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Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

Scottish Schools Freestyle Championships – 2021- Online

Results

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust​

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust​

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust​

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust​

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust​

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust​

Building resilience, teamwork and confidence​

Freestyle - 2021 - Online!

Freestyle - 2021 - Online!
The Scottish Schools Freestyle Championships took place online from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 March, with 16 bands battling it out for the prizes. Films were broadcast over the evenings of Thursday 25, Friday 26, and Saturday 27 March, with an exciting People's Choice Award and the competition results announced on the Sunday.
Performances & results

About

About
Resilience and teamwork, perseverance and confidence - these are just some of the transferable life skills that pupils develop when they play in a pipe band, along with a sense of pride and belonging within the school and community. Widening opportunities to learn the pipes and drums in schools also helps, on a national scale, to safeguard Scotland’s unique cultural heritage.
More about SSPDT
Annual Report and Accounts

Learning in Schools

Learning in Schools The Trust helps to extend and sustain piping and drumming in Scotland's state schools, with a focus on remote and disadvantaged areas. We supported 3,750 pupils in over 270 schools last year. More partnerships are pending, and new enquiries are welcome.
Schools programmes

Grants

Grants
Apply for single and multi-year cash grants towards piping and drumming tuition, as well as other costs such as drums or travel.
Apply now

Social Media

Pipe Bands 4 Schools @Piping4Pupils
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 at 8:03am
Up to £1000 for young people who want to get together and create something! Perhaps a group of pipers and drummers, and other musicians could create some new music together - freestyle - and apply for some technology to help...
https://t.co/pd9KWsATUm
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Pipe Bands 4 Schools @Piping4Pupils
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021 at 11:38am
MEPG will be running free training sessions on an 'Introduction to Audio Editing & Mixing for online music making' starting on Thursday 22 April.
More info and sign-up details at the link below. https://t.co/8fVkXxgDXP
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Pipe Bands 4 Schools @Piping4Pupils
Monday, April 5th, 2021 at 10:23am
Last chance - applications close tomorrow... https://t.co/dsnuERKDoc
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Free Bagpipe Loans

Free Bagpipe Loans
SSPDT's national Bagpipe Lending Scheme lends pipes, and concert chanters, to schools and other organizations, free of charge.
Apply now

Pupil Entrepreneur Award

Pupil Entrepreneur Award
Young pipers sharpen their business, teamwork and performance skills in this entrepreneurship award; their reward is to earn and keep their own set of loaned SSPDT pipes.
Golden Ticket Award
  • “I’ve seen kids come in here with no self confidence and seen the changes that learning an instrument can bring about. It’s amazing to see what piping can do. Learning a skill, making friendships that will last a lifetime, being part of something.”



    Iain Watson
    A tutor in Govan schools, former World Championships winner and member of the Strathclyde Police Band

  • “The Preston Lodge Pipe Band has grown quickly from a tentative group of new players into the flourishing figurehead of our school and its community.”



    Gavin Clark, Head Teacher
    Preston Lodge High School, East Lothian

Learning Hub

Learning Hub
SSPDT has co-created 55 new piping and drumming teaching roles in schools, so far. We provide networking, professional development events and resources for piping and drumming tutors working in schools.
Learn more

Paid Internships

Paid Internships
SSPDT’s paid internships offer training to pipers and snare drummers, and are a proven gateway to teaching careers in schools.
More about Paid Internships

Stay in touch and support

Stay in touch and support
Get in touch
Gift a set of bagpipes or donate
Help develop a pipe band programme
Apply for grant funding
Apply to our Bagpipe Lending Scheme

The Championships

The Championships 65 bands, quartets for beginners, and freestyle for a fusion of instruments and music. It's the world's largest schools piping event!
The Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships
  • Preston Lodge High Schoo - UK Championships 2015
  • Introducing Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band
  • Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band in China 2013

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