It’s just two weeks now till Mothers Day here in the UK, so we’ve updated our Pinterest page with some great ideas and resources for Mothers Day . Click on the link below for Mothers Day activities, craft ideas, songs and assembly suggestions, for all ages from 2-11.
Click here to visit our Mothers Day Pinterest page.
We have upgraded Our First Easter PLAY and Our First Easter SHOW to now include lead sheets with guitar chords for every song. We’ve also reprogrammed the CD-ROM sections of each CD to make them easier to use, better looking and quicker to load.
We’re very pleased with the results and will be making similar changes to all our other existing CDs over the next year or two.
Existing customers who have verified purchases of either CD can upgrade to the new versions for just £8 per CD. Just go to the product page by clicking on the CD cover images. Then select the option which says, “Extra CD (Exact copy of full priced CD)”. (more…)
Happy Christmas from everyone at Learn2soar. We hope all of your Christmas musicals and nativity performances have gone really well. Please let us know about your success stories and feel free to leave any feedback about our various Christmas productions. We look forward to hearing from you.
We’ve also updated our Christmas Pinterest board with lots of craft ideas to help you through the last week of term.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Learn2soar Music
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You can easily perform a nativity play with even the youngest of children, using Learn2soar Music’s wide range of Early Years nativities. Featuring nursery-rhyme based songs, ultra-simple scripts and many added extras, they offer everything you need to stage a parent-pleasing festive treat.
“The Learn2soar early years nativities are so good. Over the last ten years we’ve used 4 different ones in our day nursery, ‘Our First Nativity’ (One and Two). ‘Our First Christmas Play’ and ‘C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s Spells Christmas’. They’re all so easy to use and are of an excellent quality. We have a very wide range of ages in our day nursery but all the children are able to take part fully and enjoy the songs so much. These nativities really are perfect for very young children. Thank you for all your help and for producing such brilliant material.” A Smith – Day Nursery Owner
“Absolutely fantastic. We’re really pleased with it. My boss said there was no way we were doing a nativity with children as young as two, but now having seen the material she has completely changed her mind. Honestly we are just so chuffed with this CD! Fantastic stuff.” K Payne – Nursery Worker
“Thank you so much for producing ‘Our First Nativity’. This is the third year in a row we’re performing it in our preschool! It’s always extremely popular and get’s great feedback from the parents. The songs and script are so easy to learn even for very young children. We love it!” L Harrison – Preschool Manager
“Excellent – We’ve 20 years experience of nativity plays and this is by far the best that we’ve come across. Well done!” S Marshall – Early Years Teacher
Thanks ‘Teach Early Years’. You can find out more about all these Early Years nativities on our Christmas page here:
https://www.learn2soar.co.uk/christmas-nativity-play-script-songs
Well, there’s no need to look any further than Learn2soar Music’s range of harvest assembly songs and ideas. We have four great harvest CDs/downloads suitable for ages 3-11. Each contains catchy songs, simple scripts and lots of extra fantastic resources:
This truly is a bumper harvest assembly songs and ideas CD/download. With seven songs and dozens of pages of stories and ideas. You have everything you need for a harvest spectacular or split up the material so that you have plenty of songs and ideas for the next several years in a row. Either way it’s fantastic value for money.
What teachers say: “We used this CD with our whole school from Y1 to Y6. Each year group performed a different song, while the script was read/performed by the older children. It went very well indeed. Thank you very much.” – J Crompton – Music Teacher (more…)
As the new academic year dawns upon us, many primary teachers begin to think about a new year of school assemblies. Everyone is looking for something fresh, different, accessible, ready-to-go and easy to use. Well don’t worry, we have you covered. Learn2soar Music has a range of assembly CDs/downloads available. Each title contains much more than just songs and backing music… all our assembly CDs contain multiple assemblies with ideas, notes, stories, talks, prayers, games, quizzes, PowerPoints, etc.
To give you an idea of what to expect we have made two FREE assemblies available. One from ‘Songs 4 Assemblies KS1‘ (ages 3-7) and one from ‘Songs 4 Assemblies KS2‘ (7-11). You’re welcome to print and use these free assemblies any time, any place. Both free assemblies can be downloaded here: (more…)
One of the most common queries we receive about our products is the good old ‘is it religious?’ question. The answer we always give is, ‘yes and no!’ In other words, although most of our school assemblies and children’s musicals contain Christian themes, each script also gives the customer the flexibility to remove religious references altogether, if required. This is because each product contains editable versions of the scripts, with many also containing multiple script variations, including non-religious alternatives. Therefore, even our most Christian assemblies can quickly become non-Christian assemblies if so desired.
However, looking back to when we started in business in the early 2000’s, this issue was a lot more challenging for us. Back then, each one of our assembly CDs and school musicals had just one, un-editable script. Regretably, there was very little flexibility. Therefore after a few years of…
Customer: “Is it Religious?”
Us: “Yes!”
Customer: (Silence as they hang up)
… we were forced to become more flexible, from a financial point of view as much as anything else. (more…)
If you’re starting to make plans but find yourself short of inspiration, don’t panic! On this page you’ll find 10 Leavers’ Assembly Ideas for you to use for free.
Set your class the thrilling challenge of creating their own leavers’ play about an alien spaceship that suddenly lands in the school grounds on their final day at school. Out pops a group of curious aliens who have never seen humans before! They know nothing about feelings, friendship, learning, or even our planet. Wide-eyed and eager, the aliens bombard the children with questions, desperate to understand this strange new world.
The children must become both storytellers and teachers, answering the aliens’ questions by sharing their own memories, experiences, and hopes for the future. Possible alien questions to inspire the play:
Encourage the children to weave these questions into their play, using dialogue, storytelling, and even songs or movement. As they answer, they’ll reveal their own feelings about growing up, leaving school, and stepping into the unknown.
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We’re delighted to announce that Learn2soar Music has now begun placing links to resources and ideas on Pinterest:
To start with we’ve created 4 boards for:
In addition to linking to our most popular products, each board also contains art/craft ideas, printable resources, costume / staging ideas, inspirational quotes / prayers and even one or two recipe suggestions! Over the coming months we hope to keep adding more and more. (more…)
enough to have musicians capable of playing along to an entire children’s musical production. That’s why Learn2soar Music provide professional backing music for each children’s musical we sell, so your cast can sing along karaoke style for a fantastic performance. But what format should you use for the backing music? A CD or a download? Every children’s musical we publish is available in both formats, but we believe downloads are always the best choice and easily win the ‘CDs vs Downloads’ battle. Here are 7 reasons why downloads save time, save money, save hassle and even help save the planet…Are you old enough to remember when the first CDs came out in the early 80s? Manufacturers boldly stated that scratches and dirt would make no difference to the playing quality! Today that claim is almost as laughable as early cigarette advertising which promised ‘amazing health benefits’! How times change…
We’ve all shared the frustration of finding that our favourite disk is suddenly jumping through the best song and when we examine the disk surface, it’s usually the smallest of scuff marks that’s the problem. Let’s face it, a jumping CD is annoying. However, a jumping CD in the middle of a children’s musical performance is an absolute nightmare! Over the years we’ve sadly heard several horror stories of that very event occurring! Fortunately, digital downloads played through a computer, MP3 player or iPod don’t get dirty or scratched and always play perfectly well. (more…)
You may have noticed that we offer very popular ‘Music Man‘ and ‘Pop Star‘ music workshops to UK-based Primary Schools and Pre-Schools. However, did you know that we offer several other unique music workshops, projects and services? We’ve recently updated our Music Workshop Pages and added a new Special Projects page, where you will find full details. Here are some of the highlights…
Our most requested workshop. A mixture of our two most successful music workshops. The most common request is for 2 or 3 hours of Pop Star (songwriting & recording) with ages 7-11, followed by a Music Man session (fun singing & instruments) with Ages 2-6.
Our main composer / managing director Stuart Ross is available to visit your school for a fun Q&A session. He has used these sessions to inspire pupils, discuss how he became a professional songwriter and show how he writes a song or musical. (more…)
LEARN2SOAR MUSIC 2015 NEWS: January 2015
This time last year we revealed plans for 7 new publications, but as the year progressed, we were sadly only able to publish 4 of them. This was because of the huge amount of time and manpower needed to completely overhaul our website. As the new year gets underway, we will still be spending the first few months on major changes to Learn2soar.co.uk, but later in the year we will hopefully be publishing the following exciting new titles…
COOL CAROLS: (Ages 7-11) Traditional carols with a new fun nativity script. This product will be a complete overhaul of our existing Nativity Play ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ (from 2004). All songs are being edited / re-mastered / re-recorded, along with a few new songs and new scripts. Expected September 2015.
NATIVITY PLAY IN ONE DAY: (Ages 5-11) The follow-up to our popular ‘Christmas Play In One Day’. The ultimate time-saver for busy nativity play organisers everywhere. Six simple songs with a simple nativity script enabling you to easily stage a nativity show in just a few hours. Expected late 2015.
Our new look website features some major improvements and changes:
The only downside is that this huge job has taken so long to undertake, that we’ve had to postpone some of our anticipated new releases. Our sincere apologies. However, we did manage to release ‘Our First Nativity 2’ which has been selling like hotcakes! (more…)
Early in 2013 I had an idea for a new nativity play for young children. The premise was simple: a little star who wasn’t very good at shining would be chosen by God to become the brightest star of all, shining over Bethlehem, guiding the wise men to visit the newborn baby Jesus.
I suggested the idea to my teenage daughter, who ran with it. Within a few days she had enterprisingly produced the first draft of what would become: ‘What A Star!’ A nativity play for ages 3-7. In her script, my daughter had introduced the idea of the star going to ‘star-school’, but being the worst in the class at everything, getting teased by other ‘bigger, better stars’ and feeling unhappy at being so small and shy. By the end of the play of course, Leo the little star becomes the biggest, brightest, most important star of all, as he shines over Bethlehem’s stable.
All good and well, but what surprised me most was that my daughter had chosen to give this star a name… Leo! Having written dozens of nativity plays over the years, my first instinct was to change the name or remove it altogether. But then I thought about the significance of this tiny name…
Straight away, I should state that I never read horoscopes, or take any interest in star signs or the zodiac, but I do know that because my birthday is in late July, my star sign is ‘Leo’. Therefore, as I read the first draft of the script, I immediately felt a connection to this little star, who didn’t feel as good as all the larger, older stars in his class.
Back in August 2010 I had one of my better ideas, to create the simplest nativity play possible for very young children, calling it ‘Our First Nativity’. A few months later it went on sale, and we were astounded by the response. It was soon outselling all our other products combined and has now gone on to become our all-time best-selling product by a long way.
It has since spawned a whole host of related early years publications, ‘Our First Harvest’, ‘Our First Easter Play’, ‘Our First Easter Show’, ‘Our First Spring’, ‘Our First Mother’s Day’ and ‘Our First Christmas Play’, all of which have done well in their own right. I had planned to give the ‘Our First’ range a bit of a break, but then last year I had a few very interesting phone conversations… Over the course of a two-week period, I spoke to several customers who all said the same thing, that they had bought ‘Our First Nativity’ when it had first been released and that they loved it SOOOO much that they had decided to re-use it again and again and again, every year without fail! Wow! (more…)
It’s the 1st of August 2014 and over the last week the sun has been smiling and I’ve been baking on a trip to London. Next week, we’re going on an even hotter holiday to the beautiful island of Santorini in Greece… yet through it all, at the back of my mind, I can’t stop thinking about Christmas plays! Welcome to my weird mixed-up world!
I can tell it’s the start of the summer holidays when the first orders for Christmas plays start to come in. Yes, believe it or not, there are a lot of teachers out there, who in their first week of the summer holidays are thinking about where and how they’re going to buy their Christmas plays. I know, some of you are thinking that’s mad, but I call it being amazingly well prepared!
Just in the last week we’ve had good sales for early years Christmas plays, particularly our No. 1 best seller ‘Our First Nativity‘ and our most recent production ‘What A Star‘.
And it’s not just the overly well-prepared teachers thinking about festive productions… at this time of year I can’t help but be consumed by the thought of writing new Christmas plays. We have recording days set for a few weeks’ time to record my new material, so whilst sunbathing on the beaches of Santorini, I’ll hopefully be putting the finishing touches to some of my newest creations, including ‘Our First Nativity 2’. Hopefully, I’ll be able to share more information in the next month. (more…)
It’s that time of year again when year 6 teachers all over the country are thinking about their school leavers assemblies. This year, why not save a lot of time and effort? You can buy a short, straightforward leavers assembly that’s ready-made and ready-to-go!
‘Zooming On’: BRAND NEW
Get the planning for your leavers’ assemblies off to a zooming start with this great new title. Four of our most popular assembly songs have been mixed with a humorous and thought-provoking script. With ready-to-use parts for dozens of pupils, Zooming On Leavers’ Assembly gives you everything you could possibly need for a simple, straightforward leavers’ assembly for ages 7-11.
Buy on CD for £7.99 (+£1.99 P&P) or download now for just £5.99! (more…)
Two years ago, I released a Christmas play titled ‘Away WITH The Manger‘. The play had been lovingly crafted over a long five-year period and had originated from an idea by my 9-year-old daughter. She actually wrote the first few scenes including the first song which goes like this…
“Away with the manger, two robbers stole it,
They were called Bob and Bill and they were both big twits…”
The hilarious story then tells the tale of two bungling burglars who are on the run with a bag of stolen jewels. Through a strange turn of events, the jewels are hidden in the local school’s nativity manger and soon the comical crooks want them back! As the characters stage their school nativity play, mayhem ensues, but one thing is clear… crime doesn’t pay, as the crooks are eventually locked up. The play then finishes with a glorious nativity scene, with Mary, Joseph, Shepherds, Wise Men, etc… reminding the audience of the true reason for the season.
‘Away With The Manger’ was an instant hit and has now been successfully performed in thousands of schools around the world. However, one thing we didn’t realise when publishing it, was that certain British national newspapers had a different agenda… (more…)
It’s nearly Mother’s Day! No, I’ve not gone mad… In the UK Mother’s day is always in March or April, but in the rest of the world, Mothers Day is the second Sunday in May. That’s why I love this time of year. As all our overseas customers buy Mothers Day songs from us and it reminds me of how many corners of the world our music and resources are reaching into. Just in the last few days alone we’ve had sales in the USA, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Italy and even Trinidad and Tobago!
I actually have a list in my desk drawer of all the countries where we’ve ever sold a product. I started it 10 years ago and the list is growing bigger and bigger every year! I made myself a promise that one day I’d visit all those countries, but as the list is now getting so long, I’m not sure it will ever be possible (but I’d like to try)!
One of the main areas of success behind the worldwide appeal of our Mother’s Day songs has been our YouTube Mother’s Day songs videos: https://www.youtube.com/Learn2soarMusic
Between them these videos have now had over 150,000 views. Each video shows images of mothers from a variety of cultures, races and
backgrounds, giving a truly global feel to Mother’s Day.
To find out more about the Mother’s Day songs we have on sale, please click here:
Learn2soar Mother’s Day Songs and Resources
So Happy Mother’s Day to all our overseas customers and I’ll carry on dreaming about visiting all your wonderful countries one day!
On the wall in my office is a wall planner published by ‘Teach Primary’. It contains an extensive list of important dates from many world religions including obvious events like Christmas, Easter, Ramadan and Diwali, as well as more minor dates like All Saints Day and Ash Wednesday. As I was studying the planner recently, I noticed a surprising omission. Palm Sunday was missing! Later, I checked all the other diaries and calendars around our house and found that only one noted that this coming Sunday April 13th would be Palm Sunday.
I believe that Palm Sunday is an important date and shouldn’t be ignored. That’s one of the reasons why I recently published a short Palm Sunday children’s musical: ‘The Donkey’s Tale’, which tells the story of Palm Sunday from the donkey’s point of view. As Jesus entered Jerusalem on a humble donkey, the people shouted ‘Hosanna’, which literally means ‘save us’.
The people of Jerusalem were hoping that Jesus would save them from Roman occupation. Of course, that wasn’t the case, but the reason this story always impacts me is because it reminds me of all the people in our world today who are also shouting ‘save me’…
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: April 2014
Welcome to the new Learn2soar Blog
Hello, I’m Stuart Ross, the main composer and managing director here at Learn2soar Music. Welcome to my new blog.
Below you’ll find a complete record of all our previous monthly news articles stretching back to 2011, and above you’ll hopefully soon find lots of new material, news and articles over the coming months and years…
In the future I intend to use this blog to share new content and ideas for use with children in schools and churches. I’ll also be giving an insight into the background work that goes into writing school songs, musicals and resources, as well as up to date news about new releases and other exciting developments here at Learn2soar.
If you have any ideas for content you’d like to see added, just leave a comment below. (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: February 2014
NEW: ‘Our First Spring’ – songs and play for ages 2-7
Sing-a-long to spring with ‘Our First Spring‘, which can either be used as a fun singing CD, or as a simple musical play suitable for Easter / spring performances! It contains 6 spring songs, all based on nursery rhymes / familiar tunes. Easy enough to rehearse and stage in just a day or two.This product comes with TWO editable, rhyming scripts which tell the story of a newly hatched chick searching for her mother. On her journey she comes across many signs of spring including other friendly newborn animals and a not so friendly big bad wolf! Printable masks are included for every character, so there’s no need to worry about having to sort out costumes.
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: January 2014
NEW: ‘The Donkeys Tale’ – Easter Musical for ages 7-11
EE-Awwwwww! ‘The Donkey’s Tale‘ is a NEW Easter / Palm Sunday mini-musical, perfect for school assemblies or church performances. Little Donkey has never let anyone ride him before. He’s worried because he knows that he’ll have to be ridden very soon. As his mother tries to reassure him, two men called James and John turn up to take the donkey to see someone called Jesus! Little Donkey is about to be thrown in the deep end as he carries Jesus on the first Palm Sunday!
The Donkeys Tale contains 6 catchy songs, along with all the backing music tracks so there’s no need for a pianist. You also receive TWO time-saving scripts, PowerPoints, sheet music and plenty of free added resources. Easy enough to rehearse and stage in just a few days.
For more information please visit The Donkeys Tale page here. (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: December 2013
Exciting NEW products planned for the new year…
We have several new CDs/Downloads in the pipeline:
1. OUR FIRST SPRING: Springtime songs, scripts and resources for Early Years and Infants (Ages 2-7). Expected Jan/Feb.
2. THE DONKEYS TALE: A short simple musical for Easter, telling the story of the donkey that carried Jesus into Jerusalem. (Ages 7-11). Expected Jan/Feb.
3. ZOOMING ON: A new primary school leavers assembly CD. (Ages 10-11). Expected May/June.
4. OUR FIRST NATIVITY 2: A second volume of our best selling product ever. (Ages 2-5). Expected Sept/Oct.
Disclaimer: All of the above mentioned products are planned for release during 2014. However, there is no guarantee that any of them will be released within this time frame. (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: November 2013
NEW: Christmas Play In ONE DAY! For Ages 7-11
We have a new CD/Download out, just in time for the busy run up to Christmas. The ultimate time saver for busy teachers… ‘Christmas Play In One Day‘ does what it says on the tin. It provides you with a fun instant, ready to use Christmas play for ages 7-11. It has two editable scripts and 6 easy to learn songs, all available for instant download at just £9.99 with no performance licence required.
Christmas Play In ONE DAY includes a playscript titled ‘The Santa Trap’. This humorous play is set the night before Christmas and tells of Santa’s secret visit to deliver presents to a children’s hospital. But things don’t go to plan as the children trap him and beg him to use his magic to grants their Christmas wishes!
Click here to learn more about ‘Christmas Play In ONE DAY’! (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: October 2013
‘The Real Saint Nick’, Re-branded as ‘Christmas Around The World’
One of our most popular products has just had a makeover! ‘The Real Saint Nick’ has been re-branded with a new look and a new title. It’s now ‘Christmas Around The World: The Real Saint Nick‘. The contents of the product are more or less the same, but as a response to customer requests, we’ve renamed and re-branded this product to make the subject of the production much clearer. Here’s what a few teachers have had to say about it:
So good: “Every year we buy a learn2soar Christmas play with a pack of rehearsal CDs. We did ‘The Real Saint Nick’ two years ago. The songs and scripts are SO GOOD! And with all the extra free stuff that’s included it’s such great value. Great service too. Thank you.
Amazing: “The Real Saint nick is an amazing play! We did it last year and the parents and children just loved it! I really would recommend it to anyone.”
For further details visit the product page here: Christmas Around The World: The Real Saint Nick (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: September 2013
NEW: ‘What A Star’ – Nativity Play for Ages 3-7
Out now, What a Star tells the enchanting story of Leo the little star who is shy and not very good at shining. But despite his size, Leo is still given a really important job to do, over a big town called Bethlehem! Can he pull it off? What a Star is suitable for ages 3-7. It contains two different editable, rhyming scripts. A fun play script with dozens of parts and a simple narrators’ parts only script for younger children. With 9 catchy, easy-to-learn songs, this is sure to become a favourite in many Early Years / Infant departments around the world.
For more information please visit the What a Star page by clicking HERE! (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: August 2013
It’s summer, but it’s our Harvest products that are HOT!
Yes, it’s August! Most people’s favourite month of the year… summer holidays, sun, sea, relaxation. Surely it’s not a time to be thinking about school matters? Or is it? Every year we are staggered at the amount of sales we make during August! It seems that most of you teachers are so dedicated that you’re doing your planning and purchasing on the beach! And at the moment what’s hot isn’t the deck chair, but our range of harvest CDs and downloads.
Each one is ready-to-use with harvest songs and scripts and contains everything you need for a wonderful harvest assembly. Download now from as little as £5.99. (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: July 2013
Looking back over 10 amazing years!
It’s party time here at Learn2soar Music as we celebrate our 10th birthday! But where on earth have the last 10 years gone? Our managing director Stuart Ross says:
“When I think back to the summer of 2003 and what little we started learn2soar with, it’s a miracle that we have grown so much. My secondment as a music advisor had come to an end and I had a choice to either go back to my old job of being a primary school teacher (which I loved doing) or starting a new business producing music for schools. The business idea won and the rest is history… well sort of.
It’s a miracle we got through those first few years. At that time my wife was between jobs herself and we had 2 young children. We put the mortgage on hold, tightened our belts, prayed a lot and just scraped by! Only having five titles on sale at the time didn’t help and it was only by providing a high volume of school workshops, along with a grant from the Arts Council, which helped us to live from day to day.
As I was gradually able to produce more and more titles each year, the sales grew and the real turning point came in 2007 when I produced…
‘C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas For Juniors’.
… The glowing feedback from schools was like nothing we’d ever seen before. It was simply overwhelming and then the icing on the cake was when the BBC broadcast a large section of it over the Christmas holidays. The following year, sales went through the roof and have been growing steadily ever since. One thing we’re particularly proud of is that we’ve never used a bank loan or overdraft. We only ever spend what we take in, never go into debt and give regularly to charity. It’s not the way most businesses work, but it’s really worked well for us!
We estimate that we’ve now supplied music to around 40% of the UK and Ireland’s schools and we regularly sell to customers in about 40 countries around the world. Hopefully over the next 10 years we can see Learn2soar… soar even higher!”
To all our customers, friends, family, supporters, helpers… thank you soooo much for all your love, support and encouragement over the years! (more…)
LEARN2SOAR NEWS: June 2013
Junior Assembly Songs Remix & New Assembly Material
Songs 4 Assemblies KS2 was originally written and recorded back in 2004. Since then a lot of things have changed and some of the assembly themes clearly needed altering, particularly the assembly about Lance Armstrong being a good role model!!! We have therefore edited and rewritten some of the assembly scripts and while we were remastering the CD, we also took the opportunity to either remix or re-record every song on the album. We’ve also added PowerPoint words and redesigned the CD ROM section. All in all, this CD has been given a serious polish and we’re sure you’ll love the results!
If you purchased the previous version of this product (purchased before June 2013) and would like to upgrade, then download customers can do so for free, just email us at info@learn2soar.co.uk with the details of your previous order. If you purchased the CD version, then upgrade by purchasing the £6 ‘EXTRA CD’ option from the drop down on the ‘Songs 4 Assemblies KS2’ page.