Music benefits a child’s language, memory, emotional & social skills, it improves moral, mental health and learning skills. The National Curriculum requires pupils to be taught to sing, compose from aural memory, perform, listen attentively, recall sounds, compose, experience music traditions and great composers, and learn about the history of music. Ofsted confirms this opportunity is missing or poor in many state primary schools.

Through workshops delivered by a skilled and experienced music practitioner, who will work with the children weekly, using the children’s own creative writing to inspire them in writing song lyrics collaboratively. They develop their tunes and melodies through listening to music and working with their own ideas creatively. Over the 6-8 weeks they will compose their own school’s songs to sing, and learn further songs which they perform altogether as a combined choir in Tewkesbury Abbey in March.