Hi,
Another student from Birmingham. I think the most important bit of advice is to be happy with the planes, school and instructor(s).
Next enjoy the flying lessons themselves rather than seeing them as part of a course that has to be done to get the PPL (after all they cost a lot per hour!)
Finally try and have regular lessons. Most people suggest aiming for at least one lesson a week. Early on if I had break of two weeks the next lesson was spent getting back to where I had been and three or four week gaps (mixture of work and weather) could mean two lessons to catch up.
I live in N Birmingham and there are also Tatenhill and East Midlands (where I had a trial lesson 10 years ago) as well as the airfields already mentioned. Amazingly because of the motorways from where I all the airfields around Birmingham are within about 10 mins driving time of each other and my choice (Wellesbourne) was based upon knowing one of the instructors.
Chris