Kia Ora Koutou,

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas as we head into the last two weeks of term 4.

We also want to thank all of you for being wonderful supporters of the Wellington Music Centre this year and to all our students it has been really special to see you learning and growing throughout the year in your musical skills

Finally thank you to all of our team for their amazing effort this year in providing music classes and operating the Wellington Music Centre at Miramar North School and online lessons when required.

Our 2022 class enrolments are open for booking

We are happy to announce that enrolments for the 2022 WMC classes and instrument hire are now open for booking!

We encourage you to book your classes early to ensure you have the class you want. Your class booking can be changed at a later date on or before term 1 starts on Feb 12 2022.

Steps to enrol and confirm your class times You can either access these via Enrol now on our website or the mobile app.

1. Review and confirm the instrument types you want your children to learn for the 2022 year.

2. Sign into your account (or sign up if you haven't completed this before).

3. Review our 2022 music classes and match to your child’s learning level (Level 1 is beginners, level 2 is intermediate and level 3 is advanced) - discuss these with us our tutors if you are unsure.

4. Make a booking by completing the booking form.

5. Select your child’s 2022 enrolment plan and instrument hire - add these to the cart and pay for them all in the one order.

6. You will receive an email notification for your class booking and enrolment payments.

Please Note

Not all music classes are available for booking at this time as we are in the process of recruiting new tutors for some of our instruments classes in 2022.

These will be announced and made available to book online as the new tutors are confirmed.

Instrument hire returns and holiday hire

Instruments that have been hired are due to be returned by your final lesson this Term. Tutors will be collecting hired instruments from students at the end of their final lesson on December 11th 2021.

If you know you will not be returning to the Wellington music centre in 2022 and are not able to make this lesson then we ask that you please return your instrument to your tutor today.

If you would like to continue your instrument hire in 2022 we have a special offer for you that allows you to hire your instrument over the holiday period if you would like to. Please contact us on contactus@wellingtonmusiccentre.org.nz to request the code for the summer instrument hire plans

2021 final classes and End of Year performances

Our final classes for 2021 will be held on the 11th December. - the last Saturday session is always a special occasion as our students will be performing songs they have learnt in the year.

These classes will be run slightly differently to usual due to the Covid restrictions.

• The first ten minutes will be spent with tutors practicing and preparing for the students to present their learning to their parents.

• Parents and caregivers will then be invited into the classrooms to watch their children perform.

• We will need everyone entering the classroom to sanitise, wear a mask and manage a distance of at least 1 m when entering the classrooms.

Parents and caregivers are welcome to watch some of the other performances whilst on site that will be happening in the classrooms - it's a great opportunity to hear the range of talent and variety of instruments being played.

Farewell to tutors and to Lea our Music Director

We are sad to say goodbye to Liam (cello), Lydia (saxophone and recorder), Jamie and Jude (guitar), and Lyndsey (Flute and pre-instrumental) at the end of this year.

We wish them all the best for their new adventures and are sure they will be sorely missed at the Music Centre. We look forward to introducing you to the new tutors who will be taking over these classes in due course. Our wonder music director, Lea Hunt is also leaving as she and her family are relocating to Auckland, Lea has been a wonderful person to lead the music centre in our start up year at Miramar North School and we wish her well in her future career up in Auckland.