Christchurch School of Music

The CSM office is located at 60 Ferry Rd. The office is open from 9 – 5, Tuesday through Friday . If you need help with enrolment, wish to hire an instrument or have been sent by your teacher to pick up some music the office is the correct address.

Although teachers occasionally do teach from this address, most of our teaching happens at Catholic Cathedral College which is located at 62 Ferry Road. We also use Marian College on a Saturday morning which can also be accessed via the Ferry Road carpark.

On a Saturday morning we have an office assistant who helps show people around, answers questions, takes payments and manages the tuck shop. We encourage our students to keep the focus on the music on a Saturday morning and deal with major administrative issues during the week as it is such a busy morning for staff.

Buying an instrument can be an expensive and daunting experience. For this reason, CSM offers low cost instrument hire to all students enrolled in lessons.

Most CSM lessons, orchestras and ensembles occur on a Saturday between 8:30 and 3:30. We encourage students to attend Saturday lessons if possible as this makes it easier for them to feel a part of our wider community. View our ensemble timetable.

At CSM, the whole family can easily learn together and, if you enrol early, we will do our best to schedule family lessons at similar times! If Saturday morning isn’t possible, lessons can normally be scheduled at a convenient time during the week.

CSM has about 1000 students, so in order to communicate effectively with students a combination of email messages, written notices and updates on our Facebook page are used to let students know what is happening. Please let the office know if computer access is an issue and we’ll do our best to communicate with you using other means.

• Your music in a clear-file folder – in most cases you will have a CSM folder issued. Please take care of it and return it at the end of the year.
• A pencil (a B or 2B are softer and easier to erase)
• An eraser
• A music stand
• Your instrument

Most importantly PLEASE make sure everything is well-named. Every year we end up with music stands and folders with no names on them so we cannot return them to their owner.

Please leave your digital devices away in your bag and turned off

Unless otherwise advised, concert dress for performances is as follows:

Girls

• White shirt or dressy top
• Long black skirt or long black pants or knee-length black skirt with black stockings
• Black shoes
• Hair tied back off face
• Minimal makeup and jewellery

Boys

• White shirt (tucked in)
• Black pants
• Black socks
• Black Shoes

Please note

• No sneakers
• No clothes with obvious logos or printing
• No coloured items under white shirts
• No shorts
• No ¾ pants

There will be a great tuck shop operating all Saturday morning from the staffroom in the B Block at Catholic Cathedral College.

At the tuck shop you will be able to purchase hot and cold drinks, muffins, chips and chocolate with the occasional surprise so come along, relax and enjoy a snack.

If your group would like to use the tuck shop for fundraising please contact the CSM office and we will arrange a date for you.

The Tuck Shop provides students with an opportunity to have a break and is a fantastic way to meet others so that you can feel more a part of our musical community.

We also have a regular sausage sizzle throughout the morning. This can be used for fundraising for CSM groups or outside groups wanting to fundraise for other causes. Please contact the office – this opportunity will be offered on a first come first served basis

These are the Saturday dates. If you have a lesson or ensemble during the week it will generally take place in the week following the Saturday. However this may be negotiated with the teacher

TERM 1 (9 weeks)

9 February

16 February

23 February

2 March

9 March

16 March

23 March

30 March

Please note Saturday 6th April will not be a teaching day except for our Take Off with Music classes.  The last Saturday is 13th April

13 April

TERM 2 (8 weeks)

4 May

11 May

18 May

25 May

8 June

15 June

22 June

29 June

TERM 3 (10 weeks)

27 July

3 August

10 August

17 August

24 August

31 August

7 September

14 September

21 September

28 September

TERM 4 (7 weeks)

12 October

19 October

2 November

9 November

23 November

30 November

7 December