MUSIC AND DANCE SCHEME
(including Choir Schools Scholarship Scheme)
"Access to Excellence"
"The aim of the scheme is to help identify,
and assist, children with exceptional potential, regardless of
their personal circumstances, to benefit from world-class specialist
training as part of a broad and balanced education, which will
enable them, if they choose, to proceed towards self-sustaining
careers in music and dance." - Music and Dance Scheme Advisory
Group's Report 2000/01
- Do you know a child with a special talent in music or dance?
- Would he or she benefit from special training?
- Would they need help with the costs of their training?
If you answered yes to all these questions, you
have come to the right place.
The Department's Music and Dance scheme currently enables over 1,600 exceptionally talented children to have access to the best specialist music and dance training available alongside a good academic education. Around half of those children hold Aided Places in the participating residential schools and half are attending Centres for Advanced Training (CATs) and benefiting from the national grants scheme so that they can gain access locally to high quality, out of school hours training. The Music and Dance Scheme also supports choir schools in their work and provides a limited number of scholarships for talented young Choristers attending them. This website gives information about the music and dance scheme, which schools and centres participate in it, how to apply for a place, and about recent and future developments.
– a celebration of the Music and Dance Scheme and its beneficiaries will be held at Sadler’s Wells Theatre on 15-16 July 2008. Please visit the Excellent! website at www.excellent.uk.com for details and to book tickets.
