What were your favourite....

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School Hymns?!

On the back of a recent thread about religious teachings in UK schools it made me think back of when I was at primary and the songs we sang in assembly!

I'm not at all religious but I do look back fondly on belting out some classics between the ages of 5 & 11!

Personally, my favourites were

'who built the arc - NOAH NOAH'
'peace is flowing like a river'
'Dance Dance wherever you may be'

I also cant listen to a class of reception aged babies singing 'it was on a starry night' without crying!

What were your favourites?!

Thank you 😊

Yes the boys would sing the ''she said'' bit all low pitched against the high pitch of the girls with all the rest lol

I watched it recently and it really bought back some great memories.
As a previous poster said its a shame most schools don't do communal singing anymore in assembly. My children's primary and secondary still sing in assembly which I really like. My secondary child came home the other day and told me excitedly that they'd some a particular hymn in assembly ( I can't remember what it was).
I also like that they sing some of the same ones i did as well.

As well as the ones already mentioned:

You Shall Go out With Joy (The Trees of the Field)

On Tiptoe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pveuaLcLOws

This one makes me cry as it really takes me back. So much time has passed since then and some of our teachers and several of the children are no longer here.

Kum by yah - or whatever it was... not a clue what I was singing about but loved it anyway.

Sing hosannah was a personal favourite though. You could really let yourself go for this one... happy days!

At primary school- Sing Hosanna and Away in a Manger.
At secondary school- God is Our Strength and Refuge and The Charterhouse Carol.

Lord of the dance
Hark the herald
Oh come all ye faithful
The one about glory in exchelsus

My favourite hymn is
Bring flowers of the rarest ( Catholic school always sang it l around may day)
I'm.not if theu are actual hymns buy we sang them in infants
If I was a butterfly
God made the sun it shines onme ,God made the sun and God made me.

Isn't Sing Hosanna the chorus to give me oil in my lamp?

I love that Bex had it at his wedding and danced as only he can .
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Autumn days absolute classic
also one about the ink is black the page is white together we learn to read and write
and colours of day

think it was come and praise hymn book

I remember the little donkey one differently to everyone I've mentioned it to.

"Clip clop, dear little donkey."
Then something about eating hay every day? I've never been able to find it but I loved singing it in primary school.

If I were a Butterfly, I'd thank you Lord, for my fine wings

Angels from the realms of glory
Wing your flight oer all the earth
He who sang creator's story
Now proclaim Messiah's birth
Glo-o-o-o-o-o....ria

This was our school
hymn book. I remember it so well.

Onward Christian soldiers
glory glory hallelujah
At the name of Jesus
Sing Hosannah
Jesus bids us shine

I listen and I listen

Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory Glory with actions

A lot already mentioned but I also loved the old rugged cross and how great thou art

@Flippercanorious
Is it
I cannot come to the banquet, don't bother me now
I have married a wife, I have bought me a cow
I have fields and commitments that cost a pretty sum,
Don't bother me now, I cannot come

Having been the one teaching the songs and leading Hymn Practice every week for many years, I do miss singing every day!

Autumn days!

Oh Jesus I have promised

Lord of all hopefulness

Oh we didn’t have all of these but I remember that one from primary

I have seen the golden sunshine
I have watched the flowers grow
i have listened to the songbirds
and there’s one thing now I know
They were all put there for us to share
By someone so divine
And if you’re a friend of Jesus (clap clap clap clap)
You’re a friend of mine

We never had the Martha Mary one

GOOOOOO tell it on the mountain...

Over the hills and everywhere....

GOOOOOO tell it on the mountain...

That jesus Christ is born

So so many, I can still sing literally hundreds of them. Having recently returned to singing in a church choir I am amazed at how many I do remember.

it’s interesting that I can guess who is younger / older / same age as me from the hymns you’re listing 😊

Yes!!! I just couldnt bring it to mind last night! Thanks

I bind unto myself today
The something of the Trinity
By invocation of the same
The three in one and one in three

Where have all the flowers gone always made me super sad.

Not sure it's a hymn but we sang it

Also the ink is black the chalk is white together we learn to read and write