I read this thread while our choir practised outside my classroom (British Junior School, children aged 8 to 10), singing a variety of music, some of it well. We have curriculum pressure problems, though, and a culture difficulty. most of our children reach a certain age and then decide that they don't sing. If I could get my class singing ANYTHING, folk, bowdlerised folk, or the very good input from the BBC, I would carol it from the roof tops. As it is, I am used to the little dears looking at me very peculiarly when I do sing myself, because they just aren't used to singing. (I am told that my voice isn't bad, so it's not that I'm caterwauling.) Singing isn't cool.

Penny