The music service provides instrumental teaching and curriculum support for schools, performance activities for young musicians at area music centres and serves as a source of information and advice for schools and the wider community. Live music visits are offered to schools twice a year. A primary schools' carol service takes place at Clifton cathedral.
Instrumental teaching is available for junior and secondary age pupils. The music service has a widely experienced team of over 65 staff offering teaching across a broad range of instruments. Curriculum support is offered to all schools and is targeted according to their needs.
Area music centres operate on Saturday mornings at Kingswood, Thornbury and Yate. The centres provide opportunities for pupils to participate in a range of performance activities, for which a termly charge is made.
Other activities during the week include 3 training string groups, 2 flutissimo groups, senior strings, a jazz orchestra, a chamber orchestra, Reed Up! (a clarinet/saxophone ensemble) and flutelets (junior flute group) meeting each week during term time. A new wind orchestra successfully started at the beginning of this year.