Help children find their voice
Bring your musicianship into primary schools and help children discover what they can do. At Sing Education, you'll lead practical lessons with singing at their heart, supported by a shared curriculum and a team of music educators. Find a role where you can teach and keep developing.
Help children find their voice
Bring your musicianship into primary schools and help children discover what they can do. At Sing Education, you'll lead practical lessons with singing at their heart, supported by a shared curriculum and a team of music educators. Find a role where you can teach and keep developing.
Meet the people teaching with us
Meet some of our teachers and hear what the work is like, from leading music in school to learning alongside the Sing Education team.
Find your place in the team
Curricular music specialist
Lead class music from EYFS to Year 6, using our shared curriculum in partner primary schools. Your regular timetable may also include singing assemblies or clubs, depending on the post.
This role suits musicians who enjoy leading a whole room and developing children’s learning over time.
Instrumental or singing tutor
Work with pupils individually or in small groups, helping them develop their technique and make music with confidence. Lessons take place in school, with timetabling and parent billing handled by our team.
This role suits musicians who enjoy responding closely to individual pupils and their progress.
Cover teacher
Teach when a regular member of the team is absent, using the planned lessons and the school’s routines. You’ll need to settle into different classrooms and respond to the pupils in front of you.
This role suits adaptable teachers who enjoy variety; availability and hours depend on the cover needed.
Children learn music by making it
Our teaching is singing-led and Kodály-inspired. Children experience musical ideas through songs and practical activities before meeting the language or notation that explains them.
You’ll work from shared schemes of work, helping pupils build on what they have learned. Clear modelling gives them something to hear and try for themselves. You’ll check their understanding and adapt your teaching so everyone can take part.
We care about how the music sounds and what it feels like to make it together. Your teaching helps children develop the skills to experience that for themselves.
Teach for the ‘aha’ and the ‘wow’
Help a child grasp a musical idea, then give them the chance to use it. Our Music Teaching Competencies guide the teaching behind those moments, and how we help you develop. Here are two highlights.
“Creates moments of understanding (‘aha’ moments)”
A rhythm begins to make sense. A symbol connects with a sound. You’ll learn to recognise those moments of understanding and help children build on them.
“Creates musical ‘wow’ moments”
Separate parts come together and the class hears what it can do. Bring your musicianship to those shared experiences, helping pupils feel the joy of making music together.
Keep developing your teaching
Your induction introduces our curriculum and the teaching approaches you’ll use in school. You’ll have lesson plans and resources to help you prepare, with guidance on leading the class.
Training continues once you’re teaching. Observations and feedback give you time to reflect on your practice and work on what comes next. You can also draw on the online training platform and the experience of colleagues.
Your teaching and training manager is part of that support, helping you work through questions and develop in your role.
A teaching role within your music career
You’ll get to know the children you teach and hear their music develop over time. The moments they remember might be a melody they can now play, or the first time they hold their part alongside others.
“Remembering the notes and playing them in harmony with others”
A pupil describing what they felt good at in music, quoted in the Richard Shephard Music Foundation’s 2025–26 impact report. Sing Education delivers the programme’s weekly school music lessons.
Bring your musicianship to that work, with a curriculum to teach from and colleagues to help you keep developing.
Roles with a regular timetable offer the structure of contracted employment, which can sit alongside your wider work in music. You’ll also be part of a team that shares resources and ideas.
Check each vacancy for the hours and locations, and find the role that fits you.
Hear it from our teachers
One of my favourite things to happen when I’m walking around school is you might just hear someone humming one of the songs down the corridor or singing in the playground.
Jocelyn Orrell
Specialist music teacher
Genuinely I’ve really enjoyed it! It’s so much faster to prepare lessons thanks to all the links for songs/demos being right there within the lesson plan.
Megan G
Specialist music teacher
Everything is in one place and well organised. Particularly, I appreciate the little FOCUS note above the lesson slides and how you can mark the lesson as delivered so that it opens the following one the next time.
Davide V
Specialist music teacher
What schools say about our teachers
Our current Music teacher, is just amazing. She has a fantastic knowledge of the curriculum, builds rapport quickly with cohorts of pupils, is loved by the rest of the staff and she even runs a choir club for us at lunchtime.
Kerry Shilling - Head, Selborne Primary School
“The Sing Education teachers are very open and welcoming, integrating themselves into the school and quickly becoming a part of the team. I would recommend them to anyone.”
Pete Weal – Head, Alderbrook Primary School
Reading for music teachers
Striking a Chord: How to Make Wider Music Provision Work for Your School
Empowering Educators, Inspiring Students: A Decade of Change in Music Education
The New Government’s Commitments to Arts Education: What It Means for Schools
The Secrets to Successful Music Education – 10 Years of Sing Education
Music Education Spotlight: Victoria Road Primary School
It Takes A Village – Building Great Primary School Music
Ready to teach with us?
Explore our current vacancies to see where your musicianship could take you. Each listing explains the role and how to apply.