Choosing which songs will suit each age group.
This is entirely up to the discretion of the teacher/s – No one knows your students like you do.

Workshop the songs with each group.
a) Are the students happy with all the melodies as per the example? Would they prefer to change some or any of the melodies.
b)     Are they happy with the Lyrics? Would they like to add their own special touch by using some of their own ideas?

There are harmonies on the Vocal CD. It is entirely up to the individual teacher/s to experiment and have fun with harmonies. The Sky’s the Limit. Also a good opportunity for those who are good soloists to step up and take a few lead parts if appropriate.

For the artistic at heart, you can run a competition for the CD artwork for the front cover.  It will need to be correct shape of the CD cover and as a suggestion, to have the name of the school on it. The winning entry gets to have their artwork chosen for the school Fund Raising CD.

On completion of learning the songs, a sound recording engineer will come to the school to record the students singing along to the backing tracks. Hopefully the school will have a reasonable quiet room for this task to achieve the best results.

It is a good idea to get the ball rolling early with the parents, family and friends to get orders for the CD’s coming in to enable this project to work without incurring cost to the school or myself.  Production costs are very expensive for small amounts and so it is crucial that we have as many (and preferably over 100) orders as possible to get better rates for duplication. Once the orders have been placed however, that will be the definitive amount pressed so lots of promotion within the school is suggested.