Sing Up

Sing Up is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme for primary school-aged children in England. The £10 million government investment aims to ensure that good quality singing is central to young children’s lives, in primary school, in the home and in the wider community.

The programme is being produced by a consortium led by Youth Music with Abbott Mead Vickers, Faber Music and The Sage Gateshead.

Over the next 6 months Sing Up will be working in partnership with ContinYou to link singing projects into the Extended Schools agenda, ensuring all projects are maximising staff support, resources and funding available to ensure that projects are outcome focussed, making a difference and sustainable.

With funding from Sing Up, ContinYou is working directly with Clusters of schools developing innovative, singing based Extended Schools provision and working to capture examples of good practice up and down the country.

Singing and the extended schools core offer

Singing can be a wonderful way of developing the extended schools core offer.

The core offer will require all schools to offer access to affordable Childcare, Study Support, Access to Specialised Services, Parental Support and Community Use of the school’s facilities by 2010.

Song can be used as a vibrant and positive start to the day through singing based breakfast clubs. After-school singing clubs and choirs can boost pupils morale and help improve learning in all subjects.

Singing is a valuable tool used to help children with speech and language difficulties improve their communication skills.

Song has the power to bring communities together and to engage with parents. It can also help us to identify with our own culture and to explore the culture and identity of others.

In every area of the extended schools core offer, singing can be used as a way to engage the disengaged, reach out to those families who can be hard to reach and help to narrow the gap in pupil’s achievement.

If you would like to know more about Sing Up and Extended Schools please contact Matthew Freeman on the details listed below.

Matthew Freeman
National Development Manager
ContinYou
Tel. 07854955494
e-mail matthew.freeman@continyou.org.uk

Free magazine

Please register to receive the new FREE Sing Up Magazine for all primary schools and singing leaders working regularly in primary schools!

Schools are invited to register to receive the Sing Up Magazine, once a term, free of charge. The first issue will be available from 5th November.

To register to receive the Sing Up magazine please visit www.singup.org/registration

Any further enquiries please email info@singup.org

Free resources and articles

Sing Up Cumbria (Word file, 52 KB)