One Voice Song Bank

The songs on this page are the result of a Youth Music funded, SEND song writing project called One Voice which was delivered by BYMT in 2019. The project worked with 286 Bromley children and aimed to deliver inspiring singing, song writing and performance experiences for children with SEND, develop new resources, deliver training and establish a network for SEND teachers.

Evaluation from Sound Connections demonstrated that the project had developed the children’s musical skills, increased their self-confidence and team working, and increased the self-confidence and ability of non-specialist SEND staff to deliver music education.

Click to see the full report here

Some of the feedback from One Voice participants

“I like making up my own songs and then singing them”.

“You can just sing perfectly, so that’s what I did with friends”

One Voice Project Songs

Every Special Provision in Bromley wrote a song facilitated by Jane Wheeler, Mohan Dhur and Abbi Asante of Living Song CLC

Topic songs

Dinosaurs
Electricity
Heroes
It’s My Body
Me Myself and I
Nature
River
Rumble in the Jungle
Transport
We like Castles

Seasonal songs

Celebration
Our Christmas Song
Seasons

Songs inspired by books

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Gingerbread Man
The Day the Crayons Quit
The Tempest
Tuesday
Under the Sea

Songs about Feelings

Griffins Be Brave
If you Wanna Do Something
Then I Feel Fine
Water Club
You Can Do It

To access the resources for these songs please click here.

Each song has lyrics, sheet music, backing and rehearsal tracks, Makaton vocabulary and video.

How you can use these songs at your school

Although the songs were written in partnership with SEND settings, often with specific interests in mind, they are also suited to KS1 and KS2 mainstream classes. If they are not quite right for your class, change the words, adapt them as you see fit!

Be Brave Little Penguin

The next group of songs formed part of an Inspire event for the launch of the One Voice Song writing project. They were written to be performed alongside a reading of the book Be Brave Little Penguin by Giles Andreae.

Click here for Be Brave Little Penguin

These songs are included by kind permission of the author Giles Andreae.

We would like to extend our thanks to everyone involved in the One Voice Project

Special Provisions from: Alexandra Infant School, Burnt Ash Primary School, Churchfields Primary School, Crofton Infant School, Darrick Wood Infant School, Darrick Wood Junior School, Green Street Green Primary School, Harris Primary Academy Orpington, Hawes Down Primary School, James Dixon Primary School, Midfield Primary School, Pickhurst Academy, Poverest Primary School, Raglan Primary School, Trinity CE Primary School and Tubbenden Primary School

Credits – One Voice Project Songs

Backing tracks and sheet music: Claire Brock
Makaton videos: Kirstie Byrne, Sarah Williams
Rehearsal tracks: Bishop Challoner School, Crofton Junior School, Hawes Down Primary School, James Dixon Primary School, Marian Vian Primary School, St Mark’s CE Primary School, Unicorn Primary School and Worsley Bridge Primary School

Credits – Be Brave Little Penguin