Pupils and teachers at Fosse Way Special School are delighted to have received the
prestigious ‘Sing Up’ Gold Award for their efforts in promoting a culture of singing throughout the school. The initiative was led by Fosse Way’s music co-ordinator, Becca Hastie, who has championed singing for all pupils in Fosse Way’s 3 to 19 age range.
The Sing Up Organisation was created in 2007 with the aim of making high-quality singing activities regularly accessible to all children and young people.
At Fosse Way, pupils in the reception and primary classes have developed a novel approach to taking the register that transforms the usual mundane roll-call of names into a cheerful song to greet each member of the class at the start and end of the day.
Songs have also been widely integrated into the speech and language sessions that regularly take place in school. They have, for instance, proven particularly successful in sessions designed to enhance pupils’ attention and engagement capabilities. Fosse Way pupils now regularly sing as they move from one lesson to the next, which teachers have been recording so they can share their ideas with colleagues. This recorded evidence of the many ways in which singing is incorporated in pupils’ day-to-day learning has helped to provide the vital evidence that enabled Fosse Way to scoop the sought after Gold Award.
The pupils and members of staff who have contributed to the success of Sing Up at Fosse Way are rightly proud of their achievement in meeting the assessors’ exacting standard for the Gold level certificate.
Becca Hastie commented: “This is a great achievement as we are one of few schools in B&NES who have achieved the Gold Award!”