Key Stage 1
Orchestral piece by Czech composer from the Romantic era.
KS1 idea: Good for listening to use of long and short sounds (particularly short sounds in the main section).
Official classification: Unit 3. The long and the short of it - Exploring duration, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Curriculum support
Interactive action song. Full version.
Official classification: Singing, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Key Stage 1, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Interactive action song, backing track and words for class to sing along.
Official classification: Singing, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Key Stage 1, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Audio narration by Natasha from Storynory.com. Aladdin’s Lamp is packed with oriental mystique - not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princes, and a poor boy who gets very lucky indeed.
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Open Sesame ! The famous story from Persia of how Ali Baba outwitted a band of robbers with a little help from the clever slave-girl, Morgiana. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Aesop’s fable of the runaway slave and the lion with a thorn in its paw. A tale story of gratitude. Narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Aesop’s fables are loved pretty much everywhere. In these four audio adaptations by Storynory a rat, grasshopper, a fox and a mouse tell their tales in their own words.
Official classification: Listening, Animals, The Spoken Word, Stories, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister, audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Tongue Twisters, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister, audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Tongue Twisters, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Two poems. Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. No Rudolf but Santa’s Reindeer Dasha, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen feature. Audio narration by Natasha from storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Christmas, Poetry, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 21 Who Knows, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Arguably Beethoven's best known symphony. Characterised by it's opening motif, it's use and influence continues to be widespread.
KS1/2: An example of use repeated patterns. Focus listening by asking pupils to give a signal each time they hear the opening motif repeated during the rest of the piece.
Official classification: Symphony, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, Naxos
Children's clapping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St John's Baloonagh Primary School, Tralee, Southern Ireland (1975)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Children's skipping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St James' Girls School, Paisley (1961)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Children's clapping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at Ballyheigue and Glenderry Primary Schools, Southern Ireland (1975)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Song from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart. Using notes from Do diatonic.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Song from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart. Using notes from Do diatonic.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Tone set from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Song from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart. Using notes from Do diatonic.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Song for pleasure from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Rhyme from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax