*Excluding nativities and musicals
Reception,
Y1 & Y2
A fabulously useful song to sing as you tidy up the classroom, reminding everyone that if we all work together as a team, it will get done much more quickly!
An upbeat song that demands you start your day with a 'big happy noise'.
With verses exploring different emotions and an upbeat chorus full of actions, the children will love expressing their feelings through this song.
Y3 & Y4
A contagious, feel-good song tackling issues of self-acceptance and avoiding comparisons.
A simple melody and bags of atmosphere. A great way to start any day.
A great song that celebrates the joy of human capacity and good relationships.
Y5 & Y6
A song to promote plenty of thinking about the powerful effect our words can have, for good or otherwise!
A sobering but upbeat and affirmative song encouraging children to guard their ears, eyes, lips, minds and hearts: ‘Making sure I’m taking care of me’.
A catchy song with a valuable message: 'What a difference we can make, when we brighten someone’s day'.
R,
Y1 & Y2
A fabulously useful song to sing as you tidy up the classroom, reminding everyone that if we all work together as a team, it will get done much more quickly!
An upbeat song that demands you start your day with a 'big happy noise'.
With verses exploring different emotions and an upbeat chorus full of actions, the children will love expressing their feelings through this song.
Y3 & Y4
A contagious, feel-good song tackling issues of self-acceptance and avoiding comparisons.
A simple melody and bags of atmosphere. A great way to start any day.
A great song that celebrates the joy of human capacity and good relationships.
Y5 & Y6
A song to promote plenty of thinking about the powerful effect our words can have, for good or otherwise!
A sobering but upbeat and affirmative song encouraging children to guard their ears, eyes, lips, minds and hearts: ‘Making sure I’m taking care of me’.
A catchy song with a valuable message: 'What a difference we can make, when we brighten someone’s day'.
Sing along, do the actions and get brains in the right gear for a numeracy lesson with this catchy marching song.
A simple song counting from 1 to 10 and back again!
A lovely little song describing triangles, squares, rectangles, pentagons and hexagons.
Y1
A lively song with rhythmic actions, perfect as a warm-up for a numeracy lesson.
Counting even numbers up to 20. Simple but effective.
THE DOUBLING SONG
(I'M CLEVER!)
A clever song with actions to help understand the concept of doubling.
Y2
Counting in fives up to 100. Catchy and easy to remember.
A fantastic song for subtraction and number bonds to 10. Use fingers to help the children visualize the sums.
A simple fractions song about sharing cake with friends.
Y3
Learn all about measuring distance, weight, liquid and time with this catchy, upbeat little number!
Number bonds up to 10 take a trip to the seaside!
A quirky song dealing with the concept of estimation.
Y4
Practise positions and movement to music. A great song to get brains in the right gear for a numeracy lesson.
The five times table up to 100 – setting it to a musical rhythm makes it easy!
Learn about fractions while singing about sharing pizzas.
Y5
A fun, action-based rhythmic warm-up to get the brain in gear.
A great warm-up to help get your bodies and brains up to speed for a numeracy lesson.
This brain-teaser requires everyone’s full attention as they try to clap on different beats of the bar. Just what the brain needs to prepare for a maths lesson!
Y6
THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE PUT TOGETHER
Packed with actions and missing words, this warm-up will have the children in a tangle as they try to find their fronts, backs, bottoms and tops in time to the music.
The rhythmic equivalent to patting your head and rubbing your tummy. Get in the groove!
Get those stomps, claps, clicks, slaps and 'hey's in time and in the right place! A great fun round to get the body and brain warmed up!
A great starter for a phonics lesson. This song encourages children to develop sound awareness and discrimination.
A simple song dealing with segmenting and blending of letters. Easy to add your own words, especially as no rhyming is needed.
All about phonemes, this is a useful song for practising different letter sounds.
Y1
A great starter for a phonics lesson. This song encourages children to develop sound awareness and discrimination.
GIVE YOURSELF A P-A-T ON THE BACK
An easy segmenting/blending song. Plenty of scope for adding actions to reinforce rhythmic learning.
IT'S GREAT WHEN YOU KNOW THE ALPHABET
A brilliant song for learning the alphabet. Simple but very effective.
Y2
This is a fabulous song for embedding consonant digraphs.
Five digraphs have been used here but you can easily introduce others and invent your own lyrics.
Great for sparking imagination. Use it as a basis for writing a story or change the lyrics to create your own story in song.
Y3
With lyrics entirely consisting of sounds made from two consonants, this song is good fun and rhythmically challenging.
It’s all about verbs! A song to act out as you sing.
Ask the children to try to draw a bat and a cricket playing cricket to help them to remember their homographs! Chat about the difference between homographs and homophones.
Y4
A fabulously fun song packed full of lots of different sentence starters, adverbs and words to use instead of ‘said’. Abundantly useful for all types of creative writing – 'Get creative, let the sentences flow!'
Four really tricky spelling words learnt quickly in one song, through fun acronyms!
Hugely fun to sing, with amazing mileage for creative work. Use the provided template to create your own class verse(s).
Y5
Full of utter nonsense, this challenging tongue-twister is huge fun to sing. Try creating your own nonsense lyrics to fit.
Learn the song then personalize it with the included ‘write your own song’ template. Also has plenty of opportunity for performance and class evaluation.
A great song to begin to identify, construct and use similes and metaphors as part of descriptive writing.
Y6
Join Tarquin Tiger and Garth Gorilla for an energetic sing through lots of vowel and consonant sounds alongside a humorous, cumulative story.
Learn the song then personalize it with the included ‘write your own song’ template. Also has plenty of opportunity for performance and class evaluation.
A great song to begin to identify, construct and use similes and metaphors as part of descriptive writing.
A catchy little song that’s great to say ‘hello’ at the start of the day.
Make tidying up fun! Split the children into two teams, each with their own tidying job, and make it a race to see which team finishes first.
Round off the school day with this cheerful song! ‘We have had fun today, Now we must be on our way’.
Y1
A lively song to start the day and a good way to say hello at the same time.
A great marching song that will help your kids enjoy lining up quickly and efficiently.
A fabulously useful song to sing as you tidy up the classroom, reminding everyone that if we all work together as a team, it will get done much more quickly!
Y2
A lively song to start the day and a good way to say hello at the same time.
Signal lunchtime and get your kids excited about what they are going to eat!
Signal that it’s time to concentrate and create a focussed atmosphere in your class.
Y3
This simple song is equally at home in the classroom at register time as it is in assemblies.
A great marching song that will help your kids enjoy lining up quickly and efficiently.
A great song to use at the end of ‘free-play’ time or at the end of the day. Try combining the tidying with some sorting games: colour, shape, size, material, etc.
Y4
This simple song is equally at home in assemblies as it is in the classroom at register time.
This catchy song will have your class singing and toe-tapping as they tidy up ready for playtime, lunchtime or home time!
A positive and strident song to make saying goodbye easier – in Spanish, French, German and Italian! A song to be sung in two groups, suitable for any kind of goodbye e.g. the end of the day/week/term/Leavers’ assemblies.
Y5 & Y6
For any and every occasion: a light song with an appealing feel, on a ‘carpe diem’ theme. Suitable for all ages to enjoy.
Get your lunchtime staff involved with this Latin party-style song, guaranteed to induce hunger-pangs!
For a challenge this can be sung as a round, but can be sung ‘straight’ with younger children. Ideal for use at the end of any school day, with or without accompaniment.
This is a fun action song to get rid of lots of energy or to warm up with on a cold morning. See if the children can add their own verses.
A great song to calm the class down after a noisy activity! Get the children to sing this with their quiet, little voices and see who can be the quietest of all.
Y2
A lively action song that will be lots of fun to perform and sing. This song will be a challenge, hugely satisfying and great for a work-out.
A great song to calm the class down after a noisy activity! Get the children to sing this with their quiet, little voices and see who can be the quietest of all.
Y3 & Y4
An action song that gradually speeds up, building plenty of energy. Also good for exploring the various facets of human emotion. Especially suited to young voices, but fun for all to enjoy.
This useful warm-up explores different styles of singing, including using ‘my gentle voice’ and ‘my whispering voice’, as well as other contrasting styles. Discuss how each style changes the mood of the class.
Y5
Jam-packed with actions and missing words. This brain-teaser will have the children clapping, stamping, jumping, wriggling and nodding, but can they do it all in the right places?!
A beautiful song, perfect for instilling calm and a real sense of relaxation.
Y6
Build energy and focus with this fun tongue-twister that gets faster and faster!
A beautiful song, perfect for instilling calm and a real sense of relaxation.
A lively start to the day/week/project! Written for younger children, the lyrics suggest great actions to get everyone moving with short, staccato rhythms.
An upbeat song that demands you start your day with a 'big happy noise'.
With verses exploring different emotions and an upbeat chorus full of actions, the children will love expressing their feelings through this song.
Y3 & Y4
A contagious, feel-good song tackling issues of self-acceptance and avoiding comparisons.
A simple melody and bags of atmosphere. A great way to start any day.
A great song that celebrates the joy of human capacity and good relationships.
Y5 & Y6
A song to promote plenty of thinking about the powerful effect our words can have, for good or otherwise.
A sobering but upbeat and affirmative song encouraging children to guard their ears, eyes, lips, minds and hearts: ‘Making sure I’m taking care of me’.
A catchy song with a valuable message: 'What a difference we can make, when we brighten someone’s day'.
All about identifying everyday materials. Plenty of scope for extending this song into a guessing game.
A simple little song that’s ideal for introducing the topic of life cycles.
A charming song that addresses the importance of personal hygiene.
Y1
A song exploring waterproof and non-waterproof materials.
There’s a great ‘ice rescue’ activity to accompany this song, all about water in its different forms.
A simple, fun-to-sing song all about recycling different materials.
Y2
A fun and charming song all about the body, outside and inside!
A great song for teaching the five senses and the parts of the body responsible for each.
A fabulous little song to remind us how to mix different paints to create new colours!
Y3
This song deals with food chains and how different animals obtain their food from plants and other animals.
This is a fun song dealing with the important subject of recycling. Sung from the point of view of the litter!
A really fun-to-sing, three-part round celebrating harvest festival. .
Y4
A short, simple warm-up that’s also a great way to learn Italian music vocabulary!
WHERE ON EARTH IS MY PHILTRUM?
This a great fun song with some weird and wonderful facts about the body and the strange names for parts of it. Raise your phalanges if you know where your philtrum is!
An environmental anthem that helps us to remember all the ways we can work together to change our world for the better. ‘If we all do our little bit, it will add up to a lot’.
Y5
Music is so good at aiding recall. Try this fun song to learn the order of the planets!
An environmental anthem that helps us to remember all the ways we can work together to change our world for the better. ‘If we all do our little bit, it will add up to a lot’.
Two great explorers in one song! The children will love splitting into two teams to sing this song to compare and contrast Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus.
Y6
This really fun tongue-twister song takes a light-hearted look at healthy (and unhealthy) foods.
A hugely fun rap just bursting with facts about the fight for the throne in 1066!
A stupendous strategy-song to help build resilience and deal with bullying and hurtful words.
While we know that the most recent government guidelines state that singing in schools is allowed, we recognise that many schools still aren't feeling comfortable with this. As such, we have created Not Singing Yet? options that you can find in our most recent #candomusic blogs.
Within Universal Access there are handy eSongbooks set up specifically to help with your Not Singing Yet? options. The SingSign™ eSongbook contains 19 BSL signing videos taken from various song collections, and the All Videos eSongbook also contains choreography, action and craft videos to help you enjoy the songs in different ways.
A rich variety of songs to address key days and themes from each season.
Inspiring values-based assembly plans, perfect for collective worship with the whole school or individual classes.
Musical activities that help release the musical potential and possibilities contained within each song.
Fabulous creative arts ideas to inspire those creative juices!
A selection of signing videos are included.
Topic-based, mini bubble-friendly musicals, designed to support, consolidate and reinforce learning from key topics.
Incredibly inventive and catchy songs that embed key facts. Scripts that bring the topics alive and include parts for the whole class.
A whole host of curriculum-linked ideas to expand your teaching of the topic in a creative way.
Recorder and percussion parts for many of the songs.
A rich variety of songs to address key days and themes from each season.
Inspiring values-based assembly plans, perfect for collective worship with the whole school or individual classes.
Musical activities that help release the musical potential and possibilities contained within each song.
Fabulous creative arts ideas to inspire those creative juices!
A selection of signing videos are included.
Topic-based, mini bubble-friendly musicals, designed to support, consolidate and reinforce learning from key topics.
Incredibly inventive and catchy songs that embed key facts. Scripts that bring the topics alive and include parts for the whole class.
A whole host of curriculum-linked ideas to expand your teaching of the topic in a creative way.
Recorder and percussion parts for many of the songs.
Ideal for younger voices.
Incredibly catchy and easy to learn.
The perfect teaching tool for many of the core topics covered in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Covers key areas of PSHE.
Activity pages with teaching tips and fun ideas for every song.
Includes poetry-teaching ideas.
Perfect to help children to develop self-awareness, self-confidence and self-acceptance.
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