Here are some suggestions to help you with your National Sing Up Day Star Challenges!
1 star
Vocal warm-ups:
H.E.L.L.O.
Say hello
Songs in rounds:
Nanuma
Frère Jacques
Tidy-up song:
It’s time to have our break
A chant:
Ain’t no mountain high enough
Grandma rap
Le rap des couleurs
Roman rap
5 stars
Songs in 3 parts / Playground flashmob (multi-part, difficult and easy, for different years joining on different verses):
Aint gona let nobody
Aint no mountain high enough
Bassez down
Hakuna Matata
Gospel medley (Swing low, When the saints, I'm gona sing)
Kum ba yah
La bamba
Let’s twist again
Maths? Oh yeah!
Kye kye kule
Płynie statek
Singing clapping games for playground for lunch/breaktime/ with dance moves great for the playground:
The animals went in two by two
As I was walking down the street
Baningati
Dancer in the ring
Dreidel song
Emmanuel Road
If you’re happy and you know it
Songs in another language:
Frère Jacques
Alouette
Ame sau vala tara bal
La bamba
Le rap des couleurs
Hello/goodbye songs:
H.E.L.L.O.
Say hello
Hello, hello
Songs about Maths/other subjects:
Electricity
Punctuation jive
Maths? Oh yeah!
Songs with drumming/strong rhythm:
Ame sau vala tara bal
Dhage
Baningati
Punctuation Jive
Aint gonna let nobody
Bassez down
10 stars
Songs with instrumental accompaniments for staff to accompany:
Aint gonna let nobody
Baningati
Kum ba yah
Let’s go fly a kite
Little bird
The roast beef of old England
Sunshine in my heart
Tingalayo
A song from a favourite musical:
Hakuna Matata
I wanna be like you
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Starlight Express
We’re all in this together
You’ve got a friend in me
20 stars
Songs from different eras:
Consider yourself
Bobby Shafto
Cockles and Mussels
Poverty knock
The roast beef of old England
Easy to learn, or that schools know well, simple songs / Songs with repetition to try singing without the words / songs for Playground flashmob:
Jump Jim Joe
John Kanaka
Here Comes Sally
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody
When the saints go marchin' in
Down by the riverside
Tingalayo
Lean on me
An anthem to get inspiration from when writing your own:
I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free)
Oh happy day
Easy/memorable for singing in different places, uplifting songs people shopping in centres would be happy and cheered to hear:
Believe
Oh happy day
Something inside (so strong)
Parents’ favourite songs/Pop songs to initiate discussion:
Aint no mountain high enough
I can see clearly now
La Bamba
Lean on me
Let’s twist again
Something inside (so strong)
Walking on sunshine
We are the champions
You raise me up
Link with Secondary school, song suitable for Secondary also:
Baloo Baleerie
Aint gona let nobody
Aint no mountain high enough
Ame sau vala tara bal
Baningati
Believe
I can see clearly now
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
Lean on me
Oh happy day
Something inside (so strong)
Wade in the water
We are the champions
You raise me up
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