With very few primary schools employing a specialist music teacher to teach classroom music and lead singing in school ensembles, music provision is often left to generalist classroom teachers who have very little training in teaching music and, as a consequence, find delivering music daunting. We offer projects to schools where there is deprivation – a high percentage of the children are eligible for free school meals or English is not their first language – and a lack of music provision.

Our projects offer a series of in-school workshops led by members of our professional team. Each workshop includes warm-ups to build basic musical skills; learning and perfecting songs to be sung in concert; developing creativity through improvisation, soundscapes and roleplays; and performance training to build confidence and self-possession. Each project includes a professional performance with our one of our groups, VOCES8 or Apollo5, and training and support for classroom teachers.