Music scholarship

[Luckyfab]

Hi, my daughter was offered a music scholarship for a secondary school with a 20% discount.
I email the head of music asking approximate schedule of their weekly music lessons and frequency of their concerts.
He replied sending me a long list: being part of the school orchestra, choir, perform at the assemblies, a solo concert with their brass orchestra etc.
Do I need to be worried? Isn't all these a bit too much? I don't want my DD to feel under pressure and I wonder if it is worth to accept the scholarship.

MY dd has a music scholarship.

She was worried (before she started) about the commitment - she didn’t want the enjoyment taken out of music with all the pressure.

She is year 7, and the ‘formal’ requirements from school are: one instrumental lesson per week, plus one music group (could be whatever, choir/orchestra, whatever she prefers)

As it happens, she does more than that anyway, from choice, so is still enjoying it all.

Maybe try clarifying with the school - they may have sent a list of opportunities, rather than requirements? There’s loads more that dd could do, and may do as she settles more at school, but she’s ha ppl with what she’s doing for now.

Meant to say, the requirements change as she moves up the school - more commitment is expected, but generally nothing excessive, and very much with the child at the centre, no just seen as a showcase or asset.

Really depends on school. She might be doing it all anyway, with or without scholarship.

Wouldn't she want to be doing all that stuff anyway as a musician? Left to her own devices, how many groups would she want to play in?

I don't think what they've listed is too much imo.

My DC has one and basically works for the school. I have lost track of her weekly commitments but it is getting on for ten, with the lessons. Sorry. It is a huge commitment but she also she plays two different types of instruments (hence the number of groups) and sings. I hadn't considered how much time she might be having away from lessons; I need to think about that a bit more. She enjoys the social side of it all; it feels like she's in a music school with a school attached some weeks.

My dc has a music scholarship and, while she enjoys the music and groups etc, it is definitely a commitment and she has had to decline other opportunities (eg sports related) in order to fulfill her music commitments.

My DD didn’t have a music scholarship and did all you list plus singing lessons, singing competitions and string quartet which also involved competitions. ! She did it because she enjoyed it.

As Head of House she also organised the House Music competition entries for her house because the music scholars decided they didn’t want to organise it. Just play in it. She was in two choirs and sang in Chapel too. We never had 1p off the fees! If you take the money, there is a price to pay in other ways. A busy child!

Thank you to all of you.
We will call confirm the scholarship and see how it goes . Hopefully she will enjoy all the commitments.