The Voices Foundation is creating a major singing programme in four regions: London Borough of Havering, Hereford, North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, in order to support the current work of the Sing Up Area Leaders. They will be introducing a whole school music education programme linked to the national curriculum, to 15 Primary Schools. In line with The Voices Foundation's overall mission, "transforming children through singing" these regional projects will create a series of sustainable singing programmes benefitting approximately 4,000 children and reaching 200 teachers.

 

Aims and Objectives

 

• To support Sing Up and help them shape the landscape of primary-aged singing in England through a specially adapted version of The Voices Foundation's unique One Year Whole School music education programme.
• To create a strategic five-tiered training programme reaching primary school teachers in four regions of England.
• To train up to 200 non-specialist classroom teachers to teach music with the same skills, confidence and resource material that they have for all Foundation subjects.
• To introduce up to 4,000 children to a library of accessible singing games through their own classroom teachers.
• To get children singing with their teachers as part of their daily school activities
• To give 4,000 children a grounding in key musicianship skills.
• To support other areas of the curriculum i.e. language, literacy skills and numeracy.
• To help build children's confidence and self-esteem.
• To help music co-ordinators develop music skills needed for an aural/vocal approach to music ecuation in primary school curriculum and thereby to support their own colleagues in the classroom.
• To train up a number of Local Advisory Teachers in partnership with their Music Services to support Voices schools and also deliver singing programmes in new schools.
• To establish a number of Young Voices after-school singing clubs linked to at least one school in each of the four regions, and to train up teachers who can then lead them in the future.
• To complete the project with a fully sustainable singing programme embedded in a number of primary schools in the four regions, with trainined music leaders who can develop the work, and take singing into more schools in future years.

 

For more information, please contact Nicola Wallis.