I absolutely love working with the children in the primary schools, getting to know them, their characteristics and encouraging their personalities to shine through music.

From a big family, I was surrounded by music and started to learn the piano from age nine, thanks to my lovely Mum and Dad, studying the ABRSM examinations and later going on to learn to play the flute, keyboard and ukulele as my main instruments.

I enjoyed teaching children and adults during my time running the Yamaha Music School in Warrington, entering students for Trinity examinations.

Approached by the Warrington Music Service, it was a pleasure to work with the team and develop my skills since 2007, delivering whole class music lessons to the primary schools in warrington.

I was delighted to be recognised and ultimately win the Classic FM Peripatetic National Music Teacher of the Year in 2011.   Off I went to The Royal Albert Hall with family, friends and colleagues to be awarded on stage in front of an audience of thousands at the Music For Youth Schools Prom Concert by Sarah Teather MP, Minister of State for Children and Families.

In 2017 I founded Medley Music For Schools Ltd and have immensely enjoyed working with Headteachers to support their children with the music national curriculum.

I have worked with Senior Leadership Teams in schools to map out endpoints and ensure that the national curriculum for music was not only covered but enhanced.  During a December 2023 Ofsted inspection, music was recognised as being a real strength.

I have been fortunate to work with local historian Chris Bent, initiating remembrance compositions with the children from schools, who have researched the history of the fallen and learning of the warrington bombing.  Each year Medley Music brings children together from schools to perform a Medley Music Melodies concert and our special guests Wendy and Colin Parry attend, whilst the children perform a remembrance song for Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball.

I have a great team supporting me and we continuously evolve the Medley Music provision, ensuring each lesson is delivered in a fun and engaging, as well as educational approach, to meet the national curriculum objectives. I particularly enjoy the children performing as a whole class and in school choirs throughout the year. 

Quality time with my husband, two lovely children and my close family and friends is particularly important to me. I may also have been known to get up and perform myself, in the odd karaoke or two!