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This warm-up is great for concentration. You can add actions and sing it in many different ways, including a round.
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: scale passages
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Mathematics
- Style: Warm-up
60 minutes
This short number was devised by Carrie and David Grant to accompany our specially commissioned song, Raise my voice. It promotes exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle, and is a good warm-up for focusing on clarity of diction and aspects of breathing. Check out this video link for some ideas on how to incorporate some fun actions into the warm-up!
If you like this, try the other great warm-ups written by Carrie and David:
Five portions a day
I like me
Make it me-sized
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional three-part)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1, KS2
- Musical Element: time signature change
- Year Group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Mathematics, Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison or optional multiple parts
Calm-down warm-up
This is a great warm up for your tongue and lips. It uses the lyrics from the well-loved nursery song Wind the bobbin up.
Clap to the heartbeat!
One of the hardest things to do in singing is to keep a really steady tempo; pieces often rush ahead! This six-part round helps to train this sense and helps each member of the group to take responsibility for keeping the pulse.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: chant
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional three- to six part round)
Classroom sing song
This warm up is to be performed as the class takes a walk (or a look) around the classroom, maybe at the end of the lesson before the music lesson, and it is good to encourage the children to step along in time with the beat. This song is based around the minor third and develops some of the following skills: Confidence with singing in groups and on their own, listening and responding, pulse and rhythmical movement, creativity and inspiration.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1, KS2
- Musical Element: call and response
- Year Group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: English, PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional call and response)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Come and sit down
This transition song, to the tune of Frère Jacques, encourages children to sit down ready for the start of class!
See Rebecca Lawrence’s article, ‘Sing your way through the day’, for more information. Click here for help with creating your own transition songs!
Doleful Dick of Delhi
While covering quite a large range, the repetitive ‘sequential’ nature of this tune allows singers to focus on enunciating the words really clearly.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: rising melodic sequence
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Music
- Style: Warm-up, Tongue-twister
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 10th
Faces: morphing
This is a warm up that will help you achieve an expressive and mobile face when you’re singing
