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Daily Habits

07th

Feb

2022

7th February 2022

If there’s one thing that successful people have learned, it’s the benefit of applying yourself consistently, and daily, and that is especially true for musicians.

Getting the daily practice habit may sound daunting, but it should not be a big deal. All you need do is begin your practice every day, and if possible set a reasonable minimum, and good things will happen.

If you are just getting started, ten minutes per day to begin with may be enough, and will give you something to build on. In order to achieve this, some of us will need encouragement, and younger children usually depend on this, so parents should make an effort to find imaginative ways to help make this possible.

After a few weeks of regular practice, the benefits will already be noticeable, by which time good practice habits are well on the way to becoming ingrained. Better yet, faster progress is it’s own reward, and having already proved you can do it, you wouldn’t want to stop now while you are winning.

Join us now, and maker quicker progress towards excellence than you ever dreamed possible.


Christmas and New Year Holidays

18th

Dec

2021

18.12.21

Thank you for making this your number one choice for music lessons for yet another year.

The Northern Music Academy is closed over Christmas, and open from Wednesday 5th January.

Wishing Peace, Love and Happiness to all our students and their families.


Safer Sound

13th

Sep

2021

Music Makes it Better

13.09.21

You can seriously enhance your life with music, but trust the people at Northern Music Academy to take care of you on your journey and you will enjoy it a whole lot better.

We are the people who care, and we look at everything in the round, to make things as easy as possible for you. You just have to bring yourself, your ambition, your enthusiasm, and a willingness to practice, and we’ll supply the rest.

Because the pandemic is still very much with us, we have protocols of care in place to protect everyone, including the most vulnerable children and adults who attend. For example, in order to to keep risk to a minimum for our students our shop has not been open since early in 2021, and even now the opening we have planned is restricted, and it will not be open at busy times for lessons.

Make sure you fully understand the restrictions; they are there to protect you and everyone else, which should make visiting Northern music Academy just as safe as going to your doctor’s surgery.


Covid Policy Update

20th

Jul

2021

20.07.21

As Paul McCartney once said to Rupert Bear,

”We All Stand Together”

Rupert and the Frog Song, Movie Short, 1984

We continue to check local Covid infection rates almost daily. Doing so, in recent weeks we have observed the local infection rate rise from 29.7 per 100,00 people to 733.1* per 100,00, (figure as of 19th July) – that’s quite an increase! (around 25 times).

As important as your music education is to us, more important still is the shared responsibility we take for one another’s well being.

While some people may suffer only mild symptoms, or even no symptoms at all, for others the outcome from catching Covid can be long term adverse effects on health, including any of over 200 long Covid symptoms, which may include permanent organ damage or even worse.

We feel we all have a duty of care, including to the young who have not been vaccinated. This is why we will all continue to wear masks and continue with the hand washing protocol.

Additionally, because all known data supports the fact that covid 19 is an airborne virus, we will refrain from returning to offering larger classes for the time being, to allow us better to maintain social distancing.

We continue to protect each other and do our utmost to keep everyone safe, including the young, the vulnerable, and anyone else that vaccination does not fully protect.

*As a footnote, by the next day, 20th July, the figure for Pontefract North West had risen to 954.2 per 100,000, almost at the extreme end of the national spectrum for that day.

“Whatever risk Covid may present, rest assured we will do our utmost to prevent you catching it here.”

Teachers and Staff, Northern Music Academy 20.07.21