Big Sing for Mini Singers 2025: Get Down With The Animals
Engaging. Inspiring. Can something be *too* fun?
Are you ready to go on an adventure? With songs chosen especially to suit younger children of all abilities, we’ll travel the world to discover amazing creatures living in very different habitats. From Ghana to the Caribbean, Australia to the Arctic, we’ll learn three very important words which help the animals survive and thrive: Adaptation, hibernation, migration.
Don’t worry, you don’t need to be an experienced singing leader to take part. The Mini Sing’s flexibility means you can learn whole songs or just the chorus, love hearing those voices either way. Together you’ll have fun, improve health, and with any luck, inspire a life-long love of music (no pressure).
Teacher training is provided by a professional vocalist and teaching resources include wonderful videos and curriculum ideas that will help you make the most of them back in the classroom.
This will be big hit with your mini singers and an excellent way to end the academic year.
Big Sing for Mini Singers 2025: Get Down With The Animals includes…
May-July – Big Sing for Mini Singers Resources Access
Via our specially created online platform. Includes audio tracks, teaching videos, lyrics and curriculum links.
Thursday 8 May – Teacher Training
Choice of 1.30pm In-Person at The Glasshouse (2 hours)
Or 4pm Online condensed session via Zoom (1 hour)
Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 July – Celebration Days
Choice of 10.30am or 1pm performance (60minutes), singing together in The Glasshouse’s warm and welcoming Sage Two, with a live professional band.
Suitable for:
Foundation & KS1
Group size at performance* and price:
£105 for up to 15 people. (max 5 additional people at £5.50 per head)
£200 for up to 35 people. (max 8 additional people at £5.50 per head)
£350 for up to 70 people. (max 8 additional people at £5.50 per head)
*Total number to include both students and staff.
For groups significantly larger than stated above, please contact us directly for a price schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org
KS2&3 feeling left out? Check out this year’s Big Sing.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
ENROLMENT CLOSES: Friday 4 April 2025
Submission of this form is not a confirmation of your booking.
Enrolment requests can come in quickly, and sometimes we can’t update our forms fast enough. We’ll be in touch as soon as we can to let you know if your requested day & time was successful.
If your request is successful:
Booking confirmation:
You will receive an email confirmation of your enrolment request within 14 days of submitting your form. This will secure your spaces on the project.
If you do not hear from us in the first 14 days, please get in touch schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org to ensure nothing has got lost.
Booking Order Confirmations from our Box Office Team will be processed and sent out via email from January 2025 onwards.
Invoicing for the project will aim to take place between Monday 7 April and Thursday 1 May 2025.
Cancellation:
Please inform us in writing at schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org as soon as you can if you wish to cancel your booking request.
Cancellation charges:
Cancellation charges will apply from Thursday 8 May 2025 onwards (Teacher Training Day).
0% on or before Wednesday 7 May 2025, 50% on or before Friday 30 May 2025, 100% thereafter.
Changes to bookings:
If you need to amend your enrolment numbers or details between submitting your enrolment form and the enrolment closing date, Friday 4 April, please get in touch as soon as possible.
Once the project has begun, small changes can be made to your booking by emailing schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org . Significant changes (other than cancellation), which may reduce your fee or greatly increase the number of seats you require, will be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
Plan your trip:
There’s more than one way to get to us. Plan your journey.
What do teachers say?
“Training calmed nerves, gave good ideas from the ‘basics’ to the more adventurous and I felt confident enough to have a go knowing the videos were there too”
“Really easy to follow the online resources.”
“The show was absolutely wonderful. The band, the singers, the staging… absolutely fabulous. It was the highlight of our year.”
“It has made our children very enthusiastic about singing.”
Want to know the Top 3 words used to describe the Big Sing for Mini Singers?
‘Fun, Engaging, Inspiring’
Oh and ‘Inclusive, Rewarding, Exciting, Well-Pitched, Well-Organised, Memorable…’ you get the idea.
The Big Sing and Big Sing for Mini Singers is supported by The Kavli Trust. The Big Sing programme brings the joy of singing to more than 3,000 children in schools across the North East and Cumbria region, culminating in a series of inspirational concerts at The Glasshouse. The Kavli Trust, which owns Norway’s Kavli group, produces the well-known Kavli and Primula spreadable cheeses and Q-Meieriene dairy products as well as other food products in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the UK have worked with The Glasshouse since 2014, supporting culture.