National Singup Day is on Wednesday!

We will be busy in singing in 2P this week!

The children are trying to complete singing challenges, they are awarded a star as a class, depending on what they do.

Can they do any at home?

National Sing Up Day Challenges- Start now!

1 Star Challenges

·         Sing a song whenever you need a brain-break

·         Do a vocal warm-up before class from our Song Bank

·         Get a star for every song you can sing without the words

·         Share your Sing Up magazines with another member of staff

·         Sing a song in a round

·         Use your Sing Up stop sign – and if you don’t have one, make one! You can also order one here

·         Sing The tidying up song when you’ve made a mess!

·         Play a singing clapping game

·         Sing a chant

·         Discuss your favourite pop songs and singers

5 Star Challenges

·         Take it in turns to try some conducting

·         Try out beatboxing

·         Choreograph some movement to your song

·         Sing a song to a dinner lady

·         Spend your break-time or lunchtime playing singing games

·         Sing a song in another language. If you can translate it, get 5 more stars!

·         Sing a hello and goodbye song at the beginning and end of the day

·         Upload your event onto our National Sing Up Day map, if you haven’t already

·         Sing a song about mathematics or appropriate to another non-music lesson

·         Listen to your school choir perform 

10 Star challenges

Hold a performance by your staff choir

·         Have a singing contest

·         Get a teacher who doesn’t usually lead singing to lead a song with the class

·         Get a member of staff who plays an instrument to accompany a song

·         Appoint new Young Singing Leaders for today only, and get them to lead singing across the school

·         Have a song that you have to sing on every hour, no matter what you’re doing!

·         Write new words to an old song

·         Choose a song you love and discuss what makes it your favourite

·         Write a rap about National Sing Up Day

·         Sing a song with harmonies 

20 Star Challenges

Choose an era – like the Victorian times – and learn songs that were written during that period

·         Record a song and get it played on your local radio station

·         Find a bandstand, pavilion or gazebo and give a performance to passers by

·         Invite guests from another school, or visit another school and have a joined-up singing celebration!

·         Write an alternative anthem for your school

·         Find out what parents’ favourite songs are, learn them, and perform them to the parents at an end of school assembly

·         Get your dinner ladies to teach you a song

·         Go on a singing walk around your community

·         Stage a ‘Flash Mob Sing’ in your playground

·         Have a Sing Up Session at your next staff meeting