How much do you pay for in-school instrument lessons please?

[thesecretmusicteacher]

in our area it's

£54/term for 20 minute group lessons
£154/term for 20 minute individual lessons
free place if on Free School Meals
£54/term for individual lesson for children with certain special needs.

I'd be really grateful if people could say what their school/LEA/music hub charges and ideally what area they are in. Thanks!

£14 per half hour private lesson

Some instruments there is the option to share a lesson but not piano which dd does.

Have i not answered this? I'm surprised!

£54 or so a term for secondary age clarinet lessons ( 20mins indvidual) school employers teachers directly not through the music service.

It's a good deal but the school subsidises this.

DH used to be head of music in a primary and he charged as little as he could to balance his budget. The old head subsidised things and the new didn't , It was a mathematical headache!

thanks Theas!

£14for half an hour individual lesson for guitar.

£20 for 30 mins. Central London. 1-2-1 lesson.

At our school 10 half hour lessons per term cost £230 (£690 per year)

Privately I pay £30 and £35 per hour for my DDs violin and piano lessons. One lesson a week.

Can't believe how little some people are paying for their DCs music tuition!!!

Forgot to mention. Live in SW London.

£135 for 10 individual 30 min lessons scotland

£150 per term for 10 x 30 min individual - secondary. Recently increased from £120. 15 and 20 min also available at pro-rata cost.

Also pay privately £170 per term for 10 x 30 min piano.
And £180 for 10 x 30 min singing for DD2, but theory also available in price.

£75 per term irrespective of group size (could be 2 or 3 in the group but could equally be individual) but reduces if regularly attends a school ensemble. The child could be learning to play the violin but attend the school choir and would still receive discounted lessons. Teachers are provided by the county music service. They guarantee at least ten lessons per term but there might be more.

Private singing lessons are £40 per hour locally.

Dc has a 20 minute violin lesson with another child at school. We had to pay £150 up front in September for lessons. £30 for violin hire for a year through the county music service.

£180 per year which for schools in our area is apparently expensive but the school can't afford to subsidise any more - the wide choice of instruments means that some lessons are costing more than the children pay but orchestra is important to the school (a juniors). They are guaranteed 30 lessons a year.

Local secondary is also £180.

Gosh, I never knew DS's school music (piano + one more instrument) lessons were cheap, I am pleased now!

Inde prep school in Essex, £60 a term for 10 x 15 minute lessons

The school really encourages (pretty sucessfully) all of the children to play one or more instruments and is very proud of its orchestra so I guess this is reflected in the prices. If the prices unthread were charged we may have given up the piano when DS was unethusiastic after the first couple of terms, also would have been very unlikely to take up the 2nd instrument.

£60 a term for an individual lesson (15 min lesson)
£20 a term for children on FSM.
£15 a term for a large group lesson- 1 hour (10- in the group but by ability.)

£10 per half hour individual lesson at one school
£12 for 20 mins at the other. Ouch.

My Y6 DD has guitar at £50 per term for 10 half-hour lessons (joint with others but not sure of numbers, I think it's 2 or 3 at a time). Clarinet £80 per term for half-hour lessons and I think she is on her own. Next year when she is at grammar secondary, clarinet is going up to £140 per term (half hour on her own), they don't offer guitar. Neither lesson includes an instrument, she has her own but we could hire from county at £75 per term. Sorry I can't be more precise, she's away on a trip. South West.

I am feeling very lucky.

In school 1 to 1 half hour lesson (piano) free

Out of school hour long keyboard group lesson £9

I'd love my daughters to have the chance to learn to play an instrument but no idea how we'd afford this. What age do they tend to start and is it recommended to do piano first?

£18 half an hour piano lesson outside school (London)

Brillig the cheapest we've come across was part of an initiative to get more players of 'rare breed' instruments, so DS started on euphonium at a splendid £19 per term for lessons, with the instrument lent to him for free though it did look like a rusty radiator--.

Local brass bands, if you have any, might be keen to grab a willing junior member.

Mind you, there's a few good reasons that the big, expensive, car-filling instruments are rare amongst small children!

Are there any weekend music clubs locally? There's a volunteer-run one nearish to us that gives a child a chance to learn any instrument (group sessions) for £25 a year plus 50p entry each time they turn up.

I forgot: most schools still do teach recorder (cost: about a fiver with lessons free) and quite a few do ukelele or group keyboard sessions , which is kinder on the ears.

how fab it would have been to have been offered subsidised music lessons, sadly at the 'comprehensive' that i sent my children to, only those recommended by their local primary schools were offered them.

DSs Secondary - £50 per term or £125 per year (depending on how you pay) for 1/2 hour individual lessons unless you're taking Music GCSE in which case the lessons are free (DS1 gets free guitar lessons, I pay for DS2's piano ones) Lessons are heavily subsidised by the school and they have a large uptake and waiting lists - DS2 had to wait until Spring Term in Yr8 to get his lessons. GCSE and A'Level students and pupils who had lessons prior to Yr7 have priority.

DD's Primary school however doesn't subsidise so charge £10-15 per lesson iirc depending on instrument. She's waiting until Secondary School to learn piano because it's the only way I can afford it.

Just checked - we pay approx. £ 185 per school year based on 28 sessions (group) per year. Paid in 4 instalments. Instrument supplied FOC. dd is in a group of 2 cellos - but sometimes is taught individually - but length of lesson seems pretty short - less than 15 mins. Accodring to dd gteh teacher generally just reviews what she has practised at home and then sets new work for following week - there's not much actual teaching. (but dd practises - I think the teaching is saved for those kids that don't ..)

GCSE and A'Level music students that should be.