“Sing Education have given our children the opportunity to thrive creatively, and helped unlock the potential of music in our school.”
Leonie Lobo – Head, Ravenor Primary School
Great music education should be...
- ENJOYABLE
- CHALLENGING
- ACHIEVABLE
It needs to be supportive and provide space for children to be creative, and include group activity to help build social skills - National Plan for Music Education
HOW IT ALL BEGAN...
Founded by Josh Cadman, Alice Cadman and Bert Routledge in 2014. We all had the joint vision for a more exciting and rewarding primary school music education. We believe music should be fun and exciting, enabling children to engage with it - finding out why they like music and what it is they like about it.
Born out of our experience of primary school music, both as peripatetic music teachers, parents and governors, we believe children deserve more than what is currently on offer in some primary schools.
What makes Sing Education so special?
OUR BESPOKE LESSONS AND CLUBS
Following the publication of the Department for Education’s ‘2012 National Plan for Music Education’ and the ‘2012 OfSTED Music Best Practice Case Studies’, our schemes of work have been developed to allow for first-class, innovative classroom music teaching, by our highly trained music staff to comply with the new ‘2014 National Curriculum for Music’.
Our Schemes of Work are divided into a programme of varied and balanced course units. Each yearlong curriculum plan is divided into 6 half termly units. Each of our units allow for consistent and progressive learning and development of knowledge, year on year, of the main areas of study; Understanding, Performing and Creating Music. pupils also learn through high-impact units of work, varying from ‘Music From Around The World’ and ‘The Lion King’ units, to ‘Music for Dance’ and ‘Ukulele’.
Each term also can have gap weeks within the units, which allow space for one-off workshops, cross-year collaborative work and for the insertion of special classes to tie in with School Curriculum weeks. Pupils are assessed through termly performances and written work, and during lessons and extra-curricular activities.
Our diverse extra-curricular offering allows a flexible approach to school music. Extra-curricular music can be utilised to provide wider school opportunities to pupils that don’t have access to music in the home, and also create a vibrant musical culture that gifted and talented pupils can thrive and grow in. We can offer groups including assemblies, school choir, staff choir, instrument tuition, school productions/shows and performing arts clubs.
OUR INSPIRATIONAL TEACHERS
All of our highly skilled music teachers, are sourced from some of the country's best music conservatoires and universities. Our teaching staff are given comprehensive training in curriculum delivery, classroom craft, assessment monitoring, behavior management and child protection and are DBS checked.
Sing Education aim to keep staffing consistent, by ensuring that staffing is long-term and reliable, not changing staff members where at all possible, and assigning classes specific teaching that will remain with them for the duration of the year.
Alongside inducting and training our staff in our own set of polices, we will also give them a full induction into your own school policies and practices, allowing our staff to fully integrate in a consistent manner into the learning experience of the pupils. We also offer our staff CPD routes, both our own in-house programmes but also external qualifications and training courses, allow them not just to teach, but to learn through the experience of teaching.
WHY CHOOSE SING EDUCATION?
We believe every child should have the best available access to a musical education from the very earliest opportunity.
At Sing Education, we have identified what Primary schools need to deliver this and believe our expertise can help schools achieve this. Aimed at schools who don't have these resources, Sing Education's aim is to take away their musical problems and install a system that is proven to deliver a fast and effective solution.
A school's musical problem solved… a child's musical needs fulfilled.
LET’S MAKE MUSIC - TOGETHER!
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"Our Sing Education specialist is an extremely talented musician, with the character and skills to communicate a love of and ability in music to our pupils and staff. The children are enthused, confident and engaged. I have no hesitation in recommending Sing Education."
Sue Hussey – Head, St Clement & St James Primary School
"We are absolutely delighted with our Sing Education specialist. Thank you for the continued great customer service."
Kerry Shilling – Head, Selborne Primary School
"Tuesday afternoons will never be the same again! My son's ukulele teacher is brilliant and has a great relationship with the children."
Lisa Farnham-Hyatt – Parent
"Having the expertise and skill of Sing Education has promoted music to the high stakes curriculum area that it deserves to be. We are really excited about the future of music for our children."
Leonie Lobo – Head, Ravenor Primary School
"My class very much enjoy their music lessons. Our Sing Education specialist is well organised and skilled. The lessons are planned so that they build on prior learning each week, and behaviour management is good."
Year 5 Class Teacher - Coston Primary School
Leadership Team
Josh Cadman
RNCM graduate, Josh Cadman, has worked in music education for over 8 years, as a choir director, musical director, vocal coach, and music teacher. Josh has worked in various primary and secondary schools, including developing the whole school Singing Programme for Twyford CE Academies Trust.
Alice Cadman
Having also studied at the RNCM as a first study vocal and opera student, Alice is passionate about music education, and sharing her experience and knowledge. Having taught in primary and secondary schools for a number of years, Alice experienced first hand the struggle that peripatetic music teachers face in finding current and exciting schemes of work.
Bert Routledge
A musician, parent and primary school foundation Governor, Bert has been involved with and surrounded by music all his life, from studio engineering to live bands, writing and performing.
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