Sing Up
Sing Up, the national initiative for raising the status of singing in primary schools has come to Cornwall! Sing Up is hosted by Kernow Education Arts Partnership and delivered by Area Leader Angela Renshaw
For more information email Angela Renshaw keapcornwall@singup.org or visit the national site www.singup.org
Sing Up INSETS for Primary Schools
Choirs & Singing Activities information about singing for children and young people in Cornwall
Lev Krev Kernow Vocal Force a long term training programme and project in the Mevagissey and Newquay areas focussed on traditional Cornish music for teachers, folk musicians, male voice choirs
About Sing Up
Sing Up is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme. It is a programme to make sure that singing is at the heart of every primary school child’s life, in the firm belief that singing has power to change lives and help to build stronger communities.
Angela’s role as Area Leader is to work with organisations and individuals to build and develop a skilled, enthusiastic vocal leadership workforce for primary school-aged children, through a Cornwall-wide programme of training and professional development activities, so that all primary aged children can participate in healthy, musical singing everyday.
IN the last year Angela has delivered a programme of training for teachers and music leaders, a project for singing for deaf children, as well as special programmes in particular schools working with the Association of Choral Directors (abcd) and a programme to develop groups of young singing leaders.
Many people will already know Angela from her work with the Cornwall Boys Choir, Cornwall Junior Choir and the Holman Climax Male Voice Choir. She also sings with the St Mary’s Singers and teaches music at Truro Prep School. She was also recently interviewed on BBC1’s Songs of Praise.
Sing Up AIM: For every primary school-aged child to take part in high-quality singing activity every day.
- Raise awareness of the value of singing, and encourage engagement with Sing Up.
- Provide a comprehensive singing resource for children and singing leaders.
- Build and develop a committed and effective workforce to lead singing in and out of the classroom and the school, including young leaders.
- Support schools and organisations across the country to deliver high-quality sustainable singing activities through partnerships and share good practice.
Sing Up Training
We have a range of training for singing leaders in primary schools, and this can include teachers,TAs, parents, freelance musicians, music service team...anyone who leads singing in primary schools.
More training courses for the new term will be up on this page shortly, and also see Lev Krev Kernow Vocal Force for a long term training programme and project in the Mevagissey and Newquay areas focussed on traditional Cornish music for teachers, folk musicians, male voice choirs...
Projects - Sing Up! Cousin Jacks
There is a well known saying in Cornwall that 'a mine is a hole anywhere in the world with at least one Cornishman at the bottom of it!' Young people from 28 Cornish schools brought this story alive through songs and music reflecting the Cornish mining heritage across the world at the Hall for Cornwall on 23 June 2010.
As the culmination of a Super Sing Up cluster project over 500 young people from the secondary schools and their feeder primaries in Bodmin, Brannel, Camelford, Wadebridge and Richard Lander created a performance charting the journey from Cornwall to America, Africa and Australia by Cornish miners in the 18th and 19th centuries. They performed to a sell out audience at Hall for Cornwall with the audience joining in the finale song, ‘Cornwall, the land I love,’ by Richard Gendall.
Sing Up is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme for primary school-aged children in England and the Super Sing Up Clusters are managed by Continyou and are funded programmes that enable secondary schools to lead on exciting singing projects with their feeder primary schools.
This programme has involved Young Singing Leaders from the secondary schools leading singing activities in the feeder primaries, and professional singing leaders Barry Hawken, Zoe Zallick, Kirsty Rowe and Sing Up Area Leader Angela Renshaw providing songs, training and support to students and teachers. The performance included musical accompaniment from Cornish bands Dall and Leski, along with Imerys Mid Cornwall Male Voice Choir. The performance was animated by Cscape Dance Company and the whole story was pulled together using short films of archive photos kindly sent by descendants of Cornish miners through the Cornish American Heritage Society and the SW Wisconsin Cornish Society. Angela Renshaw, Sing Up Area Leader said, ‘Having contact with the families of Cornish miners in America really made the project seem real. They were very excited about the project and gave us lots of history about their families, along with the photos. This gave such an edge to the performance, the nostalgia created by these photos along with archive pictures of Cornwall as a working, mining community gave gravitas to the children’s performances.’
Sing Up in Cornwall is hosted by Kernow Education Arts Partnership who have also been helping to shape this project. Helen Reynolds from KEAP says, ‘Ruins of mining chimneys are part of the Cornish landscape and such an important part of Cornwall’s history. It’s wonderful for children to discover that Cornwall was such a leading force in mining skills around the world, and that the Cornish influence is still so evident today in some of those communities.’
Truro Cathedral Scholars as part of the Richard Lander cluster performance
The Wadebridge Cluster performance
Images for Cousin Jacks by Sean Hurlock www.seanhurlockphotography.com
Projects - Music and the Deaf
Dr Paul Whittaker led workshops working with children within a cluster of schools including special schools. Mainstream school pupils learned a selection of songs by signing to perform with children for whom signing is their main form of communication.
After a first week with the schools earlier this year, the MATD team return in June 2009 for a week of workshops culminating in a final concert at Truro Cathedral on Thursday 18 June 2009.
If you want more information about this project, please contact Area leader Angela Renshaw on keapcornwall@singup.org
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