How our lesson rooms work

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Please keep a student home with a fever, a stomach bug or a bad cough, and let us know by text or a call so we can offer the time to someone on the waitlist. Singers and wind players, tell your teacher about a cold before the lesson.

We close for a week at Thanksgiving, over the winter holidays and for severe weather. We text families by early afternoon when weather closes the school, and a lesson we cancel is made up.

Parents of younger students walk them to the lesson room and wait in the hall. We hand a student only to the grown-ups on the pickup list, and we ask for ID from anyone we don't know.

A parent may sit in on any lesson, and we ask the parents of the youngest students to stay for the first few. Showcases and recitals are open to families and friends: arrive early, silence phones and clap at the end of each performance.

Tell us in writing a month before the last lesson, by email or at the front desk. We will explain what happens to a term in progress.

Wear what you can play in. Closed shoes for drum lessons, and comfortable clothes for everyone. Showcase and recital days are concert dress, which means a clean shirt and trousers or a skirt.

Phones stay in a pocket or a bag during a lesson. A teacher may ask to record a passage so you can practice from it at home.