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A Douze
This is a simple and fun way of learning the numbers one to twelve in French.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied , Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: minor key , simple, stepwise melody
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5
- Subject: Mathematics , Modern foreign languages
- Style: Pop , Waltz
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
A Keelie
This call and response song from Ghana is a great way of focusing children’s attention and bringing them together.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1
- Musical Element: call and response
- Year Group: 1 , 2
- Subject: Geography
- Style: Singing game
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional three-part)
- Vocal Range: a 10th
Adeste fideles (O come all ye faithful)
A triumphant Christmas carol in its original Latin, Adeste fideles is a call to celebrate and praise the birth of Jesus.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: legato
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , Religious education
- Style: Christmas song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Aiken Drum
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!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: tempo change
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Design and technology
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part chorus)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: minor key , syncopation
- Year Group: 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Pop , Soul
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: a 10th
Alice the camel
This is really fun to sing and also reinforces counting. It would be great for singing on a coach journey.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied , Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2 , Foundation
- Musical Element: major key , key change (modulation)
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Mathematics , Science
- Style: Other
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 12th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
All through the night
This is usually accepted to be a traditional Welsh folk song. Very little other information is available about its history, though we might assume from the lyrics of the English translation that it is a lullaby.
Alouette
This is a fun, cumulative children’s song that is generally regarded as French in origin but that some sources suggest is from Canada. In English, ‘Alouette’ is ‘The Lark’.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: slurs , major key
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Geography , Modern foreign languages
- Style: Folk song , Cumulative song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 9th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
Alphabet athletics
An alphabet song with a difference — you sing the letters forwards and backwards!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: simple, stepwise melody
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: English
- Style: Other
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
The alphabet song
This is a bright and bouncy way to teach the alphabet.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: major key , syncopation , blue notes
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: English
- Style: Other
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
