An original harvest-themed song to the tune of ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis. Resource includes lyric slides, to help teach the lyrics in small chunks and a full lyrics sheet on one side of A4.

Singh Song! This two-lesson mini-unit covers Daljit Nagra’s ‘Singh Song!’ in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA’s Love and Relationships poetry, this resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. The resource is made up of a 48-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 4 accompanying worksheets. The two lessons contain the following: Lesson One Context – A brief outline of Daljit Nagra and British immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. First Reading – A reading of ‘Singh Song!’ and discussion of the poem’s inspiration by the poet Daljit Nagra. Language and imagery – Analysing ‘Singh Song!’ in detail. Exploring key imagery and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided. Essay Writing – An essay question to assess initial understanding. An example answer is included. Lesson Two Themes – Analysing the themes of ‘Singh Song!’ – Romantic love and family relationships. Structure and Form – How Daljit Nagra uses structure, rhythm and rhyme. The GCSE Exam – Comparing ‘Singh Song!’ with ‘Winter Swans’ and ‘Letters From Yorkshire’. Model answer included. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more AQA Anthology Poetry - Love and Relationships resources: When We Two Parted Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ Neutral Tones The Farmer’s Bride Eden Rock Mother, Any Distance Before You Were Mine Walking Away Follower Letters From Yorkshire Winter Swans Climbing My Grandfather AQA GCSE Anthology Poetry Love and Relationships Pack

Song of the day provides information about and a link to a different song for every day of the school year. Listen to a song and day with your class and discuss using the Listen and Appraise questions as a discussion starter. Expand the musical horizons or your pupils and get them thinking critically about music. Songs in this resource come from a range of musical genres and time periods. An effort has been made to ensure diversity of musicians and composers where possible. When appropriate, the song links to a video of a live performance. All songs and videos have been check for clean language and appropriateness for young age groups.

This is a 6 week topic that aims to give the children an understanding of the song writing process. This topic is designed to give the children the opportunity to write a song, from scratch, as a class over a six week process. It will help them to develop a good understanding of the process of writing a song, the “musical ingredients” (elements) that are needed and an appreciation of the time and skill that goes into writing a song. The children will develop an understanding of how to structure a song, creating verses, a chorus and the opportunity to compose a bridge/middle 8 as well. You do not necessarily have to be musical to do this but obviously some knowledge would help. It’s a great project for you to use for children who currently play an instrument as well, especially if you have been learning one via the wider opps/first access projects. Instruments can be easily incorporated into the topic. The topic also included opportunities for children to rap and beat box if they are not too keen on singing! The first 1-3 lessons will be spent on writing some verses and a chorus. This will be followed by adding simple accompaniment using class percussion (tuned and untuned) and other instruments your class/children may have been learning how to play. The songs will be kept in C Major/A Minor (Using the common chords C, F, G & Am). This is perfect for their vocal range and for accompanying instruments. Instrumental parts could also be added in between the verses and choruses. By the end of the topic the class with have a complete song that they can record and perform to other years and their parents. Links to curriculum/Possible assessment opportunities: Use the voice expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes Play tuned and untuned instruments musically Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music Please note: I have used the font AR CHRISTY so you may have to edit some of the slides/fonts.

This is a Year 9s guide to song writing. Very barebones but excellent to promote independent learning in Year 9 music. Great way to keep the 'not takers' interested for the last 2 terms. Plenty of examples and fun activities. Only PDF copy as I can not find the originals.

List of songs and artists that have been good for KS3 and KS4 classes.

A really fun and different Harvest song - perfect for a Harvest assembly! There are lyrics for one full verse, the chorus and the pre-chorus. Backing tracks can easily be accessed via Youtube.

Here is a list of German Songs hyperlinked to YOUTUBE

Full revision table for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience for AQA English Literature B A-Level Aspects of Social and Political Protest Writing Includes a full list of themes with relating quotes (AO2), context (AO3), links across the text (AO4) and critics (AO5).

For your class assembly… a song about Rainforests to the tune of George Ezra Shot gun I made it for my Year 4 class and parents and the boys loved it!

A 20 slide powerpoint presentation with examples of figurative language in lyrics from popular songs with an appropriate accompanying image. Includes simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, senses, imagery, idiom, hyperbole, anaphora and rule of three. I print these on A3 and use this as a display in my classroom, but it could also be used to introduce these concepts to a class within a wider lesson about literary devices. I find that my classes find the examples easier to remember when they are from popular songs.

From KS3 to KS5 - a selection of French songs which have a particular aspect of interest (vocabulary / grammatical point / theme) . I have included the youtube link.

Includes 2 introduction lessons and then 5 songs to play. Intended for half/full term. Clear colour coding, instructions and design. Aimed at usage with KS2-3 pupils. Keep in mind, these are not the full songs, however, if you change the lyrics for each verse you can repeat what you need to play it. Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Queen - We Are The Champion The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop Journey - Don’t Stop Believing This is also part of a bundle with 10 other Pop and Film songs. FONT: If using the PowerPoint Presentation and not the PDF then you may need to install the fonts inside the .zip file provided

Enjoy this detailed analysis task for the majority of songs for Blood Brothers. Each song has been given 3 questions and then the language techniques that features within that song. Students are asked to complete a range of tasks whilst filling in the grid such as ‘What is happening in this song?’ and ‘Does the song relate to anything else within the play?’

A fun song written for a nursery class to perform at their harvest festival assembly. The children stamped their feet and played claves to accompany the song. The song provided a starting point for many other activities and would be a good resource for the whole of KS1.

PowerPoint-based GCSE teaching resource for Singh Song! by Daljit Nagra.

A simple song using names of drinks to help students to be able to perform basic rhythms.

Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, set to music. Can be used to augment any drama or performing work, or as an introduction to any work on Alice. I’ve set all of Lewis Carroll’s poems to music, in as bizarre a way as possible - if you need music to any of his other work , let me know. It would be a great Performing Arts project for the pupils to devise their own presentation of the stories using the songs as a framework.

A full set of lessons for Songs Of Ourselves - IGCSE Examination 2019. Powerpoints, analysis, tasks and questions all included.

learning objective is to be able to recognise a wide variety of tenses in an authentic text. Using a latin song to develop culture awareness, the text is excellent as it covers lots of GCSE tenses. The lesson plan is included on the documents and contains a Foundation and Higher level.