Scoring 85 to 90 % in practice papers- good enough?

[Sabanna]

I've been reading this with interest and am now sitting here chuckling to myself

So the fact that my daughters both play violin and one also plays clarinet (she's upstairs playing at the moment without me telling her to) means that we are middle class!! That's news to me

Neither myself or my partner went to Uni and neither of us are "professionals".

We live in what I fondly term a modern two up, two down (and that's because the toilet isn't a modernised outhouse ).

So yep, I'm chuckling away to myself here at some of the "definitions"

[yoyo123]

But do you enjoy playing it ?
And did you read all of Swallows and Amazons ?

i used to enjoy it a lot - just that no-one around me liked hearing it!

Never even read ONE Swallows and Amazons

[katel]

Being middle class is nothing to do with money.

But the fact remains that the kids who go to grammar school are laregely richer than the kids who don't.

Deny it as much as you like - it's a fact.

[capers123]

Music lessons can be free for those unable to pay, as can instrument hire & membership of County music groups.

[push-pull-mum]

Playing a musical instrument is virtually the definition of middle class.

Not in my house it isn't!
Amazing the variety of musical instruments you can get on a bus.
Round our way you can rent practically any musical instrument (admittedly not a piano or a harp - I asked!) from the council for £90 a year - half that if you're on benefits.
In the end we were given our piano for free by a school governor.
Went to a Music Services concert at the weekend and I would say that the kids performing there were from every kind of background and no more likely to be at the Grammar than one of the Comps.

As far as musical instrument/11 plus success ratio goes - inconclusive.

DD plays 3 instruments and if off to the Comp. Presumably because she doesn't like Harry Potter? I have read all 7 books more than once - and shall do again. But I'm tonedeaf.

[capers123]

Playing a musical instrument is virtually the definition of middle class.

That doesn't explain why so many of our local comprehensives have very good music departments.

[katel]

Lots of middle class children in comprehensives!

[tokyonambu]

Playing a musical instrument is virtually the definition of middle class.

That doesn't explain why so many of our local comprehensives have very good music departments.

So what? There's plenty of middle-class children in comps.

[Glos_Mum]

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[Glos_Mum]

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