Join Nigel Pilkington and Suki - the ship's monkey - as they set sail in search of buried treasure…and enjoy plenty of songs along the way!
Sun, sea and song! is a music series based around the theme of the sea and can be used to support the KS1 topics The Seaside, Under the Sea and Pirates.
There are seven sea-themed songs to learn, including a number of traditional favourites, and each song is accompanied by a music activity, an episode of a traditional story and a piece of listening music to evaluate.
Full details in the Teacher's Notes.
Episodes
1. The big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh. collection
Join Nigel and Suki for a musical sea adventure in search of treasure.
2. There's a hole in the bottom of the sea. collection
Nigel and Suki continue their adventure...and Suki tries to catch a stowaway frog!
3. My ship rolls over the ocean. collection
Nigel and Suki are caught in a storm at sea and Suki is scared of the lightning.
4. Suki over the ocean. collection
Nigel and Suki row towards Golden Island...and try some fishing.
5. A sailor went to sea, sea, sea. collection
Nigel and Suki find a cave on Golden Island...and wonder whether to go inside.
6. When I was one I sucked my thumb. collection
Nigel and Suki enter the cave and find a treasure chest...and a skull and crossbones!
7: Song medleys. collection
Vocal and backing track medleys of all the songs
8. Nigel's warm-up. video
Join in with Nigel's short vocal warm-up
Audio downloads. podcast
Download the content as audio (mp3)
Resources
document
Click to go to the Teacher's Notes (pdf)
Teacher's Notes (pdf)
The Teacher's Notes include:
- information and guidance on using the content
- the lyrics of the songs
- the music sheets
- outline drawings to print and colour in
- curriculum links and objectives
- links to all the content online if you are connected to the internet
Information and guidance
Sun, sea and song! is an entirely flexible resource - you may wish to learn just one of the songs with your group or you can put the songs together to make your own performance.
The song tutorials - featuring Nigel and Suki - have a narrative progression over the content pages. They start with Nigel and Suki departing on a sailing ship, in search of treasure on Golden Island. In subsequent tutorials their journey takes them over the ocean and when they finally arrive at Golden Island they locate what they think is the treasure - and are then chased away by pirates!
On each of the content pages you'll find:
The tutorial. Join Nigel Pilkington and Suki the monkey aboard the Jolly Jack to learn the song. The tutorials cover musicelements from each song and are approximately 8 minutes long.
The song - full vocal. This offers a karaoke-style video of the song, sung by a choir of children, with the lyrics appearing on screen. Each song is approximately 2 to 3 minutes long.
The song - backing track. Once your group has practised singing with the vocal version they can polish their performance bysinging with the backing track only.
The music activity. Nigel dons the captain's hat for the activity, which is based on the music of the song. These videos include a key element of the music learning offered by the series. They are 2 to 3 minutes long and the children will need to be ready to join in with Nigel’s instructions.
A story episode. Each story has three episodes. The episodes are approximately 4 minutes in length. NB: the story episodesare audio with scrolling text - so prime your group for careful listening!
Listening music. This video offers a short extract of music - based on a water / sea theme - for pupils to consider andevaluate. The videos are about 1 minute long.
Supporting resources. Files to download including the song sheets to print and distribute, the music sheets and outline drawings to colour in.
