Mini performances take place every two weeks in various locations around the school including the canteen and courtyard. This means many students who may be reluctant to perform often end up giving it a go.“I see it all the time from kids who– when they come in junior school – they are so scared, but by the time they’re in senior school, they just want to perform. They’re coming up and they’re asking when the next gigs are.” As well as this, Maxwell is conscious of downplaying the perceived importance of performing to students, to breakdown the commonly held belief where performers must be perfect every time. “It’s not just these elite kids that are up the front, smashing it every time, but we’ve got kids up there publicly having a go … that’s what we’ve been able to create here with just the amount of performances we do,” he says. “It’s very rare to find a kid that hasn’t connected with music on some level … it’s a matter of finding what it is within music that they can connect to.”