School Policies & Classroom Guidelines
2022 Music School Policies:
Classroom Guidelines:
Please ensure your children are aware of the following policies:
- Students must turn 6 years by the end of April 2022 to enroll for recorder class.
- Students must turn 5 years by the end of April 2022 to enroll for Introduction to Music class.
- Students must complete the Recorder Year 1 programme before enrolling in Ukulele, Beginner Violin, Keyboard or Recorder Year 2.
- Keyboard class provide a 2-year programme only.
- Ukulele class provides a 1-year programme only.
- For level 3 students in instruments such as Saxophone, Cello, Violin, Trumpet, Flute, Clarinet, Trombone, students required to join the Orchestra or Concert band. Orchestra time is from 10 am to 10:40 am, Concert band is 11 am to 12 pm on Saturdays.
- All classes have limited spaces available.
- Classes may be cancelled due to the teacher unavailability, or not reaching the minimum number of enrollments, and any refunds will be applied at the beginning of term 1.
- Parents/Caregivers agree to allow Birkdale North Music Centre to use photos or videos of students taken during lessons, concert or performance events for training or promotional purpose, if you have any concern regarding it please let the music school know.
- Please keep the disabled carparks available for people who need them.
- Parents are required to wear masks to enter the school grounds, except for the people who have exemptions
- It is optional for students to wear masks but they are encouraged to wear face masks when it is possible.
- Wind instrument classes require students to be 1 meter apart in the classroom.
- Regularly sanitize/wash hands-on entry and exit of class.
- Sneeze and cough into the elbow.
- Stay home if students are unwell.
- In a scenario where Auckland enters a COVID19 alert higher than level 1, classes will change to online classes which may include Zoom, Google Classroom or emailed information depending on the class and teacher.
Classroom Guidelines:
Please ensure your children are aware of the following policies:
- No students allowed in the classroom if no teacher in classroom.
- No student siblings allowed in the class.
- No food or drink in classrooms, water bottles are ok.
- Please respect teachers break time of 10:40 am to 11:00 am (no students or parents to stay in classroom)
- Please take shoes off it is a rainy day.
- Parents are welcome to wait in the hall foyer area; no sibling and parents stay in the classroom.
- Please email your child's teacher if your child is going to be absent for music class.
- Helping teachers to set up for the first class and tidy the class up if is the last class would be appreciated.
- Please keep the classrooms tidy and do not touch Primary school properties such as toys, board games, teaching materials, pencils, students' artworks, TV screen, books... etc). We are only permitted to use tables and chairs in the classroom.
- Students will follow the teacher instructions and classroom guidelines, if a student is misbehaving or disrupting the class, the teacher has the right to ask the students to leave.
- If there is any class cancelation due to illness of teachers, the school will inform the parents by emails, please check emails before attending the music school.