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Reviews: ABCD's Leading Singing in Primary Schools CPD

Sara-Lois Cunningham reviews a new course for leading singing in primary schools from ABCD.
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To be a great singing leader, you don’t have to be the world’s greatest singer.’ So says tenor and conductor Charles MacDougall. But it is helpful, he goes on to say, to have knowledge of how your own voice works, and of what sensations to expect, ‘being aware of what you might hear and feel when singing’.

This is just one of many highly pertinent and motivating insights from the first video of six from ABCD’s fabulous online resource ‘Leading Singing in Primary Schools’.

‘This new course is designed to develop confidence, knowledge and skills for all teachers who lead young singers in primary schools, whether in a choir, classroom or whole school, whatever their experience level’, says general secretary of ABCD, Rachel Greaves. ‘It took the form of an online twilight course of six sessions. Participants could attend either the webinar live or watch the recordings at their convenience. The format proved a great success and so we have made all the recorded sessions available for people to buy.’

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