On Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th June, members of the St Mary’s Choir delivered a series of inspiring singing workshops across four local primary schools. Having been trained by members of the internationally renowned ensemble VOCES8, our students developed skills in leading vocal warm-ups, teaching new repertoire, and engaging younger learners with enthusiasm and confidence.

They put this training into practice at Bosbury Primary School, Kingsland Primary School, Stoke Prior Primary School and St Paul’s Primary School, working with whole classes of Year 4 and Year 5 pupils.

Our students were outstanding throughout the programme. They led each session with confidence, humour and impressive musicality, proving themselves to be excellent ambassadors for the school. Importantly, they reflected on feedback from the VOCES8 team and refined their delivery with each workshop, demonstrating real growth as young leaders.

The impact on the primary pupils was clear to see, with many thoroughly enjoying the sessions and even asking how they might become Young Leaders themselves in the future.

This cohort represents the second group of St Mary's students to undertake the Young Leaders Bronze Award. Earlier this year, a group of 12 students achieved their Silver Award by successfully organising and leading a large-scale event for 150 primary pupils in our school hall. Our new Bronze award students are already showing great promise as they follow in their footsteps.