Stave House

Stave House Stave House is the first global programme to give children the skills needed to read, write and play

15/07/2025
What a fabulous year Stave House has had! We have welcomed new teachers in Harrow and a new nursery in Risby and schools...
15/07/2025

What a fabulous year Stave House has had!
We have welcomed new teachers in Harrow and a new nursery in Risby and schools that have been using Stave House for a while have been training new teachers. Beehive P. school in Chelmsford are training all 18 staff . Congratulations to all of you for such marvelous work - it is always a thrill to see the awards coming through knowing that so many of those children would not be experiencing a high quality music education and certainly not able to afford private lessons and yet here they are ,thanks to the dedication of our Stave House teachers , reading , writing , playing music and playing instruments . Bocking school saw 15 stave house children playing in the prom on the violin who only learn in the S.H. classroom sessions which Bocking school fund , others took part in a wonderful cultural exchange with visiting children from our S.H. school in Boudjour in Tinduf Western Sahara . We have had our first awards in from Canada . Teachers at St. Jeromes Harrow in the upper school were so impressed by the musical achievements of the lower end of the school using Stave House that they have completed the training themselves to continue it on throughout the school, saying that the children's sight reading has never been so good ! Lakelands Primary in Stanway had its first SH concert involving approx 200 children ! We are so grateful for the commitment to 'real ' music from our passionate teachers and assessors and look forward to another great year with you all . We say Goodbye to Clare Wallington who is retiring and was one of our first qualified S.H. teachers and who has taught literally hundreds of children using S.H over the years . Its not completely goodbye however as Clare will join our assessing team and we will benefit greatly from her experience . I was so glad to meet at last some of the children from Boudjour who have been following the SH programme . Stave House has been sponsoring the music education there since 2015 . I mentor teachers on line but this was the first time I have been able to meet the children on a face to face basis . I was very pleased to run a music day for them and very encouraged to see how well S H has worked for them . They are able to sight read and make music together and the programme has improved their English skills

10/06/2025

Colour Box nursery School in Newmarket has lots to celebrate -teacher Jo Riddell has just completed her level 1 Stave House training -Congratulations !

26/04/2025

We are so pleased to congratulate Fatimetu Malaini from Sandblast Charity in Western Sahara School of Boudjour for completing her Stave House level 1 teacher training . We hope to Welcome Tetu to stay with us in July for some hands on training and mentoring with Ruth . As you can see Tetu is up against not having her large board any more ( sand storms and floods are frequent in WSahara ) - we can sort that when she visits - these resources are durable but the big board was lost when the school was moved . Tetu has sessions with Ruth from the refugee camp every week via face time to improve her piano skills and is supported and funded by Desert Voice -Sandblast with Danielle Smith overseeing the training progress . Ruth and Russell continue to support the charity and sponsor the children award exams each year . Danielle and Ruth are currently arranging a visit for 10 of the National Children's Day UK children to visit UK in the Summer - Ruth will be giving free workshops to these children who study the Stave House method in Boudjour and hopes to take them to a UK school that also teaches Stave house where they will be able to share a lesson together and appreciate each others culture and learning environments .

Music play list for a happy environmentDuring the day play joyful happy music that is not too strident or harsh. Our Top...
08/04/2025

Music play list for a happy environment
During the day play joyful happy music that is not too strident or harsh.
Our Top Suggestions are
Trumpet voluntary -Jeremiah Clarke.
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba -Handel
The Happy farmer -Schuman
Minuet and trio – Boccherini

‘Autumn’ from the four seasons by Vivaldi (Winter is a bit edgy and summer is full of storms -leave those for their tempestuous teenage years along with Mahler and Beethoven except perhaps for ‘Ode to Joy’)

Minuet in G -Bach

Allegro from the Toy symphony -L. Mozart
Humoresque -Dvorak

Spade and Bucket polka -P. Whitlock

We are thrilled to hear from Stave House teacher Dunja in Sarajevowhere the children have recently taken their Stave Hou...
07/04/2025

We are thrilled to hear from Stave House teacher Dunja in Sarajevo
where the children have recently taken their Stave House awards
she writes
Dear Ruth, the certificates arrived and children are over the moon!
Thank you and warm regards!

Dunja Gelineo Kajević
Music Teacher

Congratulations to Claire Weston-Shaw our Stave house teacher in Wimbledon who has just completed her level 3 training ....
25/02/2025

Congratulations to Claire Weston-Shaw our Stave house teacher in Wimbledon who has just completed her level 3 training . Claire is finding Stave House is working excellently with her SEN students and is looking to complete her training including the Diploma so that she can train the rest of her staff at Melody Makers .

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Stave House

Let me tell you a musical story, Here is a House with four rooms… “ and so, begins the wonderful imaginary journey into the world of Stave House where your children will be equipped with classical music skills for life, able to read write and play music. Stave House lays a musical foundation that is taught via a ‘see, hear, do ‘interactive approach to learning. The method encourages storytelling, role play, singing games and rhymes teaching creativity, inspiring curiosity and offering the child the freedom to explore academic musical concepts. Stave House is compatible with all other Montessori learning. The idea for the method was conceived in a Montessori school 25 years ago, by Fellow of the London College of Music, Ruth Travers (ALCM LNCM FLCM Director Stave House) who felt that if approached in a way that engaged them, very young children could learn to read music without gimmicks, finger numbers or letters being written above the music, thus helping them to become independent musicians. Ruth believes that strong music literacy in early childhood is beneficial to music development in the later years. With this in mind she created Stave House, a programme that makes learning music for the young easy and fun. The Stave House method teaches children to read, play and write music. It uses a series of creative characters to engage children, through storytelling and nursey rhymes.

The characters used represent the musical notes – like Ferdie the fox for F and father Crotchet for a single beat. The characters when combined make music. Children are also taught to arrange the notes in their own liking, and re-ordering them to hear the different aural effects. This gives them exposure to music composing. The Stave House method is designed for all musical instruments. It is accredited and certified by the London College of Music. This not only affirms the quality of the Stave House teaching, it also means that along the way children will have the opportunity to mark progress and obtain recognition through structured assessments & certification. The latter is found to be essential for growth. The foundation built by the Stave House method lasts a lifetime.

Ruth has been teaching and composing music for over thirty years. She is English and lives in Essex, U.K. with her husband Russell. Ruth became a Fellow of the London College of Music in 2015.