Parents and Visitors
Instrumental Music Program
for Parents and Visitors
The first and most important statement to make clear is that the Instrumental Music Program does not run school bands.
The Instrumental Music Program operates Instrumental Music classes in 51 ACT Department of Education primary schools and 2 secondary schools across the ACT. For a full list of associated schools click here - "Associated Schools"
The Instrumental Music classes (band) have a maximum class size of 22 students. For the process used for selecting students please click here - "Yr 5 selection for woodwind/brass classes"
The Instrumental Music classes (fife and recorder) have a maximum class size of 25 students. See fife and recorder page for more details.
There are 3 documents available that may be of interest if you want to find out details of the Program's operation. The first is the "Snapshot" looking at the mechanics of the program.
The second is the rather hefty "Handbook" which has a lot of nitty gritty detail.
The 3rd document is the "Notes for Parents" as issued at meetings at the beginning of the band year.
| Information | based on 2008 |
| Students in IMP Programs | over 2000 ACT public school students |
| Schools in IMP Programs | 51 primary schools, 2 high schools |
| Staff | 10 teaching staff including 1 Executive Teacher & 1 Principal |
| System Bands | 4 after hours extension groups |
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Non band programs |
Fife & Drum (5) as well as Recorder & Percussion (4) |
| Instruments | 2270 at last count |
| Band Scores | 1650 at last count |
