The Songs For EVERY Series was created by Out of the Ark Music co-founders Mark & Helen Johnson and has provided enjoyment and inspiration for countless children around the world. Each songbook has catchy tunes in a wide variety of styles, and positive topics to get every day off to a great start, teachers can continue to use them from year to year.
The resources in the Songs For EVERY series are designed for every teacher, no matter their music skill or confidence level. The songs can be presented to the children to learn easily using the Words on Screen™ Player, where you can display song lyrics and play the audio track on your device or interactive whiteboard.
The cross-curricular activities include all the information you need to further explore the topic, learn and have fun whether you are using them in the classroom or as part of an assembly.
"Songs for Every… series should be a staple in every primary school’s music resources. To say there is a song for absolutely everything would be an understatement! These are your best resource to find any song you need for a school topic or assembly – the series covers everything you would expect and many lovely extras that will become indispensable!" Ruth Coles - Head Of Junior Music - Blackheath High School
Knowing how much potential there is in these fabulous songs, each book in the series includes a feast of original and exciting music activities for you to use alongside the songs. We want to help you to grab hold of EVERY musical possibility contained within each and EVERY song and enjoy the learning opportunities they bring. Additionally, our imaginative ideas pages will open up the thematic content of the songs by linking with the wider curriculum and beyond. Our aim is to provide inroads towards creative music education using material that we know will equip, give confidence and inspire everyone.
Brand new for Autumn 2022 is Songs For EVERY Autumn Assembly. This collection of fifteen feel-good songs is an invaluable resource for the autumn term, certain to liven up any school assembly. This book contains a selection of upbeat, relevant songs which are great fun to sing and ideal for primary school children of all ages. Themes include thanksgiving, harvest, bonfire night, anti-bullying and new beginnings – with no shortage of joyful songs to explore all the wonder and colour of this magical season of change.
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USED IT? LOG IT! Most schools have a CWCL licence from Christian Copyright Licensing Limited (CCLI) - more information can be found here. This licence grants permission to display song lyrics and music from Out of the Ark Music’s Words on Screen™ Singchronize™ Player and CD ROMs, on any projection screen as well as download and share lyrics and music. Whenever you use our songs, please make note of your usage and then log your songs on your CCLI copy report, so that song writers and copyright holders are paid for their work.
Out of the Ark Music has been providing schools across the country – and world – with wonderful primary school musicals and primary school songs for nearly 30 years. Our Christmas musicals and nativity plays make children sparkle and shine, year after year, as they proudly perform their school Christmas play. Our extensive collection of fun and joyous Easter songs, harvest songs, school assembly songs, leavers songs and even space songs, fill schools with laughter and give students and teachers alike, a reason to sing every day of the week. We’re glad you’re supporting us in our dreams of creating the best music for schools around the globe. Read more about us here.
