free or help with music lessons?

March2012

ihave very little money at moment and wonder how i can get my daughter to get music lessons at schools. any ideas. she is also good at it but really would like her to have some lessons too. i feel so sad when i cannot offer it to her. i dont have a credit card and my credit rating still probably shot still) . i heard on the radio a month ago approx that some money was being available for kids to learn music at schools for free but when i called the school up they knew nothing about it. any help appreciated. thanks!

heartbreak_star

What kind of music lessons? Presumably it's being taught as part of the curriculum. How old is your daughter?

Most importantly, what does she want to do?

HBS x

March2012

too thanks in advance for any help

heartbreak_star wrote: »

What kind of music lessons? Presumably it's being taught as part of the curriculum. How old is your daughter?

Most importantly, what does she want to do?

HBS x

Bogalot

There are lots of tutorials on YouTube. Get her a keyboard and she can teach herself.

March2012

supportive environmetn better?

Bogalot wrote: »

There are lots of tutorials on YouTube. Get her a keyboard and she can teach herself.

LilElvis

Do you qualify for the Pupil Premium? My daughter's school allows you to use some of this money towards extra curricular activities such as music lessons and sports clubs.

MallyGirl

take a look and see if there are any charities supporting music education. In my county - Berkshire - there is a very active organisation called Maestros which does have help towards lessons for low incomes.

sulphate

Contact your daughter's school and ask how music lessons are organised - some schools have private tutors come in and others use the local county music service. The county music service may have a scheme where it subsidises families on low incomes. As already mentioned Pupil Premium may be an option.

My dh is a music tutor both privately and for a music service. He has previously given 10-20% discounts to families on low incomes. He's also had pupils in the past that are paid for by the school.

maman

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/music-education/music-education-hubs


The money you read about is to continue funding these music hubs. There may/may not be one operating in your area.


Most individual schools have very little money and time to devote to music teaching and so tend to spend it on class teaching of music rather than individual tuition as it helps all children and makes the money go further.


The Pupil Premium idea is a good one. If you're very short of money then maybe your daughter has this and schools can spend it on enrichment activities for her.


When you say she's 'good at it' do you mean she can already play those instruments a bit?

theoretica

You still haven't said how old she is?

Have a look around for choirs. A good choir can provide an excellent musical training, though there aren't as many as there used to be.

clairec79

I know my daughter's school provided harp lessons for free at one point - I think it was last two years of junior school they offered it, she did it one year at comp too (may have had to have paid then) I know she dropped it after that