Songs, music and lyrics to teach and inspire your pupils
For each song you will find everything you need to get singing into your classroom: from performance, echo and backing tracks, to lyric, song sheets and sheet music. Find your perfect song.
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This is a soul ballad from the 1970s which resonates strongly with PSHE themes of maintaining supportive and empathetic school communities. A classy, but ambitious song with a demanding range, complex rhythms and richly textured, with a second part dividing for the ending to provide three harmony lines, but it’s a real show-stopper for confident choirs and upper junior singers to perform.
A swinging ‘call and response’ song built round a rhyming pattern! The singing constantly passes between the leader and the singing group as the melody subtlety changes key every four lines. You can also use the simple structure as a template for song-writing, using new rhymes.
David Tomlinson sang this in the Disney blockbuster Mary Poppins and like all the songs (and the heroine) from this film it is ‘practically perfect in every way!’ A light-hearted and singable song that never seems to date!
This is traditional Greek song sung by the islanders who ask the sea to protect their fishermen. It has an interesting rhythmic feature, being written in 7/8 time –giving the melody a fascinating lilt, reminiscent of the endless ebb and flow of the tide.
This new piece, written by Ronald Corp, uses the text from Psalm 150 and was commissioned to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Musicians Benevolent Fund. It is included in the Sing a new song resource.
This is a simple and fun way of learning the numbers one to twelve in French.
This call and response song from Ghana is a great way of focusing children’s attention and bringing them together.
This is a charming 19th century American folk song with an interesting but challenging melody. It can be sung in unison or as a four part round.
A triumphant Christmas carol in its original Latin, Adeste fideles is a call to celebrate and praise the birth of Jesus.
A traditional nonsense song about the man who lived in the moon. In this arrangement, watch out for a gradual increase in pace over the five verses!
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