At a time of difficulty, Verity Quarmby was heartened by the help she received from the Musicians' Union – so much so, that she is now an Education Rep in Yorkshire, supporting colleagues and liaising between them and management
Verity Quarmby teaching Year 1 pupils at Warley Road Primary Academy. VMTs may be required to teach one-to-one instrumental or singing lessons, lead choirs and ensembles, and take on classroom music teaching
Verity Quarmby teaching Year 1 pupils at Warley Road Primary Academy. VMTs may be required to teach one-to-one instrumental or singing lessons, lead choirs and ensembles, and take on classroom music teaching - Warley Road Primary Academy

I started my music teaching career in 2002 as a secondary school music teacher in Leeds. In the following years, I worked as a music educator in a variety of settings, until I hung up my secondary teaching hat in 2015. At the time, circumstances meant I had relied on union support; and on leaving the classroom that year, my experience had lit a spark for union involvement and I vowed to ‘pay forward’ the excellent union support I had experienced when I really needed it. Union membership had always been really important to me, seeing the work that reps had done in the schools I'd worked in, but I never thought I would become involved until I joined the MU.

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