CHILD PROTECTION
River Nore Music Academy is fully committed to providing a safe environment for children and young people, and to safeguarding the wellbeing of our young students in the school.
CHILD SAFETY- SUPERVISION
In-school students under the age of 18 are under supervision during their instruction time only and must otherwise be supervised by a parent/guardian. To ensure your child’s safety, please be sure to pick him/her up promptly after his/her lesson or class finishes. Teachers are NOT responsible for supervising children outside of their teaching times and outside of school.
COVID-19
River Nore Music Academy has put in place preventative measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Further, attending music classes could increase your risk and your child(ren)’s risk of contracting COVID-19. By signing this agreement, I acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and voluntarily assume the risk that my child and I may be exposed to or infected by COVID-19 by attending the business and that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, permanent disability, and death. I understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected by COVID-19 at the Business may result from the actions, omissions, or negligence of myself and others, including, but not limited to, Business employees, volunteers, and program participants and their families
ATTENDANCE
Payment must be made for all lessons/classes, whether taken or missed. Make-up lessons/classes will not be given in the case of student absence. As a courtesy to the teacher, we ask that the school office be notified if a student is to be absent. If the teacher is unable to give a lesson or class, the student may be given the option of taking either a make-up or an class with the student’s own teacher or taking the lesson or class with a substitute teacher. Lessons and classes falling on bank holidays will be rescheduled to another day in the term. You can pay directly to the teacher or on RNMA account IBAN: IE78AIBK93319865215081
DISMISSAL
The River Nore Music Academy reserves the right to dismiss any student due to frequent absences, disciplinary reasons, overdue tuition payments and/or non-compliance with School policies or regulations. In such a case, tuition fees will not be refunded.
ENROLMENT
Enrolment for lessons and courses, in-school, requires a completed enrolment form and full payment of tuition fees. We are unable to hold places on our lesson timetables or in our group courses provisionally and without payment of fees.
RE-ENROLMENT
Students enrolling by term must re-enrol before the end of each term in order to guarantee their place on the school timetable for the next term. Places cannot be held without advance written notification of re-enrolment, as well as full payment of fees or payment plan arrangement. Verbal notice from students, parents or faculty cannot be accepted.
For the new school year, we require that all students – those re-enrolling as well as those new to the school – fully completely new enrolment forms. GDPR data protection legislation means that we cannot apply students’ enrolment information from the previous year to the new school year. Enrolment cannot be confirmed, and students cannot be scheduled until we receive completed enrolment forms and applicable tuition fees. We process and schedule enrolments in order of receipt and recommend re-enrolling early, since teachers’ timetables fill quickly.
PHOTO-VIDEO RELEASE POLICY
From time to time, we take photographs or videos of students in lessons, courses or concerts for possible use on our website or publications. No compensation is provided to individuals who appear in the photographs. Please let us know if you do not wish you or your child’s photograph to appear on our website or publications.
INSTRUMENTS, BOOKS AND EXAMS
The school River Nore Music Academy does not fund textbooks and exams for children who choose to take it. It is recommended that the child has an instrument at home, but the school does not fund does instruments.
COMMUNICATION
Communication with adult students or parents is normally by email or text message. (Please add the River Nore Music Academy’s mobile phone number – (085) 1230344 – to your phone’s contacts.) River Nore’s email:
rivernore.ma@gmail.com. Please ensure that we have up-to-date contact details for you, especially your email address and mobile phone number, and please check your emails on a regular basis.