West Midlands
Music lessons across West Midlands
One service, one agreement, run inside the school day.
Explore school music partnerships in West Midlands. The 9 town and city pages below include local school registers. Tell us about your school to discuss instruments, school-day lessons and funding options.
A partnership planned with your school.
- Government-backed provisionDelivered with music education hubs across England
- Music Hub partnerLocal music education hubs
- Prices chosen by each schoolEach school sets its family lesson price
Teachers, instruments and cover
We organise teaching, instruments and absence cover as part of the school partnership. Availability and arrangements are agreed with your school.
Inside the school day
Term-time lessons in an agreed room and timetable slot: one-to-one, small groups or bands of up to five. Rotating times help spread missed class time.
Safeguarding and records held by us
Checks, registers, practice notes and evidence, kept by us and available to your team whenever you ask.
Clear payment arrangements
Each place is either fully funded by the school or paid for by the family. A school may offer both types of place to different children, according to its funding and agreed provision.
- Towns and cities
- 9
- Primary schools here
- 677
- Children in a lesson
- 1-5
COUNTY BY TOWN
Towns and cities in West Midlands
- Birmingham301 primary schools
- Coventry96 primary schools
- Wolverhampton82 primary schools
- Solihull43 primary schools
- Walsall69 primary schools
- Dudley23 primary schools
- West Bromwich17 primary schools
- Sutton Coldfield30 primary schools
- Halesowen16 primary schools
Counts are from the Department for Education’s Get Information about Schools register, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
LOCAL SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
Planning provision across the county
Start with a town page to find the local school register. Schools across West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, can enquire about provision. We discuss the room, timetable, instruments and teaching availability before agreeing a partnership.
WHAT EACH SIDE DOES
What we bring, and what schools in West Midlands provide
If your school needs more lesson time, we can discuss the options. The current agreement remains in place until a new arrangement is agreed.
Ours to provide
- The instruments
- We provide the instruments for lessons at no cost to the school. Children can try the drums without owning a kit at home.
- Checks and training
- Teachers complete safeguarding training and enhanced DBS, identity and reference checks before joining the teaching team. We keep the records available for schools to review.
- A page for your school
- We give parents a school-specific page with details of the lessons on offer and an application form.
- The running of it
- Day-to-day lesson administration is managed by our team. Your school has a named contact for questions or issues that need attention.
Yours to provide
- A room and a slot
- Provide a suitable room and agree a rotating lesson time with us to help children avoid repeatedly missing the same subject.
- One person to ask
- We ask for one main contact at school to coordinate access, confirm dates and let us know about changes.
For schools in West Midlands, including those near Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, teaching availability and scheduling are confirmed with our team.
WHO PAYS, AND WHEN
Who pays for a place
A place has one payer and never two. Which one applies at a school in West Midlands depends on that school and its funding, not on who asks first. Ask and we will tell you what is available at yours.
Prices chosen by the school
Each school chooses its lesson price. After teacher pay, programme operating costs and job-advertising costs, MML pays 50% of the remaining lesson income directly into the school’s account each month. See school prices and monthly payouts ↗.
Family lesson payments
Parents contract with My Music Lessons and pay us directly at the price their school chooses. See pricing and monthly payouts ↗.
IN MORE DETAIL
The service across West Midlands
Explore the lesson formats, practical arrangements and next steps for a school partnership in your area.
- The music service for West Midlands
Our service includes the teaching and the work around it: arranging teachers and instruments, keeping lesson records, managing billing and organising absence cover. A school in West Midlands can ask how each part would work before agreeing a partnership.
West Midlands is part of West Midlands. Include the school name and town in your enquiry so we can discuss its proposed provision.
- In-school music service in West Midlands
An in-school music service takes place on school premises, during the school day in term time. A school in West Midlands provides a suitable room and agrees lesson slots with us; children attend their music lesson and then return to class.
A school in West Midlands provides a room and a rotating lesson slot. The school chooses the lesson price families pay. After teacher pay, programme operating costs and job-advertising costs, MML pays 50% of remaining lesson income directly into the school’s account each month. See school prices and monthly payouts ↗.
- School music lessons in West Midlands
A school music programme can include individual teaching and opportunities to play with others. For schools in West Midlands, we discuss the group size, instrument and timetable together, with a maximum of five children in a lesson.
Schools in West Midlands can ask about Piano, Guitar, Drums, Singing and Ukulele. The instruments and lesson format are confirmed with each school as part of its agreement.
- A music partner for West Midlands schools
A school partnership sets out what each team provides and how the service will run. Schools in West Midlands can discuss teaching, absence cover, instruments, records and billing with us, alongside the room and timetable the school supplies.
Schools in West Midlands can discuss one-to-one teaching, small groups and bands of up to five children. Lessons take place during the school day under the arrangements agreed with each school.
FREE SCHOOL MUSIC TOOLS
A practical plan for your music week.
Organise the timetable, find out who wants to play and prepare your school’s next steps.
ONE CONVERSATION
Tell us about a school in West Midlands
Name the school and we will find out what is possible there. That is the whole first step.
Start with your school
Tell us what you need.
Share the school name and the provision you have in mind. We will discuss existing lessons, room and timetable options, and how places could be funded. Availability is confirmed before a partnership is agreed.
What happens next
- Our team replies to the school email address you provide.
- We discuss a suitable room, lesson times and payment arrangements with your school.
- If the partnership is suitable, we agree the teaching plan and a start date together.