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All things considered, I was quite liking this book until I left the CD running and on came track 5. Entitled ''Singling Safely'' it is guidance for doing just that and without wanting to sound too mean, it seemed liked Health and Safety gone mad. I mean, since when was singing, at a primary school level, a dangerous thing? All the books in the series have an extra angle like this, but the others are things like ''relaxing'', ''confidence'' and ''rhythm'' – an eclectic mix, but all things you might reasonably teach. The safety of singing, however, seems to do nothing more than put in something new for parents and teachers to worry about, needlessly, not least because it is endorsed by these singing professionals off the telly. Sigh. At that point I didn’t really know what to think.

Thanks go to the publishers for supplying this book.