Will Hay

Category: News

  • Piano Points Results – Summer 2009

    At the end of the term, the top 10 total piano points achievers are as follows:

    1. piano-points-cupAlice from Tattenhall Park with 43 points,
    2. Sophie from St. Oswald’s with 42 points,
    3. Emily from Tattenhall Park with 41 points,
    4. Beth from St. Werburgh’s and Jacob from Ellesmere Port Catholic High with 38 points,
    5. Sophia and Kate from St. Werburgh’s, Louisa from Queen’s and Joe from Waverton with 36 points.

    This means that at the next concert the piano points cup will be presented to Alice from Tattenhall Park.

    47% of students have achieved the target 28 points for the term and will be receiving a certificate at the beginning of September.

    The top 5 Average points achievers for the term are:

    1. Alice from Tattenhall Park on 3.91 points per lesson,
    2. Louise from St. Werburgh’s on 3.89 points per lesson,
    3. Mollie from St. Oswald’s on 3.88 points per lesson,
    4. Beth from St. Werburgh’s on 3.80 points per lesson, and
    5. Emily from Tattenhall Park on 3.73 points per lesson.

    65% of students have managed an average of 3 or more points per lesson.

  • Letter from Fiona Carr, Kampala Music School

    Dear Will and all your students,

    Thank you very much for the very generous cheque of £300 that you have sent for a KMS bursary. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into performing at two student recitals. We do trust you really enjoyed performing and putting the recitals on and that you enjoyed meeting and hearing Terence Ayebare.

    Your money will go out to Kampala soon and a student will be allocated to you and information about him or her will be sent to you.

    Thank you once again.

    Best wishes,

    Fiona

  • Summer Piano Lessons

    As you are probably aware, I don’t normally teach over the summer holiday but as quite a number of people have asked this year I have decided to make some days available if you would like to keep up with piano lessons.

    The days when they will be available are
    Tuesdays 18th, 25th August and 1st September

    Contact me if you would like to have summer lessons on the latter Tuesdays in August.

    Normal teaching schedule will resume from 3rd September.

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    Teaching Fee Increase and Piano Lesson Agreement

    As you may be aware from the last newsletter, I will be increasing my fee slightly from September to £24/hr for lessons at my home and £28.50/hr for lessons in school or at your home.

    I will also be asking all parents to sign a piano lesson agreement which acknowledges my ’24 hours notice’ lesson cancellation policy. I haven’t actually changed any of the details of this and they are currently printed on the back of every invoice but I thought it would be fair to ask everybody to sign it at the start of the new term, to confirm that they agree to abide by it.

  • Piano concerts raise £300 providing piano bursary for Kampala Music School

    piano-concert-270609 The summer concert, held last Saturday was well recevied by the audience and managed to raise another £140 for the Kampala fund which means that coupled with the money raised from the last concert, a total of £300 will be sent to Uganda, providing a year of 60 minute piano lessons for an African student. Over the course of the year, details of their progress will posted here on the blog.

    piano-points-molliePart of the concert included the first presentation of the new piano points trophy won by Mollie who scored 42 points in the Easter term and gets to keep the silver cup until the next concert, at which point it will be presented to the winner of this term’s piano points competition.

    Audio recordings of all the student performances at the concert have been uploaded to an album in the gallery. The podcast episode features some of these recordings given by Mollie, Louise, Sophie and Alice along with the entertaining closing speech given by the special guest, Terence Ayebare.

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  • Charity Piano Concert – 27th June 2009

    This term’s piano concert will take place in three weeks time.
    (Saturday 27th June 2pm at All Saint’s Church, Hoole)
    As mentioned already in the newsletter, the concerts are supporting the Kampala Music School in Uganda with the aim of providing a piano lesson bursary.

    We are delighted to have a special guest, Terence Ayebare attending this concert who himself was a student at the Kampala Music School and is now studying for a postgraduate degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.