We’re very excited to launch a new seasonal addition to our best-selling Songs for EVERY Series, Songs For EVERY Summer Assembly.
Mark, Helen and Naomi Johnson have written 15 summer must-haves, packed with life, colour and variety. There’s no shortage of joyful songs to explore all the wow and wonder of this glorious season of sunshine, with themes including celebration, nature, moving on, healthy living – and even getting sweaty!
The summer term is full of reasons to sing – appreciating the long, hot summer days, discovering the fantastic array of summer wildlife and calming those pre-SATs nerves.
The possibilities within each song are limitless, but we've given a helping hand and added in some fun music activities, plenty of ideas to use the songs to support classroom learning, plus 15 assembly plans to guide you through your summer-term assembly planning.
"An enjoyable, accessible, vibrant collection, curated for the summer months. As well as its obvious relevance to assembly singing, it is packed full of suggestions for how the songs could be taught in more detail in class, supporting the national curriculum, and used as a springboard for creative activities, both in music lessons and in the wider curriculum" – Daniel Sumner, Totley All Saints C of E Primary School
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About The Songs For EVERY series
Songs of life, songs of colour, songs to make you smile!
The Songs For EVERY Series was created by Out of the Ark Music co-founders and songwriters Mark & Helen Johnson. They have recently been joined by Naomi Johnson who has played a significant part in the creation of our two newest seasonal songbooks within the Songs for EVERY Series.
The songs within this iconic collection have provided enjoyment and inspiration since the first one was launched in 1991.
These tried-and-tested, and much-loved songs are full of life, colour and goodness, and continue to have a hugely positive impact upon countless schools and children everywhere.
Each songbook includes fifteen songs and a feast of original and exciting music activities for you to use alongside them. The two new seasonal songbooks also include fifteen assembly plans, clearly laid out for you to deliver fun, thought-provoking and inspirational assemblies. We want to help you to grab hold of EVERY possibility contained within each and EVERY song and enjoy the opportunities they bring.
All of the titles in the Songs For EVERY Series are available with Words on Screen™ allowing you to display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays, making them easy to teach and easy to learn!

Licence Information
Words on Screen™ Licence Information – What You Need To Know
- All of our eSongbooks are supplied with a single user licence which allows the Words on Screen™ software to be installed on ONE computer only, or be streamed by a single user.
- If you would like to install our software onto your network server and/or two or more computers, or allow multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs, you need an Annual Digital Site Licence which includes extended digital rights.
- A separate Annual Digital Site Licence is required for each product title. However, if you have four or more products that you wish to license, it is more cost-effective and convenient to purchase an Annual Digital Site Licence – Multi-Product. This licence gives you blanket digital permissions for ALL Out of the Ark products that you buy.
- An Annual Digital Site Licence does not include the right to perform any of our nativities or musicals. An Annual Performance Licence will be required. Find out more about Performance Licences.
- To renew your Annual Digital Site Licence, log into your account if you have one and go to your My Licences section.
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Listen to Songs
Start The Celebrations | |
The First Days Of Summer | |
A Sunny Summer Song | |
Good To Us | |
Walking To School Week | |
Don’t Forget Your Sun Cream | |
I Heard A Blackbird Singing | |
The Grasshopper Song | |
Life Is Good! | |
Buzzing A-round! | |
So Long, Farewell, Cheerio! | |
Tell Your Dad He’s Great! | |
Start The Day With Exercise | |
The Sweaty Song | |
Today We Celebrate |
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The following items are available for this product:
Activity Songbook
- 4 colour pages of imaginative ideas & curriculum links relating to the theme of the book
- At-a-glance song information chart providing an overview and links to the music curriculum
- Fantastic music activity pages with teaching tips for each song, linking to fun and focussed learning
- Music score and song lyric sheets for 15 songs (piano music score, melody and chords)
- 15 fabulous assembly plans to help deliver Collective Worship. Themes include: Summer Fun, Summer Feelings, Green Summer, Summer Journeys, Summer Celebrations
- 3 Responsive Stories and Poems
- Glossary of musical terms, specifically to help non-specialists
- Licensing and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Digital Site Licence
This licence enables you to install the Words on Screen™ software for this title onto more than one computer or onto a network, or for multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs.
A separate Annual Digital Site Licence is required for each product title. However, if you have four or more products that you wish to license, it is more cost-effective and convenient to purchase an Annual Digital Site Licence – Multi-Product. This licence gives you blanket digital permissions for ALL Out of the Ark products that you buy.
Find out more about what your Annual Digital Site Licence covers.
Multi-Product Licence
If you have purchased multiple Words on Screen™ titles, this licence enables you to install the software for these titles onto more than one computer or onto a network, or for multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs. (A cost-effective alternative to buying 4 or more single licences).
Find out more about what your Annual Digital Site Licence covers.
Songs for Every Summer Assembly is an enjoyable, accessible, vibrant collection, curated for the summer months.
I love the wonderful power of a whole school singing together, and it’s always a pleasure to lead singing in assembly – a genuine highlight of my job over the last 20 years. I’ve been a lifelong musician, I still perform regularly as a soloist and choral singer, and I’m a dad to two young children who need no excuse to break into song. Songs for Every Summer Assembly is an enjoyable, accessible, vibrant collection, curated for the summer months. As well as its obvious relevance to assembly singing, it is packed full of suggestions for how the songs could be taught in more detail in class, supporting the National Curriculum, and used as a springboard for creative activities, both in music lessons and in the wider curriculum. It is therefore a very versatile resource which could have many different applications in a primary school. The book is well designed, with an appealing layout and pleasant illustrations. After a clear contents page, directing the user to lyrics, music and activity pages (together with CD track numbers), we are provided with some creative links which could be made between the songs and various curriculum areas. Key information, including musical style (Calypso, Latin, Jazz Funk, etc.) and some well-considered teaching tips and learning points, support anyone working with the songs, whether in assembly or in class. The teaching tips are given on a single page for each song, opposite the lyrics, which makes the book very user-friendly. Alongside the excellent recorded instrumental backing tracks (with or without vocals), a very important feature for our school is the provision of full piano accompaniment, which is composed to a high standard and with competent pianists in mind. Some schools won’t need it or want it, but for those who do, the full piano/vocal sheet music is a big plus. All in all, this is is a practical and accessible resource for any school staff, from relative novice to musical specialist. Our favourite songs in this collection are Life is Good and A Sunny Summer Song. We love the exuberant Latin groove and positive message of Life is Good! The children sing it with gusto, and it brings a massive smile to everyone’s face – not to mention the occasional shameless hip wiggle and salsa step from the person at the front! There is a harmony section, which looks good, but we haven’t tried it yet – the song works perfectly well in unison too. A Sunny Summer Song is a catchy, funky song which celebrates the fun and freedom of summer. There is a syncopated clapping rhythm which we taught to the whole school and then got our Year 6s to clap, while everyone else sang the melody – it is really effective, and just the right level of challenge to make it very achievable in the short amount of time we have for whole-school singing practice. The kids love it. Many of the songs are themed, and some are very niche (e.g. a song for Walking to School Week). We wouldn’t use them all, but it’s good to have a musical response to these themes, ready to select and pick up whenever we want. We especially like the idea of the songs in celebration of bees, grasshoppers and garden birds! As a Church of England school, much of our singing in assembly/collective worship is Christian, so this collection is one that we would dip into occasionally, selecting a couple of favourite songs to add to our repertoire. There is one Christian song (Good to Us), but it is worth other Church of England and faith schools noting that this is largely a secular resource. I would recommend this collection to any primary school, whether they sing a lot and want to expand their repertoire of songs, or don’t sing a lot and need an accessible and fun resource to get them started.
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