Sparkyard is a subscription service from Out of the Ark Music. With Sparkyard you will:

• Have access to nearly 1000 songs written by award-winning writers. You’ll find a song for every mood and occasion, and you’ll have a thousand reasons to sing!

• Get a flexible, skills-based music curriculum, so you can be sure to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum for music in your own teaching style, at your class’s pace.

• Benefit from thousands of ideas, activities and teaching tips to help you use music to support every curriculum area, and harness the power of music to boost academic performance.

• Be able to send songs home, so children can sing with familiar software wherever they are. No more printing off lyric sheets that get lost in the bottom of book bags!

• Discover a fantastic, unified approach to music and singing in your school, helping students and staff to feel connected.

• Be able to choose from a large range of ready-to-go, topic- and values-based assemblies, helping you to promote wellbeing and school community.

We’re so excited to give you access to the entire Out of the Ark song bank (excluding nativities and musicals) with a Sparkyard free trial or subscription. With over 1000 songs to choose from, discoverability is key. Once you log in, you can use the search bar to search for any song, topic, theme, value or lyric. Or you can use our helpful filter to discover songs to suit your need. Sparkyard includes all of the songs from the following series:

• Songs for EVERY Series

• My World

• S!ng 

• That’s What I Call A Class Assembly! 

• Out of the Ark ESSENTIALS 

• Song & Story 

• The Niki Davies Collections

• Seasonal Series

• Curriculum Crunchers

• Pictures, Poems & Percussion

• This Is Me

• Chantons Tous Les Jours

• Sunday’s Cool Series

Sparkyard also includes a collection of single songs written specifically for key events or celebrations, such as The National Anthem and Remembrance Day.

PLUS, once you have a Sparkyard subscription you can add all of your purchased Out of the Ark nativities and musicals to take advantage of all of Sparkyard’s features when rehearsing for your performances.

Sparkyard allows you to really harness the power of singing to make a positive difference in your organization. With Sparkyard you can:

• Discover thousands of reasons to sing. Sparkyard has something to suit every school, classroom, occasion, theme or subject. You might be looking for a song to revise a maths concept, to celebrate Christmas, to help set your class’s mood ready for learning, or just to say hello in the morning – Sparkyard can help!
 

• Confidently deliver music lessons. Sparkyard’s innovative music curriculum is skills-based, flexible and easy to deliver. Follow along step-by-step or use your own knowledge and expertise to choose lesson plans and adapt them to suit your class and teaching style.
 

• Combine songs, guides and ideas in a way that suits you. You know your class best! By creating your own playlists and favouriting your most used songs and resources, you can tailor Sparkyard to your teaching. Plus, all your favourites can be accessed quickly.
 

• Create collections. Keep all your favourite songs, playlists, resources, videos etc. in one easy-to-access place. Create separate collections for different classes, concerts, subject areas and more. You can even share your collections with colleagues.
 

• Send songs home. Sharing songs with pupils and their families at home is really easy with Sparkyard and you’ll know that they can access the same quality of songs at home as they do in school. No more printing off lyric sheets to get lost in the bottom of book bags, and why not set a maths song as homework to reinforce your classroom learning?
 

• Deliver thoughtful and engaging assemblies. Values-based, ready-to-go assembly plans mean that you can deliver impactful assemblies easily and confidently, and most assemblies come with several song-choice options.
 

• Support learning in every curriculum area. Songs help facts to stick, but they’re also powerfully effective at gearing the brain up for learning and improving memory. They also make learning fun, and children engage better when they’re having fun, and in turn this helps them to remember key information!
 With thousands of songs and resources addressing almost every subject, theme and concept, Sparkyard will allow every teacher in your school to harness the power of singing and music to improve academic performance in their class.
 

• Investigate ways of making learning relevant and accessible. Multi-sensory approaches to learning can benefit ALL learners. With Makaton and British Sign Language videos for a number of songs, Sparkyard can help you demonstrate positive role models for ALL learners.
 

• Be free to plan at a time, and in a way, that suits you. Sparkyard is fully optimized for use on mobile, tablet, desktop and whiteboard, so you can plan and sing wherever you have an internet connection!

Our music curriculum covers the statutory National Curriculum for England and satisfies a wealth of suggestions made in the Model Music Curriculum (non-statutory).

The curriculum in Sparkyard exceeds the breadth and ambition of the MMC, while allowing you the flexibility to adapt to the specific needs of the children in your school.

You can see our in-depth content coverage, key learning and skills overview document on the Music Curriculum page within Sparkyard.

We have also attached the overview here for your information – take a look at the skills progression pages where you can look at progression through a particular strand of the National Curriculum (e.g. composing) or by year group. We will be producing some detailed Model Music Curriculum mapping in the future.

Sparkyard works best when it’s used across the whole school, not just in music lessons. Our own research, backed up by many other studies, shows that fully integrating singing across the school day – from the classroom to the lunchtime queue and the playground – can see measurable increases in pupil self-confidence, as well as improved performance in maths, English and much more. Sparkyard also offers a complete skills-based music curriculum that anyone can deliver.

By integrating Sparkyard into every part of school life, everyone can harness the true potential of singing:

• Improving mental health and wellbeing

• Improving pupil relationships and getting on with each other

• Developing speech and language skills – improving communication, vocabulary and listening

• Helping to establish class and school identity

• Improving academic attainment by using songs as a tool to improve children’s memory for information, as well as creating a good learning environment

• Helping reinforce routines throughout the day

• Influencing mood and attention in the classroom and using songs as an effective tool for classroom management.

Plus, Sparkyard has been carefully and thoughtfully designed to be accessible by everyone working in a school. Sparkyard just works, whether you are a music specialist or someone who has no musical training at all.

For that reason, many schools use a wider budget than just the music budget to purchase Sparkyard – its impact can be seen all over the school (and beyond!).

We know that every organization is different, and therefore we don’t have a one-size-fits-all price. Hop on over to our pricing page to find out more or to BUY NOW.