Transition Songs (Welsh National Opera)
for Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1
WNO workshop leaders Emily Rooke and Dalma Sinka have created six brand new transition songs for you to use as part of your school routines from the summer term onwards! Each song has a bespoke backing track and video you can use in the classroom as a teaching video to learn the melody and the Makaton signs that go with it. We hope that you can make use of these to help ease transitions during the school day and embed them into your day to day activities throughout the school year.
In the resource pack we have included some suggestions for how you might like to make use of these songs throughout your normal daily routine with your class but this is not an exhaustive list! There are lots of ways to incorporate song and singing in your day and please feel free to adapt the lyrics of these songs to suit your classroom and activities specifically. We have included a small amount of Makaton signs in the learning videos but we would not expect pupils to be using them while washing their hands or tidying up for example so feel free to use or not use them as appropriate.