The Greater Essex Music Hub is a partnership of organisations, including the Music Services of Essex, Southend-on-Sea, and Thurrock, schools, which enables children and young people from all backgrounds and every part of the geographic area of the Hub to deepen their enjoyment of music and to progress to the highest levels of excellence.

 

The Greater Essex Music Hub aims to provide high-quality, diverse, sustainable music education opportunities for all children and young people.

• We strive to ensure that opportunities are available regardless of a child/young person’s background or circumstances and that those reaping the benefits represent the varied demographic of the county we serve.
• The music education delivered should ignite and foster a passion for music with children and young people that develops lifelong skills as well as helping to raise ambitions and standards in other educational areas along with developing expressive and inter-personal skills.
• We believe that a broad, diverse and innovative musical offer gives children and young people the greatest opportunity to find a pathway through music education which is right for them.
• We maintain that a connected music education offering is crucial to support progression routes and strong outcomes and therefore we deliver or support a range of high-quality music education offerings.
• We passionately believe in our ability to create dialogue, interactions and activity between classroom/curriculum music educations; digital learning, instrumental or vocal tuition; community music activity; song-writing and music technology and more.
• Our responsibility is not just to deliver work, but also to connect the music education and cultural landscape across Essex and beyond, and that is why partnership working is so crucial and will be at the heart of all we do.
• We will continue to engage and offer support to all LA schools, Academies and Free Schools supported by the Department for Education, as well as engaging with parents, children and young people in dynamic and positive ways.