The Wolverhampton Music HUB has commissioned ‘The Rock Music Limited’ to deliver song writing workshops in three secondary schools based around the subject, ‘social awareness’.

We are delighted to say that St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, along with Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Sports College and Highfields School was one of the chosen schools.

The mentors have been busy working with the Year 10 GCSE group and are now already into their second week of song writing.

The workshop will last six weeks and involve the talented musicians coming in to school and working with our students, helping them to write and perform their own songs; this ranges from students playing instruments to those singing.

Mrs Catriona Roberts, Head of Music remarks: “This is a fantastic way to learn how to create music for our students. We are very grateful to the four tutors for sharing their expertise in song writing and teaching our young musicians how to explore their potential creative writing skills.”

At the end of the six week programme, the students will have written and recorded their collective group songs and be well equipped to start their own individual song writing careers, as part of their GCSE assessment.