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About Us


IMS - About Us

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About Us


IMS - About Us

Independent Music Solutions (IMS), founded in September 2011, is an independent, educational partnership of private music teachers offering a range of services to schools in the UK.

We believe that all children should be given the opportunity to receive an excellent school-based music education at an affordable price. Learning an instrument gives children a skill for life, develops confidence and self-esteem and enhances cognitive development.

Our qualified, full insured, DBS checked staff offer individual and shared lessons on a wide range of musical instruments. 

IMS offers a range of contracts to schools from a minimum of one teacher for one hour a week, through to whole school music provision across the spectrum of services.

We can operate from between 30 - 39 weeks a year to best suit your school timetable and curriculum. We believe that flexibility is the key - our contracts can be amended on a term by term basis.

Our services do not vary across geographical boundaries. We offer the same opportunities to all pupils at all schools.

James Suckling BA (Hons) QTS

Senior Managing Partner

IMS gives our school wonderful opportunities to learn, perform and most importantly, love music. Our lessons, assemblies and concerts are a thing to behold thanks to the hard work of James and his company.
— Mr N Bates, Headteacher, Burbage Junior School, Hinckley, Leicestershire.
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Our Team


IMS Partners

Our Team


IMS Partners

Senior Partners

 

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James Suckling BA (Hons) QTS, Senior Managing Partner

Heart of England

(Birmingham , Solihull, Coventry, Reddich, Leicester, Northampton, Banbury, Aylesbury and Oxford and surrounding areas)

James studied Music and Drama at Warwick University and subsequently taught for nine years at schools in Coventry and Warwickshire. In 1999 James launched the Stagecoach Theatre Arts Schools in Edgbaston and Bromsgrove and currently these centers provide dance, drama and singing lessons for 200 students each week. As a Musical Director James has conducted many musicals across the Midlands. James set up IMS in 2011 and is thrilled to see the partnership develop and grow each year.

admin@independentmusicsolutions.co.uk 

Phone: 07776 228179


Simon Belcher, Regional Managing Partner

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

(Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton and surrounding areas)

 

Simon has been playing drums since the age of 10 and now enjoys a career as both a teacher and performer. He has played in brass bands, orchestras, dance bands and function bands but now spends most of his time playing drums and percussion for many different shows, musicals and pantomimes in shows all over the country.

sbelcher@independentmusicsolutions.co.uk

Phone: 07802 420816


IMS boasts really reliable teachers who have filled the children with enthusiasm for music, and who have been a huge support to the Music Department as a whole.
— Miss L Craner, Music Teacher, Ipsley CE Academy, Redditch, Worcestershire.
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Where We Work


Where We Work


Independent Music Solutions is currently delivering music services in the following schools:-


 

Barton Seagrave Primary School, Kettering, Northamptonshire

Binley Woods Primary School, Binley Woods, Coventry

Blakedown C of E Primary School, Blakedown, Kidderminster, Worcestershire

Boddington C of E Primary Academy, Boddington, Northamptonshire

Budbrooke Primary School, Budbrooke, Warwick

Burbage Junior School, Burbage, Leicestershire

Clent Parochial Primary School, Clent, Worcestershire

Clapham Terrace Primary School, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Coughton CE Primary School, Alcester, Warwickshire

Coundon Primary School, Coventry, Warwickshire

Cubbington C of E Primary School, Cubbington, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Culworth Primary Academy, Culworth, Northamptonshire

Dordon Primary School, Dordon, Warwickshire

Dunchurch Boughton C of E Junior School, Rugby, Warwickshire

Fairhaven Primary School, Stourbridge, West Midlands

Henley-in-Arden Primary School, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire

Knightlow C of E Primary School, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Rugby, Warwickshire

Long Itchington C of E Primary School, Southam, Warwickshire

Middleton Cheney Academy, Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire

Moor Hall Primary School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

Radford Semele C of E Primary School

Rushden Academy, Rushden, Northamptonshire

Southam St. James C of E Academy, Southam, Warwickshire

St. Andrews Benn C of E Primary School, Rugby, Warwickshire

St. Nicholas C of E Primary School, Alcester, Warwickshire

St. Nicholas C of E Primary School, Kenilworth, Warwickshire

Tenacres First School, Redditch, Worcestershire

Thomas Jolyffe Primary School, Stratford-upon-Avon

Water Orton Primary School, Water Orton, Birmingham

Wolston St. Margaret's C of E Primary School, Wolston, Coventry

Wollaston Community Primary School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Wootton Wawen C of E Primary School, Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire

IMS has been incredibly supportive in helping to set up peripatetic teaching in our school. They have provided a wide range of instrument choices and enthusiastic and engaging teaching staff.
— Miss R Longfils, Music Co-ordinator, Tenacres First School, Redditch, Worcestershire.