Primary toolkit for singing and vocal work

Whether you are just starting out with singing in your teaching practice or looking to further embed it in your school, the Primary Music Toolkit from Dr Alison Daubney and ISM Trust – in collaboration with Sing Up – has everything you need to improve musical learning in your school. Explore how to create a singing community, teach your pupils to read, write and compose music, how to select and teach a song and much, much more.

Further reading

The benefits of singing
Research
The benefits of singing
It’s always useful to know exactly why singing is so beneficial. Professor Graham Welch sums up the latest research. Also available as a downloadable PDF
Cracking the code
Teaching Ideas
Cracking the code
What really is the relationship between those strange dots and lines and the aural, physical experience of music? And why does notation strike terror into the hearts of so many teachers?
Teachers need choirs too
Singing and Health
Teachers need choirs too
Inspired by the National Teachers Choir, we're looking at the ways teachers benefit from singing together as much as their students do
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