Our very own Mrs Kaye-Shepheard in the music department has been shortlisted for the Inspiration Award at the Music and Drama Education Awards 2025 in recognition of her work at Etone College.
In her time at Etone College, as well as teaching music, she has worked to create musical opportunities for our students including performances at the school including our upcoming Christmas concert on 19th December and our Grease musical spectacular in January 2025. Our students have even performed alongside other Matrix schools at Millennium Point in Birmingham, with the Kings Singers in St Mary’s Collegiate Church in Warwick and at The Royal Albert Hall alongside Armonico Consort and The Orchestra Of The Swan. Students at Etone College have an opportunity to get involved in a wide range of different types of music – there really is something for everyone and music here continues to grow!
Outside of Etone, Mrs Kaye-Shepheard works supporting other teachers across the Matrix Trust helping to organise cross trust events and even encouraging the other teachers to get up and perform in our cross-trust staff band. She also works as a moderator and examiner to support teachers across the globe.
Mrs Kaye-Shepheard is also an active musician outside of school – as well as playing in a rock band herself, she is in a number of orchestras as a viola player including the British Police Symphony Orchestra who have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for the charity work they carry out. The orchestra will be performing a family friendly gala concert at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Saturday 7th December.
Her first musical opportunity was learning the recorder at primary school and ever since she has continued to learn as much as she can about all different types of music. She studied a BMus at Cardiff University.
On receiving her nomination she said “I became a music teacher because I realised that I wanted to share the joy of making music with a new generation and, here at Etone, I can do just that every day with our students. I always say that the wonderful thing about music is that we all like different things and this makes the world a very interesting place to be. I am very lucky to have students that love music as much as I do!”
If you want to get involved in making music at Etone College, please see our extracurricular timetable and come to P0-1 to find out more about the opportunities on offer.
