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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
Baa, baa, black sheep
This is a familiar, well-loved nursery rhyme. It can be sung in unison or as a round in two parts.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2 , Foundation
- Musical Element: major key , scale passages
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
- Subject: English , History
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part round)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Best behaviour
One of the Eden Project songs from the School Trip Singalong, Best behaviour promotes appropriate conduct in excitable school kids who are out and about.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied , Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: minor key
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
- Subject: PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Folk song , Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
A cat sat on a mat
A new take on the ‘Old Macdonald’ idea, this highly enjoyable song for infants has all the ingredients to make it a guaranteed favourite: onomatopoeia, rhyme, repetition and lots of scope for extension.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: verse and chorus
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: Music , Physical education , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
Down there under the sea
This charming song paints a musical picture of marine life.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: simple, stepwise melody , dotted rhythms
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2 , 3
- Subject: Art and design , English , Music , Physical education
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
Frère Jacques
This is a very famous and simple children’s song of French origin. There are many differing opinions of who Frère Jacques actually was!
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2 , Foundation
- Musical Element: major key , scale passages
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , Modern foreign languages
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional four-part)
- Vocal Range: a 9th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
The grand old Duke of York
A traditional nursery rhyme with a strong marching rhythm.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: scale passages
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: History
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 7th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
Great day at Greenwich
This is part of the National Maritime Museum pack from the School Trip Singalong. It's a great song, using a familiar tune, to top off a great day at the National Maritime Museum.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
This familiar, traditional English song will get everyone clapping and stamping their feet!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1
- Musical Element: 6/8 time
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: Physical education
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
Hickory dickory dock
This is a well-known, popular English nursery rhyme with a melody that goes up and down rather like the mouse! It can be sung in unison or as a round in two or four parts.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2 , Foundation
- Musical Element: major key , scale passages
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
- Subject: English
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two- to four-part round)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
