Special Needs Update
If you work with children in need of special help then these two documents are for you!
Jan Faulkner’s “Come into my World” offers songs that work really well. (Click here to download)
Drake Music have worked closely with Sing Up and did an excellent workshop for Chorister Outreach delegates. Here is their take on accessible singing. (Click here to download)
CHOIR SCHOOLS OUT & ABOUT
Choir schools are heavily involved with promoting singing and instrumental playing in their locality. In the coming weeks we will be redoing this section so that we can share lots more activity by individual foundations as well as keeping you up informed about chorister outreach in primary schools.
CSA has worked closely with government for many years as part of the Music and Dance Scheme and more recently, the National Singing Programme. Enjoy reading about the journey in Reaching Out.
As you will see, the original chorister outreach model was pioneered in Truro in 2000. It was adopted by the government in 2008 as part of its Sing Up campaign to boost singing in primary schools. It has had a huge impact (click here to see how exciting and rewarding this work has been) on singing in local schools and in the last two years alone some 42 cathedral and choir school foundations have:
- Put on more than 9,100 workshops with primary schools
- Visited nearly 1,000 primary schools
- Involved just under 60,000 children
- Organised 700 public performances
- More than 3,083 teachers and other school staff have taken part and just under 1,600 teachers have been trained to lead singing
- 348 under 18s have become singing leaders and there have been 247 trainees involved
Lots of Research
The COP work has been closely monitored by the Institute of Education and you can read their latest research here. Like to know more about the Institute’s team, led by Professor Graham Welch, and their work? Click here.
Government funding for the Chorister Outreach Programme has now come to an end but many foundations are continuing to run workshops and concerts. Click here for a map of programmes which ran in 2009-2010.
We are compiling new data about the programmes – watch this space!
Government funding for the campaign was originally limited to four years and therefore came to an end in March 2011. The good news is that Sing Up is being funded for another year so the website and song bank are available. The latter has proved a huge success and CSA will also be adding more ideas for singing leaders soon.
Keep in touch with Sing Up news – visit www.singup.org.uk
Tips for choir trainers!
We were delighted to be involved with a new resource published by Faber Music. Follow this link http://www.singup.org/news-local-events/news-article/view/236-brand-new-and-exclusive-resource-packs-available-now/ and scroll down to the bottom, you will find Sing a new song
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