“You lit up the school for the whole year, not just for the week!”
Stephen Holroyd, Principal, Shrewsbury International School, Bangkok, 2010
Joyful Singing Projects for Schools
Sing your way through the school day! Ex Cathedra’s Education Team is known for the quality of its innovative singing projects for schools. We can help you put joyful singing at the heart of your school community, to bring the health and wellbeing benefits, as well as the cognitive, musical, personal and social benefits to everyone.
Child-led singing play in the playground.
With an offer of CPD, school visits, workshops, events and digital supporting resource we can deliver a bespoke project for your school, hub or festival. Or simply follow our digital resource to create your own Singing Playgrounds® project.
Created by Rebecca Ledgard and Ula Weber in 2004, and developed and delivered by our award-winning team of teachers and expert musicians, we have worked with hundreds of thousands of children in schools across the world.
Playful singing for the EY classroom.
With an offer of CPD, school visits, workshops, interactive concerts and digital supporting resource we can deliver a bespoke package for your school, hub or festival. Or simply use our digital resource to bring our engaging, exprt team of musicians and teachers into your classroom.
Our team writes the songs for your children. We have been working together for 20+ years, and we care about how to bring quality, joyful singing experiences to children.
In-the-moment, exhilarating group singing
With an offer of CPD, workshops, events, concerts (of your children), and digital resource we can deliver a bespoke project for your school, hub or festival. Or simply use our digital resource so that at the click of a button you can have our fantastic team in your KS 1, 2 or 3 classroom or assembly hall.
Let us get your children singing. SingMaker is our project for in-the-moment, joyous group singing in which children sing their hearts out, move, dance, and laugh. Youth voice is at the heart of our in-the-moment practices. All the songs are written by our team who together have led the music-making for more than 20 years. It’s fun, and filled with skills development. Our songbooks are also available to buy.
You’ve established a culture of singing through our SingMaker project, now, with our help, you can develop a choir.
For the Y7 cohort, and with an offer of CPD, workshops and supporting digital resource we can deliver a bespoke project for your school or hub. Or simply use our digital resource for support, inspiration, ideas and repertoire.
“Spend 5 minutes with an Ex Cathedra Vocal Tutor and you’ll want to sing!”
Howard Goodall CBE,
Ambassador for National Singing Programme,
2007-2011
Inspiring singing
Credit: Warwickshire Music
We believe singing should be at the heart of every school community. Singing is really powerful for the wellbeing of individuals and communities. Our schools programmes have been developed by our award-winning team over many years to enable and inspire schools to do just that.
If only every day could start with singing…
“In 21 years it was the most inspiring singing event that I have attended”
Karen Kennedy, Head teacher, Birmingham
Singing across the world
Testimonials
Here at Shrewsbury HK we have been fortunate enough to have an annual visit from a truly inspiring team from the UK, ‘Ex Cathedra’ who have run some brilliant singing workshops and performances with our students. The team are fantastic at what they do, and the songs are quick to learn, fun to sing, and hugely popular with the students. These songs will make a useful addition to your resource bank through class suspension and beyond (I rarely teach a lesson anymore without making use of something I have picked up from the team). I really can’t recommend them highly enough. If you are in HK and are finding yourself losing the will to live at the end of week ten of online learning, or you are elsewhere in the world…..I can safely say that these songs and videos will be manna from heaven!
Euan Fitzpatrick, Director of Music, Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong
“It’s as though you are sprinkling gold dust across the country”
Margaret Griffiths, Sing Up Evaluator and ex HM Inspector for Music, 2008
Ex Cathedra
