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Chocoholics
This is a really fun song – you’ll hardly notice you’re doing number work at all!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: speech , major key
- Year Group: 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Mathematics
- Style: Other
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
Eyes on the sky
This is Song 3 in What a good idea! (The Sing Up Musical) The inventors and the students are celebrating the invention of the flying machine which became the first aeroplane.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation
- Year Group: 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Design and technology , History , Science
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
I once saw an elephant
This is a cheerful song about animals that play instruments.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: simple, stepwise melody
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
- Subject: English , Music
- Style: Other , Cumulative song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 9th
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
Information highway
This is Song 5 from The Sing Up Musical What a good idea! It celebrates computers and the internet.
Jungle song
This humorous action song was composed for the Royal School for the Deaf in Margate. It’s a lively echo piece to be signed, with opportunities for some great Tarzan-like grunts and chest-thumping. It’s a winner for hearing performers, too!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: echo phrases
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3
- Subject: Science
- Style: Signed
- Vocal Format: Two-part
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
Menu song
This is a traditional, cumulative song about different meals for every day of the week.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1
- Year Group: 1 , 2
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Jazz , Cumulative song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
The mermaid
Sing up, me ’earties! This traditional sea shanty with its lively nautical melody recounts a terrible disaster when seafarers tangle with a mermaid
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: dotted rhythms
- Subject: English , Geography , History
- Style: Sea shanty
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
Song of the fish
A fun song introducing different types of fish, using finger-spelling and sign language — a real feast of information and activity! These activities give you lots of options for exploring the song with different groups of children.
To see the sign language video for this song click here.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: time signature change
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: English , Science
- Style: Signed
- Vocal Format: Unison or optional multiple parts
- Vocal Range: a 6th
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
Sound down the wire
A beautifully inventive, melodic song about the history of the telephone. This is Song 4 from The Sing Up Musical What a good idea!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: key change (modulation) , time signature change
- Subject: Design and technology , History , Science
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: a 12th
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
Winter nights
A gentle, lyrical ballad that describes a wish to support, protect and care for another person: a reflective song with two simple accompanying vocal parts.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: legato , syncopation , wide melodic leaps
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Lullaby
- Vocal Format: Three-part (optional unison)
- Vocal Range: an 11th
- Accessibility/SEN: Signed video
