Play recorder
Video collection
Devised and created alongside a team of recorder specialists, Sing Up's Play recorder resource comprises 3 original pieces, each with a 12-week unit of work for Year 3 and 4. All three pieces are suitable for classroom teaching with generalist and specialist music teachers, each with 3 differentiated playing parts for pupils. The lessons begin with children as absolute beginners – learning to hold the instrument; to make and control sounds; to play three notes on simple rhythms - adding notes and advancing to more complex rhythms as they progress.
On this page, we’ve collected all the resources you’ll need to run a lunchtime or after school recorder club – videos, pieces, print-able resources and inspiration. If you are planning to incorporate the recorder into your curriculum provision, you will find a 12-lesson unit of work on each piece's page as part of Sing Up Music.
Listen to the pieces
Play recorder was devised and created by:
Alison Walker, Emma Coulthard, Jill Kemp, and Miriam Monaghan,
alongside Shelly Ambury, Beth Millett and Jenny Lascelles of Sing Up.