Wilkins Public School

Consideration, care, courage

Telephone02 9560 3309

Emailwilkins-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Wilkins Music Program

We have many different ensembles at Wilkins.

Fees

Annual Wilkins Music Association fee $80 (covers music purchases, teacher training, equipment purchases) NB: If your child is in more than one ensemble, you only pay this fee once.

Annual instrument hire $200 (includes general maintenance and servicing)

Private tuition: approx $40 for a half hour lesson (once a week) please check with individual tutors.  

Rock Band, Junior Strings and Concert Band: as these ensembles have been outsourced, they attract an additional fee of $10 per student per rehearsal to cover the cost of the ensemble directors.

Instrument Tutors

Clarinet and Saxophone
Katie Sharpe

0412 855 229

katie.sharpe33@gmail.com

French Horn Rory Hodgson

0490 477 993

roryhodgson05@gmail.com

Guitar Darrell Archer

0433 225 494

darrell.c.archer@gmail.com

Flute & Saxaphone Samantha Cheng

0422 556 221

samantha.cheng11@gmail.com

Violin Juliet Lochrin

0421 636 050

fourstringsviolinstudio@gmail.com

Piano Melanie Herbert

0420 409 229

m.l.herbert@gmail.com

Abigail Hatherly 0412 357 833
Alex Magliveras

0424 607 106

alexmagliveras@hotmail.com

Drums and Voice Toby Graham

0451 679 329

tobycbg@gmail.com

 

How to hire an instrument

Email wilkins-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au who will send you an invoice to pay the hire fee. Once you have paid the instrument will be delivered to your child at school.

Note: If you hire an instrument from the school your child must participate in an ensemble. 

The instruments that are not available for hire include: guitar, piano, keyboard and drums. 

Practising

Students should be encouraged to practice daily, for a minimum of 10 minutes, even on the weekends. Care should be taken to clean the instrument after each practice session.  Please let Mrs Mee know if your instrument is missing a cleaning cloth, polishing cloth, valve oil, cork grease, or a swab. Ask the tutor to demonstrate how to clean the instrument.

Problems with an instrument

Please email wilkins-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au  ASAP and she will organise for the instrument to be repaired. Please do not try to fix instruments, it often causes more problems - just leave it to the experts!

Music Directors

  • Recorder Consort: Mrs Mee
  • Junior Choir: yr 3 and 4: Mrs Haifa/Ms Patch
  • Senior Choir: yr 5 and 6: Mrs Mee/ Ms Bookallil
  • String Orchestra: yr 4-6: Ms Juliet Lochrin/Mrs Mee
  • Junior Strings: yr 1-4: Ms Juliet/ Mrs Mee
  • Training Band: Ms Samantha Cheng
  • Concert Band: Mr Joe Gould
  • Rock Bands: Mr Darrell Archer

Please email contacts at wilkins-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Wilkins Music Ensembles 2025

Wilkins Public School is very fortunate to have a wide range of music ensemble opportunities available to its students. These include both instrumental and vocal ensembles.

Below are the teachers, rehearsal times, days and location for each music group.

Stinglings TBA      

Rock Bands

Yr 3 - 6

Mr Darrell Archer

Monday

Lunch time 

Hall

Infants Singing Club

Yr K - 2

 

Mrs Jo Smyth

Starting Term 2

Monday

3:05 - 3:45pm

Music Room
Training Band Ms Samantha Cheng

Tuesday

7:50 - 9:00am

Hall
Recorder Consort Mrs Mee

Tuesday 

7:50 - 9:00am

Music Room
Brasslets TBA      

String Orchestra

Yr 4 - 6

Ms Juliet Lochrin/Mrs Mee

Wednesday

7:50 - 9:00am

Hall
Rhythm Sticks TBA      
Junior Strings Ms Juliet/ Mrs Mee Thursday 7:50 - 9:00am Music Room

Junior Choir

yr 1 - 4

Mrs Haifa/Ms Patch

Thursday

3:10 - 4:00pm

Music Room

Senior Choir

yr 5 - 6

Mrs Mee/ Ms Bookallil

Thursday

3:10 - 4:00pm

Hall
Concert Band Mr Joe Gould

Friday

7:50 - 9:00am

Hall
Wild Winds TBA Ms Samantha Cheng