Exploring and expressing our emotions through music.
15/11/2025
If you follow me, you may have noticed that my page was unavailable for a few days and is now showing restrictions. I want to clarify what has been happening.
Recently, I had to make the difficult but necessary decision to report extremely serious safeguarding concerns regarding a family I work with.
No complaint has been made about me, nor am I under any investigation.
As a former foster carer, I take safeguarding incredibly seriously and will always report concerns, no matter how challenging it may feel. As always, children’s safety is at the centre of what I do.
Unfortunately, in response to this report, I have experienced backlash from the parent involved, who has used my page to retaliate via reviews and comments.
This situation has been distressing and affected my mental health, particularly as an autistic person; so, I have restricted comments for my own safety and wellbeing and ask for patience and understanding while I navigate this.
Although I cannot share any details of this situation, I want to reassure all Songbird parents that this situation relates to one specific case and does not affect any other child. If you would like a check-in for reassurance about your child’s support, you are welcome to contact me by email or arrange a phone call.
05/11/2025
Our piano based sessions involve lots of time away from the piano, developing understanding of how music works.
There's so much to think about... We don't try doing it all at once.
We're getting to the heart of music!
28/10/2025
We have a dark, dingy corridor outside our beautiful light room so we made a magical thing to brighten it up... A Songbird tree!
24/10/2025
thank you so much for this gorgeous tune... We love it!
22/10/2025
Our core values...
Exploration
Discovery
Creativity
Self-expression
20/10/2025
A lovely lovely thing happened... One of our fellow studio holders here at gave us this gorgeous picture. How perfect!
Thank you !
17/10/2025
‘By the time many young people reach secondary school they are in the process of ’shut down’. Patterns of dissociation, disaffectedness and apathy are often well-established and any flame of of longing and desire to learn has been extinguished.’
From ‘Embodied Education’ by Kay Louise Aldred and Dan Aldred
I see this sadly far too often in the kids I work with. They're either struggling on at school or not falling between all stalls and not managing school and having no alternative available to them. It's heart-breaking to see. Our school system is failing and seems to only be getting worse.
Learning is supposed to be joyful! It's part of what makes us human. We are made curious!
I'd so love to see a system that supports everyone... not easy to achieve but I also don't believe impossible. A system with way more choice and flexibility. Where the individual is seen and respected. Where they are safe and nurtured. Where the interests are taken into account.
Home education can be an amazing thing but it's not possible for everyone.
I'm so excited by the work of Kay and Dan Aldred and the challenges to the system they are instigating.
Thank you!!
17/10/2025
How does autumn feel to you?
For me there is some annual sadness of letting go of the long days, bigger energy... Before I hunker down for winter and sink in.
It seems quite a few of us feel this and we've been exploring those feelings in music this week.
13/10/2025
Do you have a teenager whose brain needs a break?
Our music sessions are a safe space for your teen to switch off their busy brains and get creative.
Music has huge, scientifically-proven benefits to wellbeing and mental health, as well as boosting self-confidence, independence and a sense of agency.
I'm now offering Pay As You Go sessions all day on a Thursday... no commitment to weekly sessions, sign up for as many or as few sessions as you like.
We're based in this lovely studio space at , 10 minutes drive from Durham City.
Send me a message to book a chat if you'd like to know more 😀.
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Hi I’m Rosanna and I’m the proud owner of Flautino Music School. My musical training started with a wonderful piano teacher when I was 8 years old. I also have a dad who loves classical music and had a lovely record player that we would listen to on Sunday afternoons. For some reason he had a few records of recorder music and I just fell in love with the sound. It wasn’t what the recorder sounded like at school!! We found an out-of-school recorder teacher and my love affair with music began. I took grade 8 when I was 14 and went on to do my diploma, and then on to King’s College London and the Royal College and Academy of Music. Truth be told … I hated them all! They were so stuffy … I felt no joy in music when I was there. So I moved back up here … worked for the Sage Gateshead for a while, and then decided to set up my own music school … and Flautino Music School was born. I started out as a mobile music teacher, but after a few years of travelling around I felt the need to put down roots and started teaching from Lanchester Community, County Durham, and am so happy to be part of the community in Lanchester.
My approach to music now is born out of never wanting music to stuffy or snobbish. Music is for EVERYONE! Yep … sometimes you have to work hard but it should still be FUN. I use a wonderful method called Piano Safari for my piano teaching which gets students playing enjoyable music right from the start. Music theory is added in bite-sized chunks. I want kids to be able to read music but also to improvise and learn how to play by ear.
Recorder-wise … I don’t teach recorder to kids because … well, why would you?? It sounds awful when you start so I much prefer to teach piano as way of learning to read music and then kids/adults can migrate onto whatever other instrument they choose … great if that’s the recorder! So I have a few adult students and teach and Durham and Newcastle universities. The recorder is still the love of my life! If you head over to Flautino Events you can read about what’s going on in the performing side of my life.
My love of music therapy started when I was 17 and I spent my work experience week at Dilston College where they did music therapy. It was magic! Music was a language that anyone could speak, whether they were verbal or not. I have now taken various short courses in music therapy and absolutely love the sessions I run. My instrument collection is growing and it’s so wonderful to see kids who often struggle to engage just totally under the spell of music that they are creating.
So basically … I have the best job in the world! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Come and be part of our little community.
