Watch our video to hear about Gold Award School, Wigginton Primary's Awards journey.
Schools that have pledged to the Gold Award developed singing in these key areas:
- People: encouraging everyone in the school to find their voice
- Skills: developing confidence and competence in singing skills
- Choice: providing opportunities for children to compose and enjoy a diverse range of singing
- Context: supporting the wider curriculum and school development aims.
The current criteria to achieve Gold are:
- The Headteacher sings with the school
- Children develop reflective and critical skills about singing
- Pupils sometimes lead singing
- There is group singing for every child in the school everyday
- Children take part in choosing repertoire, and in bringing or creating their own
- Children can sing in a range of different ways such as solos, playgrounds, squads and choirs
- Children and staff create new original music with their voices
- All staff are frequently involved in singing
- At least two staff frequently lead singing
- Singing takes place across and beyond the music curriculum
- Singing energises a range of everyday school activities and routines
- Communal singing marks significant moments of school life
- Pupils at the school explore and value a diverse range of singing
Here's what some Gold Schools have said -
"The children at our school are very aware of our goal to achieve Gold. They seek me out to sing or show me a duet that they've practised in the playground!"
Louise Adams, Moorlands Primary School
"Through Sing Up the profile of singing and music within the school and community has just grown from strength to strength. It supports so many areas of the curriculum and has so many beneficial effects.”
"The Award gave us the chance to develop our singing further. We used the Sing Up website on a regular basis and some of the children also access the website at home to work on songs we have been learning."
Register your interest in the new Awards framework now and begin your Awards journey in April 2012.
Mr Campbell Report this comment
Posted 30th Oct 2011 12:01
hi miss bathe here we have done them all on sing up
Sing Up Team Report this comment
Posted 3rd Aug 2011 04:46
Hi Mrs Wheatley,
Sorry to hear that you're having trouble, but don't stress - you can email the evidence and recordings to awards@singup.org. If you explain the problem you're having with pledging for Silver, they'll be able to sort it out for you!
Mrs Wheatley Report this comment
Posted 20th Jul 2011 08:59
Hi x we are a Silver Sing Up! school and we are trying to go for Gold!!! I have spent all year collecting the evidence and jumping out at people with my dictaphone and now, I can't upload my precious recordings as I can't even pledge to go for the award! HELP!
Sing Up Team Report this comment
Posted 1st Apr 2011 12:30
Hi Mr Ferris,
Great to hear you're going for gold - please get in touch with our awards team who will be able to advise! Drop an email to: awards@singup.org
Mr Ferris Report this comment
Posted 31st Mar 2011 03:30
Our school have made a pledge for the Gold award (High Down Junior School) and we are really keen to move this forward. I think there may have been some confusion as to how we are assessed in the past and I am just enquiring as to how we arrange for a Sing Up assessor to come and visit us!?
We are working above and beyond the criteria for silver and have sufficient evidence to prove that we should be able to achieve gold! Please help!
Thanks
Mr Squire Report this comment
Posted 17th Dec 2010 09:16
We have just heard that we have now achieved Sing Up Gold Award, which fantastic news for our children, staff and school community! You can do it too! Here is some of the feedback from our Sing Up assessor:
The wealth of inspiring people and new ideas that enrich the daily lives and singing activities of the young people at Red Marsh School is amazing! What lucky pupils, parents and teachers you have at your school and in those schools who are able to connect with you. It is wonderful to see the range of experiences that are available to all and you generously share these with others. The number and variety of opportunities you have created for your pupils is outstanding and you have made huge efforts to support both through personal contribution/leadership and by extending the depth, breadth and range of singing through the additional leadership of inspiring professionals. Good teaching and learning encompasses all of your work, and singing is clearly embedded right across the curriculum with all teachers making efforts to become involved. Several of your pupils are beginning to take a leading role in singing activities. You encourage them to make choices and to assess their own work. You nurture a creative approach giving pupils the freedom to find and use their voices in their own way and to perform above and beyond expectations.
Your teachers are very good at finding their own style of leadership and the emphasis is clearly on enjoyment. They, and your visitors, bring a wide range of musical genres and activities for everyone to experience. The school environment, both inside and outside, is totally geared up to giving everyone - pupils, teachers and visitors - a joyful experience and one only has to look at the faces of the young people in the photographs to know how well you have succeeded. Your plans for future outreach work, both in the local community and further afield are evidence of your wholehearted commitment to singing.
Congratulations on the wealth of evidence you have set before Sing Up. Your Gold Award is richly deserved and you are now only a step away from the Platinum Award!
Mr Squire Report this comment
Posted 26th Oct 2010 10:11
When we achieved the Sing Up Silver Award the children were absolutely thrilled to see themselves and our school featured on the SIng Up Website in the Success Stories section! It has made singing even more high profile and singing now takes place right across the curriculum.
We are now committed to achieving the Gold Award as soon as we can. As I look closer at the criteria for Gold Award I see we are already doing most of it. I can only imagine the enthusiasm of the children when they see themselves on the website for Gold! Sing Up is great. Go for Gold!