Music Matters at Cobholm Primary Academy

The Inspiration Trust strongly believes in the power of music to enhance lives, both through the sheer pleasure of listening to and enjoying music, and through the discipline of individual and group playing and singing. As part of our extended Arts and Culture Programme, pupils have the opportunity to take part in a variety of plays, concerts and music competitions.

As part of our commitment to music education, we also offer our students a range of peripatetic lessons with our highlyskilled and experienced team of Visiting

Music Teachers - these include piano, singing and recorder lessons. Learning to play an instrument helps students to develop cognitive and social skills, expand language and motor skills, as well as help build determination and patience. Plus, it is fun!

Our pupils are encouraged to participate in numerous Trust-wide music competitions and Inspiration Trust has made a pledge to have a full orchestra or musical ensemble in every one of its schools by 2027.

Every year our students get to take part in our Trust-wide Carol Service.

An annual tradition, the Carol Service sees pupils from all across our sister schools - primaries, secondaries and sixth forms - join forces to perform a series of traditional carols and hymns in the Winter Term.

Always a big calendar event, the Carol Service is a fantastic opportunity for our students and staff to showcase their brilliant musical capabilities, whether through playing instruments or singing, while getting to perform in an iconic location.

The Carol Service is a fun Christmas event that always makes for a lovely family evening.

Cobholm Passport

Here at Cobholm Primary Academy we strongly believe in the value of experiences, which is why we set up our ‘Cobholm Passport’. This ‘passport’ gives each of our pupils access to a range of trips, events, curriculum days and visitors, all carefully planned to help them understand and enjoy the wider world around them.

Our pupils are encouraged to record these experiences in their passport and they will keep this as a record of achievement that spans their school life, providing a collection of memories they can treasure forever.

Throughout the school year pupils will also take part in a number of curriculum-based awareness days such as World Book Day, Children’s Mental Health Day, European Languages Week, and Remembrance Day (to name a few), enabling them to explore key events and expand their cultural capital.

Extra-Curricular Activities

As ever, we aim to provide as many opportunities as possible for our pupils. We do this both within school and within our Extended Day Enrichment - an offer which takes place weekly for all our Key Stage 2 pupils and covers activities such as:

- Choir

- Music Lessons

- DT Club

- Cookery

- Computing.

Breakfast Club

We also offer a range of after-school sports clubs which include:

- Netball

- Football

- Dodgeball

- Rugby

- Multisports.

As an academy, we are proud to be able to offer a free breakfast club every day of the week. The club is supported by the Greggs Foundation and we thank them for enabling us to offer a healthy and nutritious start to the day for all our pupils.