It's pretty good now, but this was not always so. It's just an ordinary Catholic primary school, but it happens to employ a specialist music teacher. I've been there since 2004, teaching class music lessons to all students from Kindergarten to Year 6.
For the first 5 years I had a very good setup in a different location. However that room was demolished in 2010 as part of a radical and fundamentally flawed major rebuilding of the school. All the keyboards, percussion instruments and other resources were packed away while the builders were on the premises, and I moved from class to class, lesson by lesson, attempting to teach music in open plan learning spaces - alongside 2 or 3 other classes in the same physical space! I was then informed that the rebuilt school would not contain a new music room, and that this peripatetic and highly problematic approach to music teaching would have to continue into the indefinite future. Eventually reason prevailed, a new school leadership team allowed a separate music room to be re-established, and I've slowly built everything back up again.
Here's a panoramic view of the whole classroom. The organ is located at the far end of the photo near the tall black cupboard, just to the left of the TV. It's positioned back to back against the large black Yamaha keyboard on its stand.
The aim is to allow all students to experience an organ, even at the most basic levels. I have just purchased some "Ped-X-Tend" units from Wayne Leupold Publications in the USA. When fitted, these will allow the youngest students, right down to Kindergarten, to play a few pedal keys.
Andrew