‘Say “Hello”’ is a fast poppy song packed with positive messages. It’s a 90 second blast of pure melodic energy. Use is as a lesson starter to get attention and boost the energy level of your classroom. Use it as your walk-on music. Boxers and pop stars have walk-on music. Why not teachers? It’s got simple words and lots of repetition that makes it easy for children to learn and sing along. It’s also got a cool lyrics and graphics video on YouTube that will help with literacy. The second verse is uplifting: ‘Open your eyes and see the colours. Open your heart and let love flow. Open your arms and throw them around the world, and say hello, hello, hello’, etc.

‘Home Again (Refugee Song)’ was written in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to the news reports about millions of people escaping to other countries. The song is sung by a mother to her child. In just a few words, ‘Home Again’ asks the question – how can you return home when your home either does not exist anymore or is just a temporary stay in a new country? The music is soothing. The gently pulsing rhythm is calming and meditative. My hope is that you will find this song a useful way to raise the topic of population displacement with children. If you work with refugee children, I hope it will help them understand that, whatever they might have been through, there is always a possibility to build a new home in a new place. The song has three main chords and can easily be transcribed to suit your children’s voices.

A rock’n’soul, riff-tastic, body-movin’, mind-expandin’ song that draws on one of Ken Robinson’s big themes - IMAGINATION! Warning: This song contains useful information designed to fire the imagination of children. As the great Ken Robinson told us, imagination is the key to creativity which is the key to creating new ways of living and of being. This song gets kids to think big about who they might want to be and how they might want to live. Powerful stuff! And, guess what? The song is full of imaginative images that were sent to me by the fans of my band, Johnny and the Raindrops. I just linked them all together with some cool music. There is also an eye-popping video that shows you (and the children) all of the things that were imagined. Search ‘Imagination’ on the Johnny and the Raindrops’ YouTube channel. Enjoy!

‘The Halloween Album’: Full of spooky tunes to get you shakin’ like a Skeleton, moanin’ like a Zombie and stompin’ like a Monster. Wiggle along with the five Halloween worms (a finger song) Crawl with the five little spiders. Dance with the monster with 12 belly buttons. Fall in love with the bat with the broken wing. Remember - Witches. Mummies. Ghosts - ‘YOU DON’T SCARE ME!’. Includes the poignant single ‘Bat with a broken wing’ (available as a separate TES resource). It’s the ‘Fairytale of New York’ of Halloween. The album Includes an instrumental sing-along version of ‘Bat with a Broken Wing’

Great song to help learn the colours of the rainbow. Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet! Resource contains the lyric video plus a separate lyric sheet.

This resource contains 20 original songs and pieces of music for a school production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Created for a production performed across Nottinghamshire schools in 2017. The script was adapted by Martha Toogood. It is included here with cues as to where the songs and music fit with the text. A link to a video is included for reference. The original productions were peformed by Year 8, 9 and 10s. Title song ‘Whipping up a Tempest’ tells the whole story of TheTempest in 12 verse and 8 minutes! Available as a separate resource in my TES shop. The resource includes a medley of some of the songs to play as the audience leave the hall. The songs are relatively simple, memorable and accessible for this age group. The title song ‘Whipping up a Tempest’ is based on Johnny Cash. The others are equally ‘pop’. Vocal versions are included as guides for rehearsals. Instrumental versions are to be sung over in the production. In our prodcutions we used a vocal version of one of Ariel’s songs. Both instrumental and vocal versions are included here for choice. MP3 versions are included in this resource for size and ease of downloading. Full requency WAV versions are available after purchase and will be sent separately through a file transfer app. I (Liam Maloy) am available for guidance. Get in touch for advice and tips on how this can work for you and your children. Feel free to check out my other ‘Shakespeare in Schools’ music and songs for Macbeth.

Fun, lively, interactive song to learn the parts of the body. Knees! Cheeks! Chin! Tummy! Head! Do the actions. Sing along! Words and chords included as separate documents.

Catchy, upbeat, danceable, singable song for children to learn about shrinking bee populations, the danger of pesticides to bees, and the impact that losing bees will have on humans. Lyric sheet included.

Catchy Halloween song. Perfect for children of all ages. Sing along with the call-and-response choruses! Do the actions: hop like a frog, flap like a bat, squirm like a worm! Lyrics included.

This is a song to encourage children to be themselves, to be assertive, to be proud and independent, and find their OWN way in the world. Yes - we all get help from family, teachers and other people in our lives, but this song is all about YOU - your voice, your journey - your SELF! Sing along: ‘Be yourself. Be proud. Sing YOUR song. Sing it LOUD! … There’s a story deep inside that only you can tell’. The music is up-tempo Irish folk, like the Pogues or the Dubliners!

Enjoy this lovely song for children all about NATURE! It’s got lots of cute animals in the video. The simple words are included in this lyric video. Teachers - you might be interested in how I used AI (for the first time!) to write the words. I’m a life-long songwriter, long-time music lecturer and now senior lecturer in Education so I like to experiment and reflect. You can read what I wrote about how this song came together on my Spinning the Child blog site.

Clap your Vampire hands and stomp your Monster feet to ‘Let’s have Fun this Halloween’, a new rockin’ and rollin’, jumpin’ and jivin’ Halloween song and sing-along video. Every line is a spooky new dance move! Fun, interactive song for young children. The lyrics encourage participation, e.g. howling like a Werewolf, flying like a Witch, crawling like a spider, etc. Feel free to make up your own actions for other spooky characters!