Norristhorpe Junior & Infant School

Congratulations! Your Silver Sing Up Award has been endorsed by Awards Executive and you've achieved your Silver Award! 

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Awards Executive gave the following feedback:

To all staff and pupils at Norristhorpe Junior and Infant School, I am delighted to endorse your Silver Sing Up Award, and heartily congratulate the staff and students on this achievement! There is a palpable sense of joy demonstrated throughout your evidence, which made your submission a real pleasure to endorse. Your evidence consistently demonstrates some very hard work and a commitment to singing across the school. You have met the criteria for each award and have achieved your plan. It is clear that your Awards Champion, Gareth Luby, has worked hard to encourage and support you all in your journey to becoming a singing school. You have developed an impressive singing action plan, and have provided some lovely evidence demonstrating good-quality and very enthusiastic singing across all ages, in and out of the classroom. I particularly enjoyed the 'Say Amen' performance - the children clearly love singing it, and what a brilliant way to familiarise them with musical terms. You are clearly here starting to consider the quality of your singing. I was hugely impressed by the efforts you have made to get all pupils and staff 'on board' with your Silver Award, including some excellent staff training - and it was lovely to see the signed Pledge certificate! It's also brilliant to see that all members of the school community are involved in singing, from your SEN groups to the staff choir. It was great to see that singing is reflected in your school development plan. To enable you to keep moving forwards, perhaps in preparation for your Gold Sing Up award, I would now encourage you to: 1) Develop further opportunities for and capture evidence of children leading singing and taking ownership of their singing. 2) Aim to capture more varied evidence of how singing supports topic and curriculum work in class across the school. 3) Further develop the initiative of the singing in the playground. This is a lovely idea and it would be good to see how this progresses. 4) Capture further evidence of SMT actively participating and being involved in singing, perhaps leading assemblies. 5) Develop and create further opportunities for sharing your singing. Perhaps you could organize a collaborative event with other local schools, or a singing workshop day for a class or year group where parents and visitors are invited. 6) Capture evidence to demonstrate a wide and varied repertoire, including songs from around the world. You could invite children and parents in to classes to teach songs in home languages. Also check out the Sing Up website for further resources and ideas. Many congratulation on achieving your Silver Sing Up Award, and I wish you every success with your singing in the future!

Emily Godfree - Sing Up Awards Endorser