book your place for the Sing CPD on 11th March here. 

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Royal Ballet & Opera is delighted to bring our 

'Create and Dance' Free Teacher CPD in partnership with Harrow Music Service

On: Wednesday 17th June 2026, 9.00-15.00

SIGN UP HERE

Wednesday, 17th June 2026, 9.00 - 15.00

Venue: Harrow Arts Centre,161 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, HA5 4EA

About this CPD: 

This fully funded CPD is part of the Royal Ballet & Opera’s award-winning Create & Dance programme, a curriculum-led teacher development programme designed for school teachers, PE leads, artists and facilitators. Everyone is welcome!

Our team will take you through techniques for teaching dance and storytelling – developing your students' creative collaboration skills, physical learning, spatial awareness and general health and well-being.

During this CPD training, you will:

• Learn practical, easy-to-implement warm-up and engagement activities.
• Explore the building blocks of dance and learn how to use them to meet PE curriculum outcomes.
• Discover different creative ways of applying dance across the curriculum e.g. in numeracy and literacy.
• Be introduced to Create & Dance’s award-winning classroom resources.

The day is led by a team of Royal Ballet & Opera artists and is suitable for:

• Class teachers or subject leads
• Teachers who are new to teaching dance
• Teachers who are looking to brush up their skills
• “The course was fully inclusive for all attendees and I found the content hugely beneficial with so many ideas to take away!”
• No prior knowledge of ballet is required!

Watch a video about the CPD here. 

Book your place for the Dance CPD on 17th June here.

2. National Chidren’s Choir Great Britain – Introduction to Choral Leadership

We have also received information about an opportunity from the National Children’s Choir Great Britain, where applications for their Introduction to Choral Leadership programme are now open.

This programme offers an opportunity for musicians with an interest in conducting a children’s choir to attend a residential course and observe professionals with a wide range of experience in this field. This involves being in a stimulating, creative environment, with talented children from throughout the UK who are highly motivated and enthusiastic. The choir’s repertoire covers a wide variety of genres, both sacred and secular.

Please click the link below to read their email in your web browser and for details on how to apply. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 16^th January.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITY: Introduction to Choral Leadership

3. Mozartists –  Discounted concert tickets for schools and available dates for visiting workshops in schools

We are continuing to work with the Mozartists this year offering visiting workshops to schools with generous funding from John Lyon Charity. These workshops include one day taster sessions for primary schools, a ‘Singing and Stagecraft’ workshop for secondary schools and the Mozart 250 Project, a series of workshops for primary schools culminating in a performance.

The following dates remain available for visiting workshops for schools, offered free of charge. We are particularly keen to place the Singing & Stagecraft workshops in secondary schools. 

Singing & Stagecraft Workshops (for secondary schools):

·                12 February 2026: 9.30-12.00 and 13.00-15.30

·                9 March 2026: 9.30-12.00 and 13.00-15.30

Primary Music Workshops: 

·                15 January 2026: 9.30-12.00 

·                6 February 2026: 13.00-15.30

·                24 February 2026: 13.00-15.30

·                5 March 2026: 13.00-15.30

‘Mozart Birthday Concert’, 27 January 2025 - Cadogan Hall

We are pleased to share with you the Mozartists’ offer of £2 tickets for school children and accompanying adults for our performance at Cadogan Hall on 27 January 2026 (free for children eligible for pupil premium). The Mozartists believe that enabling young people to experience top quality classical music live is essential in building the audiences of tomorrow and are therefore heavily subsidising this important initiative. If you would be interested in bringing a group, or possibly just sharing the opportunity with parents, please contact HMS, and we can liaise with Mozartists to provide details about how to book (we can provide a booking link to send to parents). If there are any groups organised by schools, the Mozartists would be happy to send some resources in advance so that the students are informed about what they will hear, and can arrange a meet-and-greet with some of their period-instrumentalists before the performance.  

This concert will celebrate Mozart’s 270th birthday with a programme of works composed in 1776. The music includes Mozart’s strikingly modernistic incidental music to the play Thamos, King of Egypt, and a ‘symphony’ comprising four movements drawn from his glorious ‘Haffner’ Serenade – one of his earliest (but neglected) masterpieces. Chinese counter-tenor Zheng Jiang will sing Mozart’s only concert aria for alto, and we will perform an exuberantly festive symphony by Haydn. The full programme is available here.