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AIBU to play the main Star Wars theme, (and A Whole New World, and the Can Can.) to a bunch of Y3-5 girls? Would they know it? DH says they would't.

They would't recognise it = iabu
They would recognise it = ianbu

IANBU- your Yr 3- 5 primary yr group girls will know these. They will have been played at home ,parties, after sch friends play, at sch in class at xmas, halloween disco, elder sibling. . etc. These songs will be very familiar to KS1 and KS2 children generally.

The Can Can- personally no. Never included in sch settings. I have 2 grown up DC and work in a sch. Somehow the jaunt of the Can Can has never featured. Very popular in my day (70's & 80's) not worth it now in modern times,rightly for all it's associated connotations.

Perhaps a 1980's style innocent group "Jingo " caterpillar on the floor?

When we had to make a playlist for Y3 (7-8 year olds) recently the requested songs were:

Dance Monkey - Tones and I
Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
Blinding Lights - The Weekend
Roar - Katy Perry
This is Me - Greatest Showman
Somebody You Loved - Lewis Capaldi
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Shotgun - George Ezra
Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars

Not sure how easy it would be for you to learn any of those!

Oh yes sorry I thought aged 3-5 didnt see the y 3-5.Defo star wars, my ds took up brass when hearing star wars on brass. Frozen, moana or encanto. Harry Potter. Jungle Bells type Christmas songs.

If you can get a version of Baby Shark, you'll have instant recognisation and lots of groaning!

Oooooooo - Let it Go!!!

If your sch are asking- you need to ensure that you have the read the lyrics and any possible connotations, that any music you play may involve.

We ( sch) had a halloween Disco last term, took us 2 full weeks to vet all the songs we eventually played.

Then we had to start again for KS1 and KS2 xmas dinner lunch soundtrack!

Music is minefield now!

Baby shark -

Some will, some won't.
I wouldn't recognise it. It really isn't age based.

Defo babyshark and Let it Go.

I don’t think my 9yo has heard the can can but she would definitely recognise the others

My DD is 9 and would know all those songs

My dd are 7 and 9.

They would not know it. They haven't seen Star Wars and have no interest in that kind of thing.

My dog, he can do the can can,
better than the cat can, but my goldfish finds it very difficult.
Oh, my dog, he can do the can can, better than the cat can, but my goldfish finds it very hard.

My 10yos would recognise all of those. We love watching films together and they do dance. Probably only introduced Star Wars and of year 4.

My 9yo DD would only know AWNW, I'm afraid.

DD y5/age 10 would only recognise Star Wars.

I've just seen you'll be doing an activity with them at school. One of the things I really like about my DD's Music lessons at school is they get introduced to lots of different music. They are doing the Beatles at the moment. I don't think it matters if they know the tune or not - it will still be pretty amazing hearing the Star Wars theme played for them!

Ah sorry, misread. Not age 3/4, year 3/4. If it's an introduction to brass then star wars is a good one, it's one they can learn pretty early on.

Or James bond theme and somewhere over the rainbow. Also Hedwigs theme from Harry Potter.

Mine wouldn't (year 3 and 5). Something from Zombies, Greatest Showman or some Katy Perry definitely...although 8yo fave song at the moment is Fill Me In by Craig David

My 9 year old wouldn’t know.

We used to have a group that came into school to do similar but on strings.

The Simpsons theme tune
Mission impossible
Simple nursery rhymes always went down well

How about the pink panther theme?

No for my 9 yr old. Anything Disney would be a yes, plus Greatest Showman, Harry Potter tune, Baby Shark plus some tween pop like Katy Perry.