AMV-BBDO
One of the four Sing Up Consortium partners, and lead partner for the campaign workstrand. AMV BBDO is the UK's No. 1 advertising agency-they did the Make Poverty History campaign and have an awesome client list, including Sainsbury's, Mars, BT and various Government departments.

Area Leader
Your contact on the ground, and the front-line of Sing Up. The Area Leader's job is to provide direct support to schools, organise training & CPD(Continuing Professional Development) & mentoring for singing leaders, and plug themselves and their schools into local networks. They come in all shapes and sizes, from music services to individual vocal tutors to Youth Music Action Zones.

Associate Partners

These are (currently) ContinYou and The Federation of Music Services.

Campaign
One of Sing Up’s five main workstrands, which aims to raise awareness of the value of singing, and encourage engagement with Sing Up. Led by AMV BBDO.

Choir Schools Association (CSA)
Part of the National Singing Programme, the CSA has been directly funded by Government to extend its outreach programme across all English Choir Schools. Each project in the Chorister Outreach Programme includes chorister visits to primary schools and joint concerts, the setting up of Saturday junior choirs and the employment of animateurs to work with schools in the area.
Check out the Choir Schools Association.

Sing Up Consortium
The group of four partner organisations who are running the National Singing Programme under the banner of Sing Up.  They are YOUTH MUSIC (Lead Partner), AMV-BBDO (Campaign Partner), FABER MUSIC (Resource Partner) and THE SAGE GATESHEAD (Workforce Development Partner).

ContinYou
An Associate Partner of Sing Up, ContinYou looks after our Sing Up Clusters. ContinYou’s work encompasses extended services in schools, family learning, parental support, out-of-school-hours learning, health improvement and health literacy, young people, schools and communities, supplementary schools and community regeneration.

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
The Government department funding for the National Singing Programme until 2011, to the tune of £40 million, and responsible for the Government's wider investment of £332 million music education. Sing Up also works closely with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Sing Up Clusters
Part of the funded programmes workstrand which focuses on developing singing activity outside of standard school hours through a cluster of primary-age schools often working in partnership with a specialist college (see Specialist schools & academies trust, also see ContinYou).

Faber Music
One of the four Sing Up consortium partners, and lead partner for the Resource workstrand. Faber Music is a leading music publisher.

Federation of Music Services (FMS)
FMS currently represents 135 Music Services across England, most of which deliver local authority music provision. FMS is an Associate Partner of Sing Up.

Funded Programmes
One of Sing Up’s main workstrands which supports schools and organisations to deliver high-quality sustainable singing activities. It includes Sing Up Communities, Sing Up Clusters and pretty much anything else we dream up which gives singing a decent boost across the country. Led by Youth Music.

Hearts & Minds Projects
In Phase I (November 2007-March 2008), Sing Up funded 19 organisations across the country to deliver high-quality practical projects with children and teachers, ranging from ongoing training and CPD for teachers to composition projects with video elements, massed school choir performances and a Sing Up choir at the Olympic Torch Ceremony.

Howard Goodall
See Our Singing Ambassador

KS2 Music CPD Programme
A DCSF-funded programme to provide comprehensive training and mentoring to teachers and music leaders delivering, or planning to deliver, whole-class instrumental and vocal tuition (AKA Wider Opportunities).

Sing Up Magazine
A free termly magazine for primary schools and those regularly leading singing in them. Featuring a wealth of interesting articles, singing hints and tips, plus 10 songs in printed form and an accompanying CD in each issue. Register for the magazine here.

MusicLeader
Youth Music’s Workforce Development initiative for anyone leading music activities with young people. It provides training and professional development opportunities, and complements Sing Up. Join MusicLeader for free.

Music Manifesto
It's all their fault! The Music Manifesto was developed by DfES (now DCSF) and DCMS in collaboration with the wider music industry to recommend the way forward for music education in England.

Music Manifesto Report No. 2 recommended a number of major singing initiatives, including a national campaign to put singing at the heart of all primary schools. The Government responded to this brilliantly by announcing £10 million of investment into the National Singing Programme, which has now become £40 million. Yippee!

MusicStart
Developed by Youth Music as part of Sing Up, MusicStart is a fun, easy to use pack to encourage families with 2-5 year olds to make music at home. 100,000 packs have been distributed throughout England through Sure Start Centres.

The National Singing Programme
The Government’s overall plan to make all primary schools ‘Singing Schools'. This includes Sing Up’s workstrands, plus the Choir Schools Association programme and MusicStart.

Primary-age school
Any school with primary-aged pupils (i.e. any or all of Years 1 to 6), middle and special schools, as well as designated primary schools. This currently accounts for 26,205 schools with 5,895,254 pupils (stats from Education Direct).

Raising Voices
Delivered by The Sage Gateshead, this Training, CPD & Mentoring programme will ensure that all those wishing to lead singing can gain the right skills and experience, and that those already leading singing can broaden their skills. Raising Voices is offered both as a palette of off-the-shelf courses from the nation's singing experts, and also via Area Leaders, who have a budget to organise bespoke training in their areas.

Resource
One of Sing Up's main workstrands, providing a comprehensive singing resource for children and singing leaders. It comprises a website, a free termly magazine for primary school Singing Leaders and an online Song Bank containing lots of songs. You can lose yourself for hours exploring all this stuff. Led by Faber Music.

The Sage Gateshead
One of the four Sing Up Consortium partners, and lead partner for the Workforce Development workstrand. The Sage Gateshead is an international home for music and musical discovery, bringing about a widespread and long-term enrichment of the musical life of the North of England.

Singing Ambassador
Howard Goodall is the man tasked with the job of bringing singing back to the nation’s children. You won’t find a more passionate or effective advocate of the benefits of singing for all young people.

Singing leader
Anyone who regularly leads group singing activities with young people. By 2011 we aim to have at least two singing leaders in every school. See also young singing leaders.

Singing school
We define this as a school committed to singing, and one in which:

• all pupils sing for at least five minutes every day.
• the whole school sings together at least once a week.
• singing regularly occurs both in and out of the classroom, and in and outside the school day.
• at least two people are confident to lead singing.
• pupils sing in performances periodically, and at least annually.
• the school recognises the value of singing as a teaching and learning tool across the curriculum.  
• the head teacher, governors and staff support singing.

Sing Up School Awards
The Awards recognise, celebrate and promote schools who are committed to singing. Each award involves a journey through an action plan defined by the school, rewarding progress and development.

Silver and Gold are awarded following an online audit and evaluation process. Platinum is awarded by nomination.

Sing Up Communities
Part of the Funded Programmes Workstrand. There are currently 15 Sing Up Communities, each given funds to increase and improve singing in their area. They will work with children and young people who have had little or no experience of ongoing singing activity before.

Each project aims to reach 2,000 children over the course of two years, and will range from whole-school singing to residential courses to community choirs and composition projects based on the ideas and experiences of the children involved.

Song
We define a song as being any piece of music of finite length, suitable for singing, which is set down in print, audio or audio-visual. This includes non-notated repertoire (e.g. orally transmitted, improvised) which may be printed graphically or as instructions, and from a broad range of vocal traditions, including pop or folk song, choral, rap, chant, or singing game.

Song Bank
Pretty much what it says on the tin: an online bank of songs for primary-aged children, covering a huge range of styles and curriculum links, with supporting notes and activities. By April 2009, there will be 300 songs available for download. We’ll also be developing an area for user-generated content, because we want to hear your songs too. No really!

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT)
SSAT is a leading body for secondary education that coordinates the work of specialist schools and academies, including Specialist Music Colleges. Sing Up is partnering with SSAT through many of its Extended Schools.
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Training & CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
See RAISING VOICES.

Transition
From Sing Up’s point of view, this covers:

• the transfer between Foundation and Year 1 (Primary)
• the transfer between Year 6 (Primary) and Year 7 of (Secondary)

Vocal Force
Vocal Force delivers inclusive, learner-centred training and professional development for Singing Leaders with primary-age children in 60 areas across England. The programme will invest in the development of approximately 50 vocal leaders in each of the areas.

Website
A comprehensive resource for singing, providing access to, and information on, all parts of Sing Up, from music for download from the Song Bank to your Area Leader's contact details, and a search engine for Training & CPD.

Workforce Development Programme
One of Sing Up’s main work-strands building and developing a committed and effective workforce to lead singing in and out of the classroom and the school, including young leaders. It comprises Training, CPD & Mentoring for Singing Leaders and Young Singing Leaders, and is responsible for the Area Leaders network and Vocal Force. Led by SAGE GATESHEAD.

Work-strands
Sing Up’s four main work-strands are:

• Campaign AMV BBDO
• Funded Programmes Youth Music
• Resource Faber Music
• Workforce Development (The Sage Gateshead)

Everything we’re doing links to our objectives in these areas.

Young Singing Leader
A Singing Leader aged 18 or under. By 2011 we aim to have at least one Young Singing Leader in every school. See also Singing Leader.

Youth Music
Lead partner of the Sing Up consortium working directly with the DCSF, and making sure all this funding is spent on singing. Youth Music also looks after the Funded Programme Workstrand, the Sing Up Magazine and Website and oversees Sing Up's Marketing & Communications. Youth Music is the Uk's largest children's music charty, promoting and supporting music-making opportunities and providing advice to children from birth to 18 with the least access, including some of the UK's most disadvantaged young people. Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training.

Zoologist
Somebody who may or may not sing everyday, but we did say this was an A-Z, so here's your Z!