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"I have no hesitation in recommending Practice Pal to any music department, it is the only software package that I have come across that supports administrators, teachers, parents and students alike and genuinely enhances every aspect of this complicated dynamic"
Dan Anthony – British School Muscat
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Hi, I’m Ross.

I am a music teacher at my core. This means I am determined to help budding musicians fall—and stay—in love with learning music. In 2018, I took a leap of faith from teaching to EdTech because I was seeing first hand an unjust amount of obstacles getting in their way.

The problem was threefold:

  • Students were giving up on learning their instruments because it no longer felt enjoyable
  • Schools were prioritising other departments, with many leaving their music programmes to languish
  • Parents were unaware of the value of music for their child’s development

These collective missteps had been preventing too many music students from reaching their full potential, right before my eyes. I deeply felt that it was time to shake things up. 

I teamed up with Cambridge-educated computer scientist and one-man band James King to see if we could apply technology to these problems in a convenient and user-friendly way. The app-based approach we developed, Practice Pal, transforms how schools, teachers, parents, and students move through music education together.

We are Practice Pal, by musicians for musicians.

Ross Garrod
Founder, CEO & Music teacher

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What do teachers have to say?

cockburn
King edward boys
King edward vi academy trust
King edward vi girls
sherrardswood
sidcot
South end girls
St Mary Radcliffe
Wilsons
woodrush
“We have been using Practice Pal Music since the outset and have found this resource to be invaluable in scheduling music lessons, publishing teachers’ timetables and lesson notes to both students and parents, improving communications as well as keeping everything online and in one place.
Karen CroysdillSouthend High School for Girls
Karen Croysdill
"Practice Pal has really helped our Music School from an administrative point of view. It is easy to schedule lessons from week to week, with intuitive tools to help solve the classic timetabling issues faced by Music Departments. Technical support is prompt and personable: I would have welcomed access to this kind of platform years ago!"
Matt DuryHead of Music, Bruton School for Girls
Matt Dury
"Practice Pal has transformed the timetabling of Performing Arts in our school. It has some fantastic features; has the most phenomenal support team; and whatever it doesn’t have, we feed back and within a very short time, there’s a new feature! A brilliant, time saving and visual tool."
Louise BlythHead of Instrumental Studies, Sandroyd School
Louise Blyth
Practice Pal continues to reduce the administrative burden for School Support Staff and Peripatetic Music Teachers. The support and training that we have received from Practice Pal in setting up the system has been exceptional and the system is continuously being upgraded. We are excited about some of the newer features such as MIS integration.”
Karen CroysdillSouthend High School for Girls
Karen Croysdill
"We have found Practice Pal to be an intuitive and efficient way of monitoring student attendance. The platform provides us with an essential safeguarding measure, whilst also allows our peripatetic teachers instant flexibility with their timetable scheduling."
Jack FisherActing Head of Music, Nonsuch High School for Girls
Jack Fisher
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