Staff Support & CPD

We offer a range of support to music leads and teachers, enhancing the provision in schools and creating opportunities for Continuing Professional Development

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Support and Development for Teachers

Teach Meets

Our series of FREE Teach Meets, in March 2025, aim to support and celebrate you in your role as a music teacher or music lead in primary and secondary education.

Leading the Teach Meet sessions will be Phil Griffiths, a lecturer for both Primary and Secondary PGCE Music courses at Bath Spa University. His main musical interests lie in composition and arranging. Having written and arranged for bands, choirs and soloists for many years, he is keen to find ways of supporting students interested in composition. Click the button below to find out more and book a place

Primary School Network

Our termly peer-to-peer network meetings for all Primary phase music leaders offer a range of CPD presentations to keep music leaders’ knowledge up to date.

Previous sessions have included: Preparing for Deep Dives, delivering the National Curriculum for Music, the Model Music Curriculum, Charanga Musical School, IT – Free Resources for the Primary Curriculum. 

We share ideas and initiatives between teachers in a supporting and collaborative peer-to-peer network. Meetings take place once per term, either face to face or virtually. 

Cost: FREE

Secondary School Network

Our termly peer-to-peer network meetings for all Secondary phase music leaders offer a range of CPD presentations to enhance music leaders’ knowledge and skills. We also share ideas and initiatives between teachers in a supporting and collaborative peer-to-peer network. Meetings take place once per term, either face to face or virtually. 

Cost: FREE

Music curriculum and co-curricular advice and support 

  • Support for schools to develop music teaching and learning in class and co-curricular activities.
  • Helping schools with the DfE’s expectation that all schools have a Development Plan 
  • Enabling schools to self-evaluate the quality and breadth of their work 

Each school is entitled to a FREE one hour visit which will identify the current strengths and opportunities to develop provision. This may include discussion around: 

  • Whole school music curriculum planning, developing a scheme of work
  • Developing extra-curricular music, policy writing, resources audit
  • Monitoring and improvement; sharing of lessons to evaluate quality of curriculum delivery of Ofsted recommendations for music, music lesson observation and feedback
  • Singing Strategy consultation
  • Working effectively with visiting Music Teachers.
  • Helping senior leadership and Governors to recognise good teaching practices in music
  • Staff meetings to upskill all staff on elements of Music Teaching 
  • Schools can build an improvement programme using a package of advice and support from us.

Wellbeing Curriculum Support 

£89.90 per hour 

Members of our music therapy and wellbeing team can support you to develop your whole-school wellbeing curriculum through music. See also our Here I Am programme, via our Creative Health services.  

NQT Music Support 

£89.90 per hour 

For EYFS, KS1 & KS2. A member of the Music Hub team will visit your school and support your NQT teachers with their music delivery, ensuring they are confident to deliver the National Curriculum requirements. 

Whole Staff (School or MAT) Music CPD £89.90 per hour 

Bespoke Music CPD twilight in your school or MAT, developing musical skills and aspects of music teaching as requested by you. 

Ensembles and Choirs in School

From £44.95 per hour 

One of the aspirations of the National Plan for Music Education is that every school should aspire to having a choir, an orchestra or large scale ensemble. In support of this we offer: 

  • Provision of ensembles for groups of students who come together regularly to create music
  • Ensembles support instrumental tuition and provide other ways for students to make music 
  • Ensembles can take place during the school day or after school
  • Ensembles from small groups to larger orchestras, choirs and bands of all styles of music 
  • Ensembles can vary in duration from 30 minutes to 1 hour. 

What do we provide? 

  • A Music Teacher who will lead the group once a week or as agreed by the school
  • Access to our extensive music library
  • Planning and delivery in collaboration with the school
  • Advice and information to meet the school’s needs 

We can also assist by offering musical expertise in preparation for concerts, musical theatre, judging and adjudicating music competitions and events. 

Want to know more?

Please contact us using the button below and a member of our team will get back in contact.

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Upcoming Events

Search for events, concerts and cultural events from WEMA and beyond.

Voices Together

STARTS: 03-03-25 - 10:00am
ENDS: 03-03-25 - 2:30pm
VENUE: St Michael’s Centre, Bristol

Big Sing – Bristol

STARTS: 21-03-25 - 10:00am
ENDS: 21-03-25 - 2:30pm
VENUE: St Michael’s Centre, Bristol

Big Sing – Bath

STARTS: 20-03-25 - 10:00am
ENDS: 20-03-25 - 2:30pm
VENUE: Pavilion, Bath