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Advocating for singing in the drama classroom

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Singing with full classrooms across the country, Emily Garsin from Starling Arts advocates for the use of vocal chords in creating engaging wellbeing sessions for your students.
An official Wicked Singing for Wellbeing session
An official Wicked Singing for Wellbeing session

Group singing is good for us. At Starling Arts we're keen to share singing's health and wellbeing benefits far and wide! Unlike a school choir where the focus is on how it sounds, our holistic Singing for Wellbeing sessions – which include the official Wicked Singing for Wellbeing sessions – are about how singing makes us feel. This subtle shift is all important in creating safe, engaging and transformative Singing for Wellbeing sessions.

With the current pressures of school life and exams, combined with the external social anxieties of a generation who are always online, singing offers pupils a screen-free, scientifically proven mood-boosting activity that requires complete presence without goal-orientated pressures.

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