This brand new flexible course is designed to develop confidence, knowledge and skills for all teachers who lead young singers in primary schools, whether in a choir, in a classroom, or the whole school, whatever their experience level.
Each session lasts around 75 minutes, led by one of our specialist music education team.
All the live sessions were recorded and are now available to book - find out more about each session below.
Individual Sessions: £15 per session (non-member) or £10 per session (abcd member)
Full series: all six sessions can be bought for a bundle price of £75 (non-member) or £50 (abcd member).
Links to the recorded sessions are sent out manually, along with any additional resources. Please allow 2-3 days after booking - we are a tiny team.
Find out more about joining abcd and all the benefits it offers here
In this session, participants will explore their voice, unlocking their skills and gaining tools for healthy, effective and confident vocal leadership. This session will be suitable for those totally new to leading singing, as well as more experienced vocalists looking to refresh their thinking!
Join Suzzie Vango, conductor for the National Children's Choir of Great Britain and voice coach to the CBSO Youth Choruses, as she leads you through some fun, engaging and healthy vocal warm ups and songs aimed at younger singers. Be prepared to act your shoe size, not your age!
Join us as we share and chat about our favourite repertoire to engage primary school-aged children, whether in whole-class singing or choirs. We'll be singing through a diverse range of songs for whole class singing and choirs and give you the tools needed to teach them in the most effective and fun way possible!
This session shows how leading music can be realised through a variety of different skills. Amy covers strategies ranging from pitch scaffolding and solfa hand signs, to kinaesthetic gestures and simple beat patterns in order to equip teachers with a broad range of useful singing leadership skills. Come and be inspired and enlightened by the potential of your musical making in classrooms, school assemblies, performances and playgrounds.
Dr Rebecca Berkley, University of Reading, leads a webinar on using singing as the basis for teaching classroom musicianship to children aged 5-11. This session investigates ways to build classroom music lessons from singing for children in year 1-6. Participants will explore how to teach musicianship skills by integrating singing with work on beat and rhythm, pitch awareness, movement and action, aural training and the beginning of reading and writing music, and analyse classroom songs to help pick age-appropriate repertoire for the classroom.
Join Richard Jeffries and Jo McNally as they take you through the twists and turns of the part-singing path. There'll be ideas, repertoire and a plan to help your singer to develop confidence, musicianship skills, and sing with joy as they progress from unison to part-singing, from adapting repertoire you may currently use, to exploring exciting newer materials - and where to find them! Join us for a practical, fun and fully interactive session!