In this section:

• Overview
• Pre-Prep Department
• Prep Department
• Year 3 and 4 Department
• Art Department
• Classics Department
• Design and Technology Department
• English Department
• French Department
• Geography Department
• History Department
• ICT Department
• Maths Department
• Music Department
  • St. Cecilia Mass and Concert
  • Carols at Douai
  • Music Calendar
  • Choral Concert
  • Palm Sunday
• RE Department
• Science Department
• Examination Revision

Music Department

The Oratory Prep School Music Department welcomes all who enjoy music, whether beginner or scholarship candidate, pupil, teacher or parent, classical enthusiast or wannabe rock star!

All children in the school have class music lessons. In addition they may choose to take one or more individual lessons with our team of eighteen instrumental and vocal specialists who between them offer tuition on all orchestral instruments, piano, voice, drum kit and guitars. Currently just under three quarters of the children do so.

The most visible aspects of the music department are our numerous ensembles. Young singers are welcomed into Junior Choir from which they may progress to Senior Choir or Choristers. All the choirs perform frequently at home and away; Junior Choir travelled to mid Wales to take part in the Beulah Festival, Senior Choir regularly take part in the Wellington Choral Day and Choristers have sung Evensong in Brecon and High Mass in Notre Dame de Paris.

To be a member of our outstandingly successful Jazz Band is the ambition of all our young wind players. They tour regularly, most recently to Germany and Torquay, and are in demand for school functions and fund raising events. Sax Group and Clarinet Choir give the less experienced the chance to play as a group and orchestral wind players join wind band as they become able.

Violin, viola and cello players of grade one and above belong to string ensemble and there is a flourishing Suzuki group which nurtures even the youngest beginners.

We boast two Rock Groups, coached by an experienced drummer, and young pianists have the chance to play in ensembles specially arranged for them by one of our talented team.

All Oratory Prep School musicians are encouraged to perform regularly; in assemblies, concerts and services as soloists, in groups and as collaborators with others, notably the Oratory School.

We believe that music offers unique opportunities for self expression and personal development, and that this supports the school's aim to find the best in each individual child, while giving participants the chance to work together towards a common goal and serve the community in regular and special events.