We continue to accept applications for Instrumental Lessons. If your child is interested to learn a musical instrument please click here for more information.

Why Learn an Instrument?

Learning to play a musical instrument has so many benefits – whether it’s building your confidence, enhancing your memory or widening your social circle. 

Here are the 10 reasons you should consider taking up an instrument this year.

1. Playing an instrument makes you smarter

Learning to play an instrument stimulates the brain, improving functions like memory and abstract reasoning skills, which are essential for maths and science.

2. Your social life will improve

Joining a musical group at any age encourages you to develop relationships with new kinds of people. It also builds skills in leadership and team-building, as well as showing you the rewards of working with others.

3. Playing an instrument relieves stress

Music keeps you calm. It has a unique effect on our emotions.

4. Playing an instrument gives you a sense of achievement

Playing and succeeding at a musical instrument gives you a huge sense of pride and achievement, especially when you manage to perfect a passage you’ve been struggling with for weeks.

5. It builds your confidence

As children begin to master their instrument, they will probably end up playing to a few audiences, starting with their music teacher or parents, and branching out to groups of other pupils and concert audiences. Playing in public can help children feel confident in presenting their work in a non-academic context.

6. Practising a musical instrument improves patience

Indeed, those first few months will forever be a badge of honour, saying you stuck it out and earned your stripes. There are no shortcuts to learning an instrument.”

7. It helps improve your memory

Researchers have found that learning to play a musical instrument can enhance verbal memory, spatial reasoning and literacy skills. Playing an instrument makes you use both sides of your brain, which strengthens memory power.

8. It increases discipline and time management skills

Learning music takes time and effort, and helps children understand that if they want to be good at something, they’ll need to put in the hours and organise their time effectively.

9. Playing music makes you more creative 

Practising and perfecting a piece of music does wonders for the creative side of your brain. No matter how much a composer annotates their composition, they cannot fully express how a piece of music should be played. So it is up to the player to put their own stamp on a piece, to inject some of their personality into the music. 

10. Playing music is fun!

While other hobbies like watching TV or flicking through social media are passive, playing music actively engages and stimulates the brain, making you feel happy and occupied.

CCAs start Monday, 9th September.

You will have received an email last week to notify you of the activities that your child was initially allocated.

You can view their CCA activities through SchoolsBuddy by logging in with the details that were sent out to you.

Please note, if you wish to withdraw from a CCA, you must contact EOTC@nexus.edu.sg by 6pm on Friday, 20th September.  

For paid CCAs, please note that the fees due will be added to your SchoolsBuddy account on Monday 23rd September. Please make payment using the link on SchoolsBuddy.

If a learner does not attend an activity, you will receive a notification of absence through the app. 

If you would like to arrange a later school bus after your child's activity (for an additional charge), please use the below link to contact Tong Tar, our school transport providers.