Year 3 and Year 4 Singing Festivals ‘Raise The Roof’ 2017
‘What A Wonderful World!’
Anne Clough North Somerset Music Service
Year 3 and Year 4 Singing Festivals Raise the Roof 2017 ‘What A Wonderful World!’
Twilight seminars:
North area: Tuesday 12th September 2017 to be held in Yeo Moor Primary School, Clevedon at 4.15-5.15pm or South area: Thursday 14th September 2017 to be held in Castle Batch Primary School, Worle at 4.15-5.15pm
Aim of the seminar: To introduce the songs & to learn them! To introduce the festival dates for each cluster and school. To introduce the format and the organization of the festivals.
Schools/ teachers MUST book onto this event if they wish their children to take part. Go to www.nsmusic4you.org.uk to book. Go to ‘school zone‘, ‘singing’ & follow the links.
Year 3 and Year 4 children: Children taking part should all be in Year 3 and/or Year 4 classes. Please confirm at the twilight seminar which Year groups you will be bringing to the festival. Please also confirm the number of classes/ children. This is important as we need to ensure that the host school/ venue for the festival can accommodate the total number of children from the cluster schools. Also at the twilight seminar please ensure you have given us a contact email address.
Song and sources: The theme of this year’s ‘Raise The Roof’ is ‘What A Wonderful World!’ and is based around songs from different countries and cultures around the world.
This Singing Festival includes the following songs: Title of song & Musical activities to do with the songs composer ‘What a wonderful world’ A classic sung by Louis Armstrong. Sing in unison and Written by Bob Thiele (as enjoy! "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. ‘Tue Tue’ Traditional. Ghanaian folk song. This could be sung in arranged by Rachel Wadham. unison or as a two part round. Keep the beat on body Sing Up percussion whilst singing. Add percussion with the beat. ‘Mexican Counting Song’ Traditional. Learning this song will help children to count to arranged by Kevin Stannard. ten in Spanish, French, and German, as well as English! a Sing Up. ‘Four White Horses’. Traditional. Caribbean. Sing in unison. Add a bass line to this Sing Up. song with Chime bars, Xylophones, Glockenspiels, metallophones or Boom whackers. You need the notes G, E, C & D. ‘Chocolate Molinillo’. Traditional Spanish. A straight forward song. Add actions to Collected by Helen MacGregor. the words where appropriate. In Spain this song is Sing Up. popularly known as Corre, corre, que te pillo. ‘Eh Memarie’. Traditional Estonian. A nonsense singing game: Collected by Susannah Vango Children sit in a circle with hands out to each side, palms and Urszula Weber. facing upwards. Everyone places their right hand on top of Sing Up. the left hand of the neighbour to their right. Begin the song with one child holding a beanbag in their right hand. Whilst singing the song, children pass this beanbag round the circle on the beat. Once confident with this action take the beanbag away but still imagine it is being passed. Whoever is about to be trapped on the word ‘three’ must move their hand away or else they are out. If they move their hand away in time, the person tapping them is out. When someone is out the circle gets progressively smaller. The game is played until there is only one child left in! ‘Tańczymy Labada’ Traditional. Polish singing game: Collected by Urszula Weber. Move sideways by crossing left foot in front of right foot. Sing Up. At the end of the song the leader calls out ‘have we had hands?’ The children respond ‘YES!’ The leader calls out another part of the body, eg. ‘But have we had heads?’ and the children respond with ‘NO!’ Children walk around in a circle once again. The song is repeated as many times as necessary. Each time the leader calls out the parts of the body which have already been used and then calls out a new part of the body. The game is cumulative. ‘It’s Diwali’ Indian. Simple straight forward song. Sing in unison or add From ‘Diwali’ by Sam & Mat the simple Part 2. Dixon-Szul Add appropriate actions. ‘One World’ Straight forward song sung in unison but in two parts. Junior Voiceworks 2. Arranged by Kevin Stannard There will be an additional song/musical activity introduced at the Singing Festival.
Format of the ‘Raise The Roof’ festivals:
Attend the twilight seminar and learn the songs. Teach them to your children, have fun and enjoy! Try to learn the songs from memory for the festival-although we may use the powerpoint with the words on for a few of the longer songs, most of them will be sung from memory. You will receive a support visit in your school for the classes participating in ‘Raise The Roof’. The date and time of your support visit is listed below. Your support visit will be between 45 minutes and an hour in length. A CD player and a whiteboard/projector to project the words will be needed. Come to the festival (venues to be confirmed) with your children and sing the songs with other children from schools your neighbourhood. There will an additional song/ musical activity for the children to learn and do at the Singing Festival on the day. Volunteers from the staff will be asked for to help with songs and using/playing instruments with the songs. Don’t worry- they will be easy things to do! If you would like to lead any of the songs, instead of me doing it, then you would be extremely welcome-let me know which song or songs you would like to lead. Lots of schools use the songs and materials for a further performance to their school and/or their parents which is a great idea! Why not try it?
Times of the festivals:
All morning festivals will start at 10 am and will finish by 11.30 am. All afternoon festivals will start at 1.15pm (unless otherwise stated) and will finish by 2.45pm. Please arrive in time to be seated and ready to start at that time. Coaches can collect at 11.30am or 2.45pm at the end of the workshops. We don’t usually give the children a playtime or have squash/biscuits after the ‘Raise the Roof’ festival. However if you would like the arrangements to be different for your particular festival/venue then please organise with the schools involved and let me know in advance so that I can ensure that we finish the festival in plenty of time.
Transport:
Schools to organise their own transport to the venues. Why not ask a neighbouring school if you could share a coach?
Venues of festivals: The venues and dates of the festivals are listed below. If your school is in red then we have not received your booking onto this festival at the time of publishing this booklet. If you wish your children to take part, then you must book on via www.nsmusic4you.org.uk. Venues are varied every year so that the festivals are shared around schools and not in the same place every year, with the same schools having to incur coach costs. If your school is a prospective venue for this year, it is important confirm this with me as soon as possible, so that other schools attending your venue know as early as possible and can add it to their school diary. If your school is a venue for a festival then please get the hall ready for the other schools visiting: a good CD player, a projector/ laptop (although I can bring & use my laptop if there is a problem) to project the words to tricky songs (although most of the songs will be sung from memory) and chairs/seating along the side of the hall for adults from other schools. Costumes/dressing up for the festival:
On the day of the festival children can dress up something to do with a particular country- maybe a country in one of the songs we are singing or a country you are studying in your class. If a child has a National costume then please encourage them to wear it. Flags of different countries would also be good. Be imaginative as you like!
Materials:
This booklet, words to the songs and information about the festival organisation has been sent to you which you will need to download and bring to the twilight seminar. A CD per school will be given to staff at the twilight seminar or sent into schools if staff are unable to attend the seminar. A powerpoint presentation containing the song words will be sent to you when you have given us a contact email address at the twilight seminar. We have a license from Mechanical Copyright Protection Service MCPS, which means there are no copyright issues with this CD.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to me. Thank you and happy singing!
Anne Clough [email protected] Music Service Tel no: 01934 426430
Years 3 & 4 Raise The Roof Singing Festivals 2017 ‘What A Wonderful World!’
Dates and venues Schools in red means that they haven’t yet booked onto this event as of 6.9.17 Cluster Venues Festival Schools Support visit date & Please date & time The nos. are an time confirm asap estimate-please confirm asap Gordano 1 Portishead Tues 31st Oct St Marys 27 Mon 18th Sept 9.15am TBC 2017 Trinity 120 Mon 18th Sept 10.45am 10am Portishead 150 Mon 18th Sept 1.15pm Gordano 2 St Joseph’s Tues 31st Oct Crockerne 60? Tues 19th Sept 1.15pm TBC (*can 2017 High Down 210 Wed 20th Sept 9.15am we fit in the 1.15pm St Joseph’s 60 Wed 20th Sept 10.45am hall?) Churchill 1 St Andrews Wed 1st Nov Wrington 60 Thurs 21st Sept 9.15am TBC 2017 St Andrews 75 Thurs 21st Sept 10.45am 10am Winford 60 Fri 22nd Sept 9.15am Dundry 30? Fri 22nd Sept 10.45am Churchill 60? Fri 22nd Sept 1.15pm Churchill 2 Banwell Wed 1st Nov Banwell 60 Mon 25th Sept 1.15pm TBC 2017 Blagdon 30? Tues 26th Sept 9.15am 1.15pm Sandford 60? Tues 26th Sept 10.45am Winscombe 60? Tues 26th Sept 1.15pm Clevedon 1 Yeo Moor Thurs 2nd Nov St Nicholas Thurs 28th Sept 9.15am TBC 2017 Chantry 90 10am Yeo Moor 120? Thurs 28th Sept 10.45am Tickenham 20 Fri 29th Sept 10.45am Ravenswood 15? Fri 29th Sept 1.15pm Clevedon 2 St Johns Thurs 2nd Nov St John’s 90 Wed 27th Sept 9.15am TBC 2017 Mary Elton 122 Wed 27th Sept 10.45am 1.15pm All Saints 30? Fri 29th Sept 9.15am Wraxall 26 Tues 3rd Oct 9.15am Kingshill 30/60? Tues 3rd Oct 10.45am Grove 60? Tues 3rd Oct 1.15pm Nailsea 2 Nailsea Fri 3rd Nov Golden Valley 120 Wed 4th Oct 9.15am School. 2017 St Francis 55 Wed 4th Oct 10.45am Confirmed. 1.15pm Backwell 1 Birdwell Tues 7th Nov Northleaze 60 Fri 6th Oct 9.15am TBC 2017 Birdwell 120? Fri 6th Oct 10.45am 10am Flax Bourton 30? Fri 6th Oct 1.15pm Backwell 2 Backwell Tues 7th Nov Backwell 120 Thurs 5th Oct 9.15am Juniors 2017 Court De Wyck 26 Thurs 5th Oct 10.45am TBC 1.15pm Yatton 90 or 120? Mon 2nd Oct 1.15pm Becket 60? Mon 9th Oct 1.15pm Locking 60 Tues 10th Oct 9.15am Heron’s Moor 120 Tues 10th Oct 10.45am Worlebury 60? Tues 10th Oct 1.15pm
Worle 2 St Martins St Martins 180 Wed 11th Oct 9.15am TBC Wed 8th Nov Mendip Green 180 Wed 11th Oct 10.45am 2017 Kewstoke 30? Thurs 12th Oct 10.45am 1.15pm Worle 3 Mead Vale Thurs 9th Nov Mead Vale 120? Fri 13th Oct 9.15am TBC (*can 2017 Milton Park 120? Fri 13th Oct 10.45am we fit in the 10am Worle Village 57 Fri 13th Oct 1.15pm hall?) Worle 4 Castle Thurs 9th Nov St Marks 120 Mon 16th Oct 9.15am Batch 2017 Castle Batch 126 Mon 16th Oct 10.45am TBC 1.15pm St Annes 60 Mon 16th Oct 1.15pm South Corpus Fri 10th Nov Walliscote 90? Mon 9th Oct 9.15am Weston 1 Christi TBC 2017 Corpus Christi 60? Mon 9th Oct 10.45am (*can we fit 10am Christ Church 60 Tues 17th Oct 1.15pm in the hall?) Hutton 60? Wed 18th Oct 9.15am Ashcombe 90 Wed 18th Oct 10.45am South Uphill Fri 10th Nov Uphill 90 Thurs 19th Oct 9.15am Weston 2 TBC 2017 Oldmixon 60 Thurs 19th Oct 10.45am 1.15pm Windwhistle 120 Fri 20th Oct 9.15am Bournville 120 Fri 20th Oct 10.45am
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‘Raise the Roof’ 2017 ‘What A Wonderful World!’
‘What a wonderful world’ Sung by Louis Armstrong. I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world (tune goes up).
I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright, blessed day, the dark, sacred night And I think to myself what a wonderful world (tune goes down).
The colours of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by. I see friends shaking hands saying, “how do you do?” They're really saying, “I love you”.
I hear babies crying. I watch them grow. They'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful world (tune goes up). Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world (tune goes down).
‘Tue Tue’ Traditional Ghanaian folk song. Translation: Sorry senior man. This small boy has made you fall. Sorry.
Tue tue barima tue tue Tue tue barima tue tue Abofra ba ama dawa dawa tue tue (be careful; goes up at end) Abofra ba ama dawa dawa tue tue (be careful: goes down at end) Barima tue tue Barima tue tue
Sounds like: Tu-e, tu-e, ba-ri-ma, tu-e, tu-e x2 A-bo-fra ba a-ma da-wa da-wa tu-e tu-e (be careful; goes up at end) A-bo-fra ba a-ma da-wa da-wa tu-e tu-e (be careful: goes down at end) Ba-ri-ma tu-e tu-e x2
‘Mexican Counting Song’. Count to ten in Spanish, French, and German as well as English! One and two and three, Four and five and six, Seven, eight and nine. I can count to ten.
La la la la la. La la la la la. I can count to ten X2
Uno, dos y tres, Cuatro, cinco, seis, Siete, ocho, nueve. I can count to diez.
La la la la la La la la la la, I can count to diez X2 Un et deux et trois, Quatre et cinque et six, Sept, huit, neuf. I can count to dix.
La la la la la La la la la la. I can count to dix x2
Eins, zwei, drei, Vier, fünf und sechs, Sieben, acht, neun. I can count to zehn.
La la la la la La la la la la. I can count to zehn x2
‘Four white horses’. Traditional Caribbean Four white horses on the river. Hey, hey, hey, up tomorrow. Up tomorrow is a rainy day. Come on and join our shadow play,
Shadow play is a ripe banana. Hey, hey, hey, up tomorrow. Up tomorrow is a rainy day. Come on and join our shadow play.
‘Chocolate molinillo’. Traditional Spanish In Spain this song is popularly known as Corre, corre, que te pillo. A molinillo is a little whisk for whisking drinks such as hot chocolate.
Chocolate molinillo, Corre, corre, que te pillo. Correrás, correrás, Pero no me pillarás. Correrás, correrás, Pero no me pillarás.
‘Eh Memarie’. Traditional. Estonian. Singing game. Eh memarie choo flore. Eh merie eh mera. Chikee tango, chikee tango. One, two, three.
‘Tańczymy labada’. Traditional. Polish. Singing game. Tańczymy labada, Sounds like: Tine-shimmy la-ba-da labada, labada. La-ba-da, la-ba-da Tańczymy labada, Tine-shimmy la-ba-da Śmiesznego walczyka. Shmish-mee-go val-check-ka. Leader: Have we had hands? Group: Yes! Leader: But have we had head? Group: No! Leader: Off we go!
Tańczymy labada… Leader: Have we had hands? Group: Yes! Leader: Have we had heads? Group: Yes! Leader: But have we had shoulders? Group: No! Leader: Off we go!
Tańczymy labada…
Leader: Hands? Group: Yes! Leader: Heads? Group: Yes! Leader: Shoulders? Group: Yes! Leader: But have we had knees? Group: No! Leader: Off we go!
Tańczymy labada…
‘It’s Diwali’. Indian. Hindu. Chorus: Here comes Rama & Sita. Everybody go prepare the lamps. X2
Part 1: It’s time for the lighting of the lamps X3 Part 2: It’s Diwali X3 So ev’rybody go prepare the lamps Go prepare the lamps.
Verse 1: Carnival and celebrations. Making such an atmosphere. We are going to party now. So let’s all give a cheer! Hooray! Chorus. Part 1 & Part 2. Verse 2: Fireworks and flaming torches. Cast their light on everything. Ev’ryone is happy now that Rama is the King! Woo! Chorus. Part 1 & Part 2.
‘One World’. Chorus: This planet consists of lots of different places. Living here are people with different faces. Different languages and different food. Seeing a world like this brightens our mood.
Verse 1: One world, one people living together in harmony. One world, one people, one family.
Chorus.
Verse 2: India, Mexico, Germany, Iran, South Africa, Japan and Russia, Mali, Pakistan. All of these countries are wonderful to see. Where would you like to be?
Chorus. Parts 1 & 2 together. Chorus. Parts 1 & 2 together.