The RSPBA Music Board met on 26th September 2023 and have approved the following recommendations from the RSPBA Standards & Grading Group, which have been ratified by the 2 Music Board allocated RSPBA Directors.
Band secretaries have been notified of these changes via email, and if required as per RSPBA Standing Orders and Rules 3.25. Bands will have the right to appeal their grading.
Changes
Novice Juvenile B to Novice Juvenile A
Renfrewshire Schools
Lochgelly High School
Oban High School
Erskine Stewart Melville
St Johns College – Zimbabwe – by request
Novice Juvenile A to Juvenile
St Columbas School – Kilmacolm
West Lothian School
Dollar Academy – 990
George Watsons College – 369
Scots College – Australia
Grade 4B to Grade 4A
The Scots School Albury – Australia
Royal Army of Oman – Oman
Venlo Caledonian – Netherlands
Upper Crossgare
Grade 4A to Grade 3B
Burntisland and District
Cloughfin
Syerla and District
Uddingston Strathclyde
Kilbarchan
Grade 4A to Grade 4B
Kilsyth Thistle
Penicuik and District
RAF Central Scotland
Lochryan
Cottown
Northern Constabulary Community
RAF Lossiemouth
Grade 3B to Grade 3A
Haileybury – Australia
Cullybackey
Ross and Cromarty Pipes and Drums
Macanta
Grade 3B to Grade 4A
Tweedvale
Mid Argyll
Grade 3A to Grade 2
Tullylagan
Robert Malcolm Memorial – Canada
Coalburn I.O.R.
Grade 3A to Grade 3B
Turriff and District
Wallacestone & District
Drumlough
Grade 2 to Grade 3A
City of Discovery – by request
Oban
St Marys – Derrytrasna
Band members who have entered the World Solo Snare and Tenor Drumming Contest in Glasgow on 21st October 2023 will be unaffected by these changes.
Paul McAndrew and Sharon Smith
RSPBA Directors to the Music Board
