Should we start a campaign to bring back singing in school assemblies?

[PaulaYatesBiggestFan]

I LOVE hymn singing and find it very uplifting on the rare occasions i get to do it!

Would it benefit children to bring it back...?

following on from 'The Choir' i feel inspired

Teachers is this possible or just not worth thinking about?

yes, addressed to kbear and yates and anyone I suppose. Pretty incomprehensible to your average child I'd've thought

what do you mean it won;t b e curriculum?

Better yet, come in & run it, why don't you?

I wouldn't mind a jolly sing song in the least, our assemblies are utterly dreary. & it would save HOY having to drone on for 20 minutes about consideration for others...blah blah...football team got stuffed (again)...blah blah...staff car park is out of bounds...blah blah.

Wouldn't impact on the curriculum at all.

However, as I said, I doubt you'd get many takers for the hymns.

i was just thinking raven if i would dare!
i would not mind helping give a school a jump start

but it never stopped us singing them at school and you never seem to forget them, I used to love Thine is the Glory, at Easter and other old favourites. Sing Hosannah, , er.... thinking of wedding hymns, , anyway, love 'em and I think we should keep singing them. It's tradition like!

But it doesn't have to be hymns

Lean on me is fab

Loads of 'pop' songs have a non-religious uplifting message

You're going to ask me for some & I've gone brain dead

He ain't heavy
All you need is love

Maybe not the house of the rising sun tho'

The national curriculum for music requires children to sing - most schools do this in assembly as it is an easy way to begin to meet those requirements.
And it's loads of fun!

Has anyone mentioned those boys' HAIR!

(I loved singing at school. Choir, etc... I go to mass with DH even though I am an atheist just so I can sing the hymns )

i thought that coldplay 'fix you' a good choice

I do play & praise with the tots we have sung Away in the manger every week since Christmas 'cos they like it

But also
Whole world in his hands
Kun by yar (ap?)
Sing Hosanna
Shine Jesus Shine
Old Macdonald
Twinkle

It doesn't really matter what you sing imo

We used to sing the 'Streets of London' and now my mind has gone blank as well. loads of Beatle songs as well.

Mind my primary HT used to play classical music as an 'overture' (he was very keen on the arts) whilst the classes came down before we got down to 60s pop.

but most, ifnot all, primaries do sing, don;t they? Modern, hymn-type and pop songs.

Not sure what happensin secondaries. Imagine some of them stop then.

All schools do Blowin in teh Wind. It's mandatory

how lovely...starts hollering out some songs of praise waking whole house

PYBF, it'd actually be rather fabulous if you did.

But I think you might find it a rather shattering experience - if you came into my school & tried to get them all singing from a cold start, you'd have 800 pairs of eyes giving you the 'what rock has that madwoman crawled out from under?' treatment, I'm afraid.

Maybe offer to help out with the school choir/after school, get them barnstorming something rocky & then to perform it in assembly with a 'sing along' bit?

Singing at school is great. Our DCs sing in school assembly everyday, at church once a week (oh yes, it's a faith school) and in music class. Choir is compulsory in Year 5 and the Infants Christmas play is an hour long musical.

There are plenty of suitable songs for secular/multi-faith schools to sing. But since secondaries are having their lunchtimes slashed, it's unlikely that DfES would think it worth bothering to fit a 3 minute pop song into assembly.

i bet RAven!

MY dd would be one of the ones rolling her eyes

boys would probably be easier!

i loved singing sing hosanah, sing hosanah, sing hosanah to the king of kings.

We sing and we do 'all things bright and beautiful'

lord of the dance
i was tambourinist!

OP, are you my Mum?!! She would soooo back your campaign....

seriously, though, I like singing in assembles as well. Where do I sign up?

Hymns are fine, I'm ok with hymns, but at dds school they do this bizarre kind of 'god rock'. They press play on an ancient tape player and there's this tinny drum machine noise, and then the children have to sing 'I'm a VIP, a very important person, you have to agree!' with YMCA style arm movements. It's weird.

Singing - YES.
Hymns, no.

But group singing to get the lungs working, the spirits up and the group enjoyment tingling is a no brainer and I can't understand why any Head wouldn't see that!
After-school clubs is an entirely differnt thing.

I was horrified by that uncouth Mr Whatsit and his telling-off anouncements sa the sum total of their collective experience.

why not hymns blu? i was an atheist from a very young age but loved singing hymns, very uplifting fot the start of the day.

Oh, I enjoyed singing hyns, we used to bash them out and enjoy them. The ones that suit a good start to a schoolday are very 'anthemic' anyway.

But not hymns in school because being divisive defeats the whole point. Jewish girls used to wait outside the hall and come in for the telling-off announcements bits of our school assembly, and that seemed a terrible shame.

Who could fault 'stand by me' as a community anthem? or 'The World's greatest' etc?