Here are some rap beginnings I used to use to inspire my children started. Working in small groups the children created their own verses using knowledge learnt in class work and performed and accompanied their work using classroom instruments for their peers. The pride on their faces was a joy to see and they remembered facts they may not have for a long time to come. Hope you find these rap beginnings useful in your history lessons and what's more they... read more

It was always my dream that class teachers used my funkee music songs to aid learning in other subjects, but as anyone who has worked in a school knows... teachers are under such pressure to get results that this rarely happened. In the days when schools did assemblies regularly some of my songs featured and occasionally nowadays at end of topic celebrations a song is squeezed in, but wouldn't it be wonderful if every new topic was introduced with a... read more

Here's an alternative to singing 'We Three Kings' on the feast of the Epiphany. My children loved singing it especially when the song splits into two parts. Hope you enjoy it. read more