People Who Help Us Level: Key Stage 1 - Songs & chants

Driving Our Police Car (tempo)

This song has tempo changes and it's also great fun as a stimulus for drama. Here's the first lesson on the song:

In the second lesson I asked Samuel to play the drum and look what happened - the other children spontaneously tapped the pulse on their police helmets!

Tempo Changes

In the third lesson we chose colored scarves to be the siren going round and round and practised changing tempo for verse 2!

Our Performance of Driving Our Police Car

A performance can be for anyone, even a video camera! You can see what we did with the scarves and we also added a burglar-builder who stole a brick, for a bit of drama. Our tempo changes were great!

• Driving our police car round and round
• Making sure the people are safe in town
• The we get a call, an emergency
• Twenty miles away there's a burglary
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• Whooooeeeee! (siren sound)
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• On the motorway, on the motorway (sing faster)
• Speeding along on the motorway
• If it starts to rain, we can't drive so fast (sing slower)
• But we'll still catch that burglar at last (sing faster)
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Be Kind

A song with a character-development message for everyone about how we can be the people who care and help.

• Doesn't matter if you're big or small
• Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor
• You can be anything so make up your mind
• Make up your mind to be helpful and kind
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• Let's help our friends and mum and dad
• Let's be kind to animals or they'll be sad
• Be kind to sisters and brothers too
• Then you will find they are kind to you
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• ©Music-Playtime at Arts Enterprise Limited