Sing Up

Sing Up is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme for primary school-aged children in England. The £40 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.

ContinYou are working with Sing Up 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 focused, making a difference and sustainable.

They are also responsible for managing the Sing Up Clusters on behalf of Sing Up.

Sing Up Clusters are funded programmes that enable secondary schools to lead on exciting singing projects with their feeder primary schools.

The Sing Up Clusters enable us to meet our key targets of training young singing leaders, support transition from primary to secondary and engage with partners to ensure sustainable singing opportunities for all pupils.

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.

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

Access to free online songbank and magazine

Please visit the Sing Up website for more information and song ideas.

You can also register your details on the website to receive the free Sing Up Magazine and access the online songbank. This is a must for all singing leaders working regularly in primary schools! The songbank is full of wonderful songs, singing games and exercises all fully downloadable that you can use to create fun filled singing sessions in your schools or play settings.

Free resources and articles

Sing Up Cumbria (Word file, 52 KB)

Singing breakfast clubs

ContinYou and Sing up have joined forces to create a fantastic, practical resource to help you introduce singing into your breakfast club.

To navigate to the Singing breakfast clubs page, where you can download the resource and activity sheets, click on the link: 

www.continyou.org.uk/singingbreakfastclubs

Singing can help you meet all five Core Offer areas and Every Child Matter outcomes

'Singing is a versatile tool that can help schools develop their extended provision and greatly contribute to Every Child Matters' explains Matthew Freeman Development Manager for Sing Up.

Download and read the attached document below; 'School improvement and singing' for more information.

New campaign film

Watch the new Sing Up campaign film on the Sing Up YouTube channel.