Issue No.
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Introduction from Baz Chapman, Programme Director 8. 45,587 people have taken part in Sing Up training and professional development activities – teachers, teaching assistants, headteachers, music specialists, parents and many more.
Just two school terms left for Sing Up in its current funding cycle, and we enter our final academic year in a very strong position. Here are our Top 10 stats for August:
9. Through a partnership with the National Children’s Bureau, we have launched 7 pioneering projects to support singing with Looked After Children.
1. Almost 90% of state primary schools have registered with Sing Up (78,219 individuals registered), and the Sing Up brand is widely recognised and ranked as one of the top initiatives for schools.
10. Research into over 100 schools by the Institute of Education has shown that children in schools engaged with Sing Up are around 2 years further advanced in their singing competency than those in non- Sing Up schools.
2. There are an average of over 3 registrants per school and 15 per Music Service.
As we continue planning a sustainable national model for singing, post- March 2011 (including support for new domains such as early years and secondary), we know we’re doing so on a solid platform. Sing Up is now recognised across the world for the positivity of its message, the flexibility of its approach and, most importantly, the support and partnerships it has enjoyed from across the music and education sectors.
3. 2,749 schools - 15% of primary schools - are on course to achieve a Sing Up Award for placing singing at the heart of school life. 4. 73% of Special Schools (nearly 700) are registered with Sing Up. 5. Sing Up is working in partnership with all 147 Music Services in England, along with several hundred other local, regional and national organisations, such as faith settings, Youth Music Action Zones, secondary schools and the Training and Development Agency for Schools.
In this bulletin, an update on our progress with Principles of Good Quality Vocal Leadership, a refreshed website (including the return of the much missed A-Z Song Bank search!) and some heartening news of Sing Up’s funded programmes living on into the future.
6. The website receives 8,000-9,000 visits per day, with users spending on average 8 minutes per visit. 7. Song Bank songs are downloaded an average of 7,100 times and streamed 98,600 times each week.
Baz Chapman Programme Director
Sing Up, the Music Manifesto National Singing Programme, produced by Youth Music with AMV-BBDO, Faber Music and The Sage Gateshead, supported by Government
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