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

Enchanted forest
Enchanted forest
Enter a magical environment that will stimulate the creative imagination. Introducing the notes B A G.
Monsters, monsters!
Monsters, monsters!
Embark on a ‘dream quest’ to defeat the monsters under the bed. Introducing the notes C, high D and low E.
Earthlight
Earthlight
Take off on a voyage through space with only the Earthlight to guide us home. Introducing the notes low D, F# and C#.

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.

Illustrations - Ella Watson
Video capture - Max Bandicoot
Video editing - William Howarth

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