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Bad guys
This honky-tonk song is taken from the musical Bugsy Malone, based on 1920s Chicago. The gangsters, showgirls and bar staff are played by children who carry custard-firing guns.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: chromaticism
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , Physical education , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 12th
Consider yourself
This song is from Lionel Bart’s musical, based on Charles Dickens’ 19th-century classic novel Oliver Twist. It crystallises the moment when Oliver is accepted into Fagin’s gang of young criminals.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: dotted rhythms
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Easy peasy Harvest!
This is a great Harvest time song that is a bit like a word search. Listen carefully for all the foods hidden in the lyrics!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: dotted rhythms
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: English , PSHE & Citizenship , Religious education
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
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
Five fine bumble bees
A fun counting song with great bumble bee sound effects. Choose numbers to fit in with your Mathematics learning. These could be evens, odds, backwards, in fives, tens, hundreds. Or as simple as one to five.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: vocal percussion , tempo change
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: Mathematics , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
Harvest rock and roll
A catchy song for Harvest and the autumn season.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation , blue notes
- Year Group: 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Geography , PSHE & Citizenship , Religious education
- Style: Rock 'n' roll , Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional three-part)
- Vocal Range: an 11th
I wanna be like you
A fun, jazzy song from Disney’s animated film The Jungle Book, based on stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: scat , verse and chorus
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship , Religious education
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
In the autumn
This is a great song for those sunny autumn days! It is simple to pick up but full of scope for music teaching and for curriculum-linked work at different levels.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation , key change (modulation) , rising melodic sequence
- Year Group: 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: English , Geography , Science
- Style: Musical theatre , Jazz
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 11th
The inch worm
This song describes the journey an inch worm makes and how it must have so much time to enjoy the beauty of the marigolds. This song is from Hans Christian Andersen, a Hollywood musical film.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: chromaticism
- Year Group: 5 , 6
- Subject: English , Mathematics , Science
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: an 11th
The land of cogs and wheels
This is a fun song about actions and reactions. It is part of a mini-musical called The Weekend Whizz. The melody and rhythms evoke the ‘push and pull’ of scientific and chemical reactions.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: verse and chorus
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Science
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 11th
