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- 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
Baby one, two, three
A laid back, jazzy song involving the body from head to toe!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation , blue notes
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Physical education
- Style: Jazz
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
Baningati
A bright and cheerful Cameroonian playground song
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation
- Year Group: 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Geography , Religious education
- Style: Other
- Vocal Format: Unison or optional multiple parts
- Vocal Range: a 9th
Basin Street blues
A relaxed but upbeat Dixieland blues, this song is ideal for singing on a warm summer’s day!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation , blue notes
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Geography , History , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Blues
- Vocal Format: Two-part
- Vocal Range: a 9th
Be cool
Be cool is from a collection called Green Songs, four songs on environmental themes.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: syncopation
- Year Group: 6
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship , Science
- Style: Jazz
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
By and by
A great spiritual song to get everybody’s toes tapping.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: syncopation
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Spiritual
- Vocal Format: Two-part
- Vocal Range: an 11th
Dem bones
This spiritual song is based on the Bible story of the prophet Ezekiel, who brought to life a whole valley of dry bones at God’s command.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation
- Year Group: 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Science , Religious education
- Style: Spiritual
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
Do anything but throw it away
This is a groovy song about the topical theme of recycling. It’s a great starting point for creating your own verses.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: speech , verse and chorus , major key , syncopation
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship , Science
- Style: Other
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 9th
Drop in the ocean
A thought provoking contemporary ballad with important messages.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: whispering , syncopation , key change (modulation)
- Year Group: 5 , 6
- Subject: Geography , PSHE & Citizenship , Religious education
- Style: Contemporary
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: a 13th
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
