Growing Musicians, Shaping Lives: 2025 survey

Music Teacher magazine is launching a campaign to champion the importance of music education. We will do this by sharing inspiring stories of how teachers are growing musicians and shaping lives, shining a spotlight on musical opportunities for children and young people, and seeking to influence policy makers and funders to increase support for music education.

To help support these objectives, we invite you to contribute to our research by answering the following questions. The survey should take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

1. Are you a specialist music teacher?

2. What type of teacher are you?

Classroom teacher
Instrumental/vocal teacher
SEND specialist
Workshop leader
Lecturer
Other - write in Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

3. If you are a music teacher, who is your employer?

4. What age bracket do you mostly teach?

5. What percentage of the children where you work are eligible for the Pupil Premium grant?

6. Approximately what percentage of pupils in your school participate in extra-curricular music?

7. Compared with five years ago, is this figure:

8. Approximately what percentage of pupils in your school have instrumental music lessons (in groups or 1:1)?

9. Compared with five years ago, is this figure:

10. What are the most common reasons for pupils not continuing with instrumental lessons?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

11. How many hours of class music do your pupils receive per month?

12. Approximately what percentage of pupils in your school go on to GCSE and/or A level Music?

12. Where do you look for support with your music teaching?

Music Teacher magazine
Music Teachers’ Association
Music Mark
Local music hubs
ISM
Charanga
Other commercial companies - write in Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

13. Do you support other teachers in your school with music provision - if so, how?

14. If asked by a non-specialist colleague for resources suggestions, what would they be?

15. In terms of subject profile, how important is music within your school/college on a scale of 1-10 (1 being not at all, 10 being extremely important)

16. What is the annual budget for music provision (staff and resources) in your school/institution?

17. How do you feel that music supports other school subjects (outside of performing arts)?

18. What would you say are the biggest pressures facing music teachers in schools/colleges?

19. Are there any areas of your job that you feel you need support in? These could be either specific to music teaching or teaching in general - for example building your teaching portfolio, tax affairs etc.?

20. As Music Teacher magazine seeks to increase recognition of the importance of music education, please provide any information of note that you would like us to be aware of:

21. This survey is anonymous but if you would like to talk to us about your experiences, please enter your email address here: This question requires a valid email address.

22. If you would like to sign up to receive the Music Teacher newsletter, please enter your email address here: This question requires a valid email address.

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