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Summer Term Dates Available
Posted: 27/03/18
All summer term dates in all schools are now available to view online. Please go to ‘Information for Parents’ What’s on at My Child’s School Type in the full name of the school and you will be able to view all teaching dates.
Read more »Jack Hendy and Avenoir band
Posted: 23/01/18
Avenoir have just released their official video: Our very own Jack Hendy (Drum student of Alison and Ollie at Learn to Rock) and his Leeds based band ‘Avenoir’ won the Battle of the Band competition (in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice) staged last Thursday 20 July at the Leeds O2 Academy. Bands from all over the country battled it out in […]
Read more »Gareth Allatt Success at the Royal Northern College of Music
Posted: 23/12/17
We are delighted to announce that Gareth Allatt, one of Alison’s Bass Guitar students, has been successful in gaining a place at the prestigious Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. After a gruelling day of auditions, Music theory exams and interviews and with over 700 Bass Guitar applicants for 6 places Gareth was successful and has been offered an […]
Read more »Spring 2018 Teaching Dates Online Now
Posted: 17/11/17
The Spring 2018 teaching dates have been sent in the recent newsletters to parents. Please also find the details of all our teaching dates in all schools by checking as follows 1. Homepage 2. Parents- Information for Parents 3. What’s on at your Child’s School? 4. Type in the full name of the school
Read more »Fantastic Summer Session Exam results
Posted: 03/10/17
Well done to everyone who took Music exams this summer. Great results all round. Well done students and tutors for all the hard work and effort which goes into preparing for the exams. Alison Exam Results Summer Session 2017 Name of Student Year Group Exam Board Instrument Grade Result Sam Evans 5 Associated Board Classical Guitar 3 Distinction Rory Andrews […]
Read more »Jack Hendy and Avenoir
Posted: 07/09/17
Following the recent performances by Avenoir and our Jack Hendy (Drums) at the O2 Academy in Leeds and Reading/ Leeds Festival check out ‘Upcoming Events’ to see details of upcoming gigs and single/ video release.
Read more »Celebrating the Success of Former Student
Posted: 25/08/17
Celebrating the success of former Learn to Rock student: Ben Walker: bass guitar: tutor: Alison Smith 2001 to 2007 We would like to acknowledge the tremendous success of a former student of our Director Alison Smith: Ben Walker. Ben was a student at Dixons City Technology College from 2000 to 2007. In that time Ben was a committed musician to […]
Read more »Autumn Term Dates Posted Online
Posted: 17/07/17
All the Autumn term dates for all if our schools can be found on our website now. Go to Home Page Information for Patents What’s on at My Child’s School Then type in the full name of your child’s school
Read more »Fantastic Year 12 Composing
Posted: 24/05/17
Here we see Torrell working with Alison on one if his BTEC compositions. This is a fantastic piece and for the first tutorial Alison was extremely impressed. Watch this space for more if Torrell’s composition and song writing.
Read more »Jack and Alison are Working in Jack’s Leavers Assembly Performance
Posted: 05/05/17
This week in Jack’s lesson Alison was working on helping Jack pick a fantastic set of songs to perform in his Year 11 leavers assembly in Friday. They decided on a mixed set of songs featuring: Latin, a fusion of Reggae Metal and a heavy Rock song. Jack sounds fantastic! It should be a great assembly!
Read more »Year 6 to 8 Performances
Posted: 03/05/17
Here will see some of our Year 6 to 8 students at work on preparing performances for our Summer Performance.
Read more »Year 3 Guitar Work
Posted: 03/05/17
Our Year 3 Classical and Electric students are working hard and producing outstanding results. Here we see some pre grade 1 Classical Guitar work and one of our new students learning the art of improvisation over a given song.
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