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A fun, three-part round where each part addresses a different aspect of a healthy lifestyle – diet, exercise and rest – incorporating amusing rhymes and a memorable melody. Helpful as an introduction to the topic, this song will give you a useful framework for developing the theme much further.
An energetic, joyful celebration of Christmas around the world – from deserts to mountains and fields to high-rise towers, everyone is making music to celebrate.
A beautiful arrangement of a carol that hardly needs any introduction. It has been widely sung across the English-speaking world since the end of the nineteenth century and is often sung by children.
A lovely, lively song for a positive start to the New Year (September or January). This is especially useful for welcoming newcomers – children or teachers. An infectious song of affirmation and encouragement for everyone to enjoy.
An ideal song to use whilst focusing on World Environment Day. This compact song will encourage tidiness at school whilst being great fun to sing. With its quirky melodic line and gathering tempo, children will pick it up in no time – along with the litter, hopefully!
A song of celebration and thanks for the world around us; the wonder of creation 'from the crocodiles and kangaroos to the birds and bumblebees'; and the beauty of it all.
This is summer in a song! With jaunty, syncopated rhythms and a carefree yet animated feel, it's guaranteed to get everyone into that 'blue skies' mood.
Musical Style: Jazzy
Age: 5-11
Subject: Summer; Weather
Vocal Range: Medium (D#-C#) with further reaching harmonies
This is the second song from the mini-musical The Princess and the Pea – one of our Song and Story books. It is a stormy weather report full of percussion opportunities for younger children and a great song to use as part of a weather project.
Fun, questionning lyrics with a satisfying ending when the rhyming word is found. Excellent for introducing young children to rhyming words and ideal for celebrating World Poetry Day.
Celebrate Lewis Carroll's birthday with this crazy, energetic song from Alice the Musical. Introducing three different melodies which all come together in a thrilling 3-part finale – where everyone is a winner – this song's challenging, quite mad, but great fun!
A powerful song that helps us embrace change and the ever-growing nature of life. Whilst remembering the good times, the people we love and the lessons learnt along the way, we are reminded that there’s a time for everything and now is a time to change and grow.
An overview of the real story of Christmas told with an almost word-for-word descriptive Biblical narrative, but given a great contemporary musical lilt. Strong use of rhyme in this song makes lyric-learning easy, and the chorus will have everyone joining in!
A great opening song for any Christmas celebration. This rocky number is full of bounce and energy and conveys all the excitement of traditional Christmas festivities.
An upbeat song with a driving melody that focuses on being ourselves and gaining confidence from our true individuality and uniqueness... 'There's no one who's quite like me!'
This song easily conjures up the wartime ‘keep calm and carry on’ feel, with its marching beat and its no-nonsense lyrics. Ideal for use during World War II topic work or any wartime project.
This hilarious concoction of healthy fruit and veg, mixed with not-so-healthy food, is quite a tongue-twister! It's a challenge to sing, but guaranteed to be a lot of fun to perform!
Thankful for the year that’s passed and looking forward to happy holidays, End Of Year Blessing will bring warmth to your heart and perhaps the odd tear to a few eyes. Linking arms and swaying to celebrate the friendship that a year together at school brings, this is a great song for an end-of-year assembly.
An anthemic song that encourages determination, ambition and inspiration to succeed, teaching us that with a little patience, willpower and hard work we can all reach our goals in life.
All children love to talk about their families – and now they can sing about them too! A fun song, in Caribbean style, to tie in with International Day of Families
Wonderfully celebratory in nature and beautifully catchy, this rousing song from one of our That’s What I Call a Class Assembly publications is just perfect for celebrating the work of Florence Nightingale.
An unhurried look back on memories of good times had, and an affirmation of friendship, this song is perfect for an end-of-year assembly/performance. It could also be used to celebrate International Friendship Day, which falls at the end of the school year. (Taken from Out of the Ark's popular musical Wind In The Willows.)
This is a lovely, forward-looking ballad for the end of the school year. Teachers and pupils sing verse 1, and leavers sing verses 2 and 3, all sharing a warm and heart-felt message of enduring friendship.
Musical Style: Pop ballad
Age: 5-11
Subject: PSHE; Friendship; Leavers
Vocal Range: Medium (C-C)
Key: F
Musical Elements: Time signature changes; Syncopation
A really fun song to sing and a good opportunity to address the issue of everybody’s hectic morning schedule, as well as the importance of punctuality.
Soak up some simple scientific facts about water effortlessly with this incredibly infectious, light-hearted song. It'll give any science project on water/life a splash of fun.
A vital lesson for young children about the importance of exercise. A simple and repetitive song that runs along easily, with only one lyric change for each verse.
Ideal for use at the beginning and end of a school day or music lesson, this song is about getting together with classmates, friends and family, enjoying their company and then separating from them. It can help children to see that it is polite and friendly to say ‘Hello’ when meeting someone and ‘Goodbye’ when parting company.
This is a fantastic song to use in P.E. The children make a circle and, taking it in turns, one child runs into the middle of the circle at the beginning of each verse and makes up an action (e.g. jumping, hopping, spinning etc.) The other children sing and then copy the action during the music between the verses.
An upbeat Latin-style celebration of the holidays! With its quick chorus and scope for percussion playing, the children will love the energy of this song and will enjoy bringing the verse and chorus together at the end for some lovely part-singing.
A gentle song that focuses on the many and varied places inhabited by animals and humans. From the deserts to the sea, the ice caps to the jungle and even our own back yard, the chorus sums it all up when it says, ‘We all need a place we can call home’.
The Olympics is underpinned by three values – friendship, respect and excellence, along with four values of the Paralympics – determination, inspiration, courage and equality. These principles are fantastic to apply to our lives, not just for the next summer Olympic Games hosted in Rio de Janeiro, but all year round!
The flicker of a candle flame introduces us to the magic of the Christingle. With enchanting and reflective melodies, and some lovely optional harmonies in the chorus, this beautiful song explains the significance of each element of the Christingle and is a charming addition to any Christmas service or performance.
Musical Style: A positive and reflective ballad
Age: 5-11
Subject: Christmas; RE
Vocal Range: Medium (C-C) - harmony line goes up to an E
A song that explores all the different ways of travelling to school. Great for project work on transport or to use on walk- or bike-to-school weeks and other special events.
This nonsense song is full of silly suggestions on how to get around and offers a great introduction to some unlikely methods of transport and some exciting destinations.
This is an invaluable resource for any teacher, music-specialist or otherwise. A beautiful poem with a magical backing track of other-worldly sounds that will mesmerise children and open the door to all sorts of questions and ideas about sounds, noise, words and much, much more, giving masses of scope for further literacy, music and topic work.
As songs go, they don't come much shorter or simpler than this, but my goodness, you can make such an impression with it. It's a song of unity and coming together, building momentum along the way. Sincere, uplifting and great for morning assembly. Or even better – why not give our Singing Challenge a go?
Musical Style: Unruffled, then expanding.
Age: 5-11
Subject: PSHE
Vocal Range: Medium (B-C#)
Key: E-F-F#
Musical Elements: Option to begin with solo, then trio, then all.
A super celebration of books that will have you singing all the way to the library. With a groovy bongo beat this is an incredibly catchy song, ideal for celebrating the wonderful world of words.
Great fun to sing, this song (to be sung as a round) covers all types of tea, beans, breads, pies and jams that can be found in the shops and offers a fantastically fun, tongue-twisting challenge!
Promoting self-worth, self-respect and a healthy sense of personal value, this happy-go-lucky song makes no apology for being ourselves. Scope for a descant part is included towards the end of the song.
Inspired by a Zimbabwean proverb, this upbeat, lively song promotes a positive outlook and encourages a 'have-a-go' attitude to singing, dancing and living.
The three primary colours are the stars of this song as they mix together to make new ones. A fantastic tool to help remember colour-blend combinations.
A simple song for younger children with great scope for fun actions. Easy to pick up, children will love singing this just for fun or as part of a minibeast topic.
Very short and snappy, this is an easy tune with fun, cheeky rhymes, that's bound to go down well with younger children. Why not take us up on our singing challenge 'Keep Your Legs Off The Ground' with this song and send us some pictures of all the fun you've had?
A fabulously feel-good song that celebrates the wonder of life and all that a new day can bring. Guaranteed to lift everyone’s spirits and perfect for singing all year round, this song is sure to become a staple favourite in your singing repertoire.
A foody fiesta that will get the juices flowing before lunchime, with tasty rhymes and a Latin feel. A passage of two-part singing adds extra fun in the final verse.
A dreamy, floaty song about watching the shapes clouds make in the sky. Perfect for exploring further with literacy and art projects focusing on imagination and fantasy.
A bright and cheerful song that marks the arrival of spring and celebrates the May Day festival. Have fun creating some dances to perform as you sing, or if you’re lucky enough to have one, perform your maypole dance to the song.
A pretty song telling the Christmas story and how we remember it each year. Useful for any Christmas assembly, Christingle service or an opening for a Christmas show.
This is the opening song from Niki Davies' mini-musical, Chicken Licken - one of our Song & Story books. A simple but infectious little ditty, ideal for a sing if you're reading this story in class.
This music-making song is cleverly written so that the children don’t have to sing and play at the same time. Great for teaching them the vital musical skill of playing/singing at the correct time on the correct beats – and keeping silent at the right time too!
Summertime in a song, this pretty ditty happily bounces along in preparation for the tasty picnic to come. Ideal for younger voices and perfect for experimenting with adding your own picnic lyrics.
With a melody that weaves up and down, just like a caterpillar, this pretty song will perfectly complement any project work on minibeasts or the life cycle of butterflies. Ideal for younger voices and from our best-selling collection My World: Minibeasts.
This brief but stunning poem comes from our beautiful collection Picture, Poems & Percussion 2. Each of its six lines contains a strong visual, kinaesthetic and sonic image, affording numerous opportunities for developing ideas across the curriculum.
Mark and Helen Johnson, teamed with Andy Harsant, have done it again writing a funky, body-shaker of a song that will really help you ‘smile the blues away’ and get into the mood for Red Nose Day 2017. The song’s rap includes lots of creative ideas on how to fundraise and the energetic chorus will get everyone enthusiastic about ‘doing something funny for the money’.
Musical Style: Funky Electronica
Age: 5-11
Subject: Fundraising; Comedy; World Awareness
Vocal Range: Medium (B-C)
Key: Cm
Musical Elements: Options for group singing with call and response; rap solos.
Mark and Helen Johnson, teamed with Andy Harsant, have done it again writing a funky, body-shaker of a song that will really help you ‘smile the blues away’ and get into the mood for Red Nose Day 2019. The song’s rap includes lots of creative ideas on how to fundraise and the energetic chorus will get everyone enthusiastic about ‘doing something funny for the money’.
Musical Style: Funky Electronica
Age: 5-11
Subject: Fundraising; Comedy; World Awareness
Vocal Range: Medium (B-C)
Key: Cm
Musical Elements: Options for group singing with call and response; rap solos.
With a positive, ‘marching-band’ style – and a wartime musical flavour – this song promotes a ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ attitude and is the perfect song with which to celebrate ‘World Smile Month®’.
This is a fantastically silly song that will fire up the children’s imaginations! Ideal for singing throughout the year, but especially on Global Belly Laugh Day!
An ideal song to accompany any environmental project. Learn how to sort out all your junk in a responsible fashion with this funky number, which lists all sorts of 'rubbish' that someone will always find a use for... 'Recycle it, recycle it - somebody might make use of it!'
Come and meet this humble piece of litter with big ambitions! A very catchy song listing many of the things that can be made from rubbish. A song to get you swinging your way to the recycle bin!
This is a high energy, funky action worship song inviting everyone to join in the Christmas celebrations. Ideal to open or close any festive performance.
Musical Style: Lively funk
Age: 5-11
Subject: Christmas
Vocal Range: Medium (D-D)
Key: F
Musical Elements: Syncopation; scope to add choreography in instrumental verse
A beautiful and thought-provoking song about friendship. Starting with a solo, voices are gradually added through each verse until the whole choir is singing, illustrating the song’s theme perfectly. Includes an optional harmony line.
A joyful song of celebration for the Easter term which is suitable for church or school. Relaying the Easter story, the melody, music and message are all equally positive here. 'Tell everyone that the Lord has risen!'
Evocative lyrics and a reflective melody give this song an enchanting feel. Ideal for those magical snow-covered days and useful for many kinds of creative work, it’s the perfect snow song!
A charmingly simple song celebrating this beautiful little winter jewel. Sing it in class just for the joy of it, or use it as part of a naturethemed project or assembly.
A thoughtful look at the world's injustices. Sorrowful, yet beautiful, this song brings awareness, gives hope and offers a lesson in compassion. Useful in difficult times, when music can often deliver something much more profound than words alone.
Highlighting the joy of singing and all the benefits it can bring, this song is one you’ll sing time and time again. Surely an ideal choice for our Song Calendar, it’s a truly upbeat, timeless Out of the Ark classic where ‘catchy’ is an understatement!
This poem by Ann Bryant is an amazing exploration of words and the 'sounds' they make. A rhythmical poem and a thrilling succession of percussive sounds. Written with scope to be used with percussion, and visually stimulating pictures, this piece of work gives you plenty of opportunities for music-making.
A song about space that can be used as an ideal starting block for work on this topic, encouraging children to think about the magnitude and scope of such a place, and giving opportunities to stretch their imagination towards other worlds and what they might offer.
Sure to provoke a few squeals and trembles, this is a simply constructed song which will nevertheless cause quite a stir. Calling all arachnid-lovers… it's your time to shine, this Save A Spider Day!
Boogie your way into the spring term with this swinging song. It's hugely fun to sing and will brighten up the months after Christmas when we can sense the approach of the new season. Spring Fever is infectious!
Suitable for the whole spring season, the slow verses are contrasted brilliantly with a very lively chorus full of the joys of spring. Includes optional lines of harmony in the last chorus.
Musical Style: Upbeat jazz swing (with slow intro)
Age: 5-11
Subject: Spring; Easter
Vocal Range: Large (A-D)
Key: G
Musical Elements: Optional harmony lines in the last chorus
A short and sweet treat to celebrate the arrival of spring. With jaunty rhythms and sparkling, engaging lyrics, this hugely uplifting song is suitable for younger children but will definitely be enjoyed by the whole school too.
This fabulously infectious song is perfect to inspire schools to do themselves proud for Sport Relief whilst raising money to change lives! With it’s contagious feel, it will bring everyone together and get them raring to go, and is guaranteed to create a lot of fun and laughter. Ideal for assemblies but likely to be sung everywhere!
This clever song demonstrates how one basic melody can be adapted to five very different musical styles, (samba, swing, waltz, tango, and Israeli) with minimal lyric changes. It’s actually a good deal easier than it sounds and lends itself very well to some varied and energetic dancing. Hugely rewarding with just a little work.
Easy and breezy, this song offers an alternative to the frantic, frenzied pace of modern life. A great opportunity to learn that not everything needs to be done quickly… 'slow things down and start to have fun.'
An up-beat prayer of gratitude for all the blessings in our lives such as our homes, friends, food and for God’s love. A great song to use in assembly and guaranteed to get the day off to a positive start.
This is the opening song from the mini-musical Goldilocks and the Three Bears – one of our Song and Story books. It introduces the three fuzzy protagonists in a simple, jazzy style with slightly sinister overtones.
Musical Style: With a slice of cool!
Age: 3-6
Subject: Literacy
Vocal Range: Small (D-A)
Key: D min
Musical Elements: Finger clicks and percussion opportunities
A gentle walk in the country is full of surprises!! Children will relish the 'whiffles', 'pongs', 'squelches' and 'splats' in this humorous, yet wholesome song.
Musical Style: A lilting intro leading to full big-band, boogie-woogie
Age: 5-11
Subject: Animals; Science
Vocal Range: Medium (C-C)
Key: Bb
Musical Elements: Tempo changes; Syncopation; Fermata
Meet Mark the Shark and his friends in this jazzy song about what lurks beneath the deep blue sea. Ideal for complementing any projects on sea-life, oceans or water in general.
A mysterious introduction leads into a riotous verse full of ideas for fantastic doodles. This song will inspire even the most artistically challenged to create a masterpiece and the children will love the triumphant ‘TA-DA’ at the end!
Musical Style: Dramatic
Age: 3-7
Subject: Art & Design
Vocal Range: Medium (C-C)
Key: C
Musical Elements: Tempo change; minor/major keys; chromatic singing
A catchy, simple song that's a great way of teaching younger children about doubling, using hands as props. Singing this is such an easy way to embed the 2x table and celebrate World Maths Day at the same time!
With its lilting verse and stomping chorus, The Elephant Dance is full of interesting facts and features about these remarkable animals. This waltz-time feel is perfect for some music and movement, especially in the chorus where the children can really stomp around.
Musical Style: Steadily plodding
Age: 3-7
Subject: Animals; Music & Movement
Vocal Range: Medium (B-B)
Key: G
Musical Elements: Different moods generated from legato and staccato sections
A simple chorus to learn for the whole class, with opportunities for some confident volunteers to rap the verses. A good exercise in aural concentration and once listened to a few times they will soon pick up the rhythms of the rap.
The Golden Rule is an up-beat song championing the fact that, through all our differences, we should stop and think before judging others and should treat others as we’d like them to treat us.
Musical Style: Pop
Age: 5-11
Subject: PSHE & Citizenship
Vocal Range: Large (B-C)
Key: E-F
Musical Elements: Syncopation; melodic echoes; optional harmony part
A moving song highlighting the suffering of others and promoting the message that we can ‘work together in this world we share’ to help those not so fortunate as ourselves. Ideal to sing at harvest time, on World Hunger Day and on other aid-awareness days throughout the year.
This song, from our popular musical Eddie The Penguin Saves The World, is simple to learn and shows the plight of all playful penguins faced with the fact that their polar ice caps are in danger.
Explaining all the elements required to grow cress, this song is the ideal accompaniment to any project work on spring, new life, gardening or indeed cress! Especially suited to younger children.
Musical Style: A simple habenera, with a little cha, cha, cha thrown in
A beautiful ballad that the children will love to sing, all about the wonderful awakening of spring, with its brighter colours, fragrances upon the breeze, warmth of the sun and birds singing. Very atmospheric, with lovely optional harmonies.
A fun song – and easy to pick up – but with a message to challenge us all! It promotes plenty of thinking about how we speak and the powerful effect our words can have, for good or otherwise.
An optimistic, appealing song for use on any and every occasion. Urges us to make the most of every day and use the opportunities we are given to learn and grow, as well as be thankful for all the little things.
This reflective song deals with the subject of remembrance and those men and women who have fought for our country. Perfect for a class or school assembly for the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, remembering those who lost their lives. "We celebrate your service, pay tribute to your lives, this day is to honour what you’ve done."
Musical Style: Ballad
Age: 5-11
Subject: History; PSHE & Citizenship
Vocal Range: Large (Bb-C)
Key: Bb
Musical Elements: Tied rhythms, syncopation, 3/4 time signature
Cheerio, off we go' … so begins this charming little song which introduces The Three Little Pigs at the beginning of their journey into the big, wide world. A great song to use when reading this much-loved tale, or even better, use the complete Song & Story book and make a production of the whole thing.
Musical Style: Bright
Age: 3-6
Subject: Literacy; Storytelling; Fairytales; Drama
A very simple song taken from our musical Eddie The Penguin Saves The World, which is full of environmental issues including the damage caused to the planet by deforestation. An excellent lesson on the importance of trees – ‘If we didn’t have them, what would we do?’
A great song to use in the playground at break, in a PE lesson or even as part of a skipping workshop. Easy to learn and there’s scope for you to include several children’s names.
Celebrate European Day of Languages with this super song from our French collection, 'Tous Les Jours'. Easy to pick up, you'll be counting in French in no time.
An energetic start to the new day with lots of scope for fun actions. This crisp and fresh song looks forward to the day with optimism. Especially suitable for younger children.
Musical Style: A bright, bouncy swing
Age: 3-11
Subject: PSHE & Citizenship; PE
Vocal Range: Medium (B-B)
Key: D
Musical Elements: Crisp rhythms with staccato and syncopation
A great advertisement for walking to school, highlighting how much there is to see and hear along the way whilst giving us a free exercise session and a cleaner planet. With its infectiously catchy tune, you'll be singing this every day as you walk to school!
An upbeat, rocky song that recognizes the friendship and confide nce that builds through school life and celebrates the shared journey. Ideal for use as a leavers’ song.
An inclusive, 'feel good' song celebrating coming together - especially suited to morning assemblies. For added fun, a simple second-part is built into the chorus.
This supremely positive and fun song has a useful focus on belonging, getting along and having a smiley attitude! It's a simple, but strong song – great for the start of any new week, term or year.
Mark and Helen Johnson have come up with another really fun, catchy and energetic song, perfect for getting you and your school on board with the Red Nose Day event. Ideal for use as a fundraising tool with plenty of creative ideas in the lyrics alone, the song also helps us focus on what the day’s all about.
This song of remembrance helps the very young to begin to understand why we wear a poppy – to remember all those who fought to keep us safe. Ideal for Early Years and KS1 but also highly usable for the whole primary age group.
The ‘congratulations’ track. Written to celebrate any kind of success, effort or achievement. Two versions of the lyrics to this song are supplied – one to acknowledge competitive success and the other to congratulate individual or team achievement/effort. A fast, fun song!
Take a fascinating look at some of the amazing things that came out of the Victorian era – buildings, inventions, writings, medicine, exploration, policing – in this stately number from one of our That's What I Call a Class Assembly publications. Very versatile and full of inspiring ideas and suggestions. No KS2 teacher should be without it!
Musical Style: Stately and patriotic
Age: 7-11
Subject: The Victorians; History
Vocal Range: Medium (C-C)
Key: C
Musical Elements: Additional parts for descant recorder
A silly song just for fun which paints a picture of an incredible topsy-turvy land! Good to accompany literacy work on nonsense rhymes – by Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, etc.
A charmingly simple song explaining why pigs and other animals would be unsuitable as pets. With a slight country feel and a typically catchy melody from Niki Davies, this is one the children will pick up quickly.