Service and Community
Music in the Community
Sevenoaks School has had links with the musical
activities of the local community for centuries. The
Sevenoaks Festival, now a successful town-wide event,
started within the school in 1970. This interest in the
music of the town continues into the present day,
both with student-based activities outside the school
and with local groups coming into the school to use
The Space.
Musical activities based within the school involving
the community include student musicians
entertaining the elderly visitors at the Thursday Club
run in Sennocke House; the annual prep and primary
school concert giving local children the opportunity
to perform in our wonderful Pamoja Hall; the school
Wind Band which invites primary school children to
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join them in playing at one of the Music at Sevenoaks
concerts each year; chamber music groups taking part
in the Knole Community Music Event; the Gamelan
VSU group which runs as a weekly event for visiting
children and the Christmas carol competition which is
open to all local children.
Outside the school, our student musicians perform in
local care homes and regularly visit schools to help
younger children with composition. New initiatives
are in the pipeline to help with class music teaching
in our local primary schools on an outreach basis,
and the people of Sevenoaks are always very pleased
to welcome our musicians into their community,
something of which the Music department is
justifiably very proud.
Jackie Hendry
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