This is a structured guide to teaching children how to sing correctly. Based on the principles of White's Technique, it is a simple but highly effective programme for teaching the basic skills of voice production in a classroom setting or in private practice. It can be used as a stand-alone scheme or incorporated into other schemes such as the Kodaly Method.

Devised by a primary teacher with more than forty years experience of classroom teaching, the scheme is based on incremental learning principles with informal assessment carried out by the pupils' own teacher. It provides full instructions to enable teachers and choir trainers to deliver the programme with confidence. It is child-friendly and does not require any specialised knowledge on the part of the teacher.

The scheme offers incentives to pupils in the form of bronze, silver and gold medals as they progress through three levels. Success at each level guarantees that pupils as well as teachers enjoy a sense of enjoyment and achievement; and this in turn ensures that classroom singing attains new levels of proficiency.

Participation in the Medal Scheme is subject to the following conditions:

How to apply:

1. Contact the secretary of the EGWS for permission to implement the scheme and details of membership of the Society.
2. Non-registered teachers will then receive details of how to complete the online questionnaire.
3. On payment of the appropriate fee, the applicant will receive a copy of the medal scheme.

Please note

• Teacher (not the Society) assesses the pupils' on-going progress and decides on their suitability to receive an award.
• Medals must be ordered through the Society and may take up to four or five weeks to deliver.