Why I Started We. Teach. Music.
Why I Started We. Teach. Music.
I didn’t start We. Teach. Music. because I thought music education needed another expert voice.
I started it because I kept seeing good teachers quietly doubting themselves.
Teachers who care deeply about their pupils.
Teachers who work hard.
Teachers who are doing their absolute best — and still feel uncomfortable when it’s time to teach music.
Especially in primary schools.
Music often gets squeezed into the edges of the week. It comes after maths, after literacy, after everything else. And for many teachers — particularly non-specialists — it comes with a quiet question:
“Am I doing this right?”
I’ve been there. I still am, some weeks.
Music Teaching Isn’t a Performance
Somewhere along the line, music teaching picked up a reputation for needing confidence, flair, and musical skill before you’re allowed to begin.
But that’s never been my experience of what actually works.
What works is:
simple ideas
clear routines
repetition
starting small
being calm when it goes wrong
What works is teaching — not performing.
And yet, so much music CPD still feels like it’s aimed at turning teachers into musicians, rather than helping them feel comfortable teaching music to a class of children.
Why “We”?
We. Teach. Music. is deliberately collective.
Because none of us have this fully figured out.
Because teaching music is a shared craft.
Because confidence grows when we realise we’re not the only ones finding it hard.
This platform isn’t about perfection.
It’s about practice.
It’s about noticing small classroom wins.
It’s about going back to basics when things unravel.
It’s about trying something new — and being honest when it doesn’t land.
What This Space Is For
We. Teach. Music. exists to support teachers — especially non-specialists — with:
practical ideas that work quickly
reassurance when lessons go wrong
simple approaches that reduce planning stress
confidence with singing, rhythm, and instruments
the reality of juggling teaching, life, and everything else
No gatekeeping.
No heavy theory.
No pretending it’s easy all the time.
Teaching Music, Together
If you’ve ever felt like music lessons should be more complicated than they need to be — you’re not alone.
If you’ve ever thought, “This feels messy, but the children are learning” — that matters.
And if you’re still figuring things out week by week — so am I.
We’re not doing this alone.
We. Teach. Music.
