This is not your average children’s concert, this is one you will really enjoy and you will get up and dance. Parents also came back having had an amazing evening of entertainment. I like to think I can do a pretty good singing assembly, but this is a whole different level of inspiration. There are some really magical moments where you catch the children staring, open mouthed, as Natalie Williams begins to sing or Urban Strides are dancing. This is an experience which will inspire and motivate the children and will live long in the memory. Furthermore, they get to perform with professional musicians, singers and dancers of an impressively high standard. The children have a wonderful experience to perform at an iconic venue, like the O2 Arena, which is pretty cool. Everyone involved comes in to school the next day still buzzing with excitement. The single best thing I have been involved with as a teacher is taking my choir to Young Voices. Ready, respectful and safe seems to cover everything and is simple enough to remember, especially with a catchy song! Previously we had 7 learning behaviours and 7 learning values and no one could really remember what they all were or what they meant. Simplifying to these 3 school rules has had a really positive impact for both children and adults in our school. You may not be surprised to know that these 3 rules were inspired by the excellent book ‘ When the Adults Change Everything Changes‘, by Paul Dix. The idea is to explore the meanings of these words a bit more and to be used as a reference point throughout school when talking to children. We have 3 simple school rules of being, ‘Ready, Respectful and Safe’ so that became the theme of the song. This seemed like the perfect opportunity to write and record our own school song! So I got writing. Each class will sing a their own songs as well as some whole school songs and a couple solos. We have done this before, but this time we will be recording and producing it ourselves, any profit will be returned to the school and can be reinvested in music education for our children. Conversely, I also think it’s important to share your passions with the children and music is such a powerful and enjoyable form of expression I do try to include it where I can.Īs part of my role of music lead, this year we will be recording a school album. I’ve always been a bit wary of playing my guitar in school as it feels like it can get a bit cringey and David Brent when you inflict your music on other people. Music Music Teaching Primary Music School Music Singing Assemblies The music is from different time periods and genres and is played while the children are arriving, I then give them a little history about the artists. It’s a great way of sharing high quality recording artists from all over the world with the children. I use this PowerPoint as part of our Cultural Assemblies every week. You can find them here in all their random glory. It wasn’t all doom and gloom during lockdown, we kept going with Virtual Singing Assemblies for people to join in with whether they were at home or in school. It’s just a list of songs that children love to sing. I hope the songs included can be used by schools whether they are faith schools or not. As we’re not a church school I’ve not included any of the many songs suggested to me with religious meaning. Many of the songs included on the list come from recommendations from other teachers on Twitter. If you have any recommendations that I should add to the list, please put them in the comments. I’ve compiled this massive Google sheet of some of the tried and tested songs with video links to original videos, karaoke versions and lyric videos that can all be used in singing assemblies. The children respond by absolutely singing their hearts out. Personally, I prefer to pick modern songs that the have a positive message and might be more familiar to our children. Some schools like to go down the traditional route of songs that I have been sung for decades in British schools. We really missed our Singing Assemblies while they were restricted by COVID-19, but now they are back and it’s glorious.
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