Songs and music are powerful tools for learning and revising core concepts. Our classroom songbooks put that power in your hands! Using a song in history to remember dates, or in numeracy to help remember number bonds, can be a powerful tool for a teacher, and a really easy way to accommodate pupils learning styles while everyone has fun together!
Come with us on this exciting journey all the way to Mount Fuji as we learn about all things volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and more! May contain dangerously catchy songs, a vibrant volcano dance and a Richter-Scale Rock!
Antarctica
We’ve got biologists, we’ve got expedition guides, we’ve got tourists and even penguins! Get to know this educational, informational adventure of a story told through a short script and punchy songs (including a rocky Rockhopper penguin finale!).
More and more research is coming through regarding cognitive load, and the recognition that music and singing are tools that can really help focus and improve children’s memory for information. Singing cuts through distraction and highlights the important details and if learning is fun, children engage, and if they engage – they’ll remember. In 2017 Out of the Ark worked with professor Susan Hallam MBE to look at how songs can, among other things, improve attainment in the classroom. You can you can read more about the project here.
INSPIRATION
An Introduction to British Sign Language with Natalie Davies
At Out of the Ark we firmly believe that singing should be inclusive and accessible to all, and so we are proud to have recently added lots of new signing videos to our song catalogue. Here, our new British Sign Language interpreter Natalie Davies gives us an introduction to BSL, tells us how she got involved in it and why it is useful in schools.
Our Favourite Children’s Books
We are bonkers about books here at Out of the Ark – picture books, non-fiction books, big books, small books, songbooks – the whole lot! Get to know a few of our team members and discover their favourite children’s books.
Spotlight on: That's What I Call A Class Assembly! Series
The That’s What I Call A Class Assembly! series for ages 5–11 has been specially designed for classroom teachers as a teaching aid to support, consolidate and reinforce learning in key topics. These books really do bring the curriculum to life!
