Extraordinary!

Extraordinary! celebrates children’s uniqueness, one of their greatest strengths. It is a 20 minute song cycle written by the writers of Stardust, Jools Scott and Sue Curtis, and forms a school singing and wellbeing project to help children to understand their individuality and potential to achieve great things.

Photos by Martin Tompkins

Video clips by SunflowerBath.com

Project Delivery: Magical Hats

Hats form the connecting link within the song cycle allowing the children to express their uniqueness through magical hats and giving them a familiar and exciting metaphor.

The project is for children in Years 2-5, with up to 250 participants from 3-7 schools. Each school receives 10 weekly 1-hour workshops, where children form a choir, learn fun songs with movement, and engage in activities. The songs are catchy, simple, and cover various dance and musical styles, designed to be both fun and inspirational.

At the end of the project, the children come together for a celebratory performance of Extraordinary! with professional band. The performance is an opportunity to shine a light on the uniqueness of children.

Find out about all upcoming projects featuring Extraordinary! on our Events page here:

Events

Our Extraordinary! Album

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Past Extraordinary! Performances

Children singing on a stage in a beautiful abbey with stained glass windows.

Extraordinary! Party in the City 2025

150 children gave a dazzling opening performance to Bath Festival’s Party in the City, singing to a packed Bath Abbey.

Extraordinary! Wiltshire Music Centre 2023

250 children took to the stage and performed to sell out audience on two nights including special guests Lady Lansdowne and the High Sheriff of Wiltshire.

Extraordinary! Bath Abbey 2023

On 29th and 20th June, 250 children came together for the premiere of Extraordinary! in Bath Abbey. Conducted by George Bevan and accompanied by professional musicians, the children put on a fantastic performance to a full abbey.

Schools resources

Find school resources here

To find out more, please get in contact with Tessa Armstrong at contact@voicesforlife.org.uk

Robert Drewett DL, The High Sheriff of Somerset

Extraordinary! so well sums up the experience on Friday evening.  Yet another magical performance from all of the children that you had recruited from around the Bath area!  As with Stardust the level of confidence that had been achieved by the children was truly impressive and it brought home the breadth of experience and expertise in your team at Voices for Life. I remain very much in awe of all that you have achieved in such a short period of time and look forward to following the progress of the charity

Class Teacher

I just wanted to pass on a big thank you to everyone involved with Voices for Life the children at St Andrew’s had such an amazing time last week.

The children are desperate to sing one of their songs for the Leavers assembly the last week of term.

Extraordinary was commissioned by Voices for Life in 2022 and is written by Jools Scott and Sue Curtis with concept and workshop design by Sue Curtis and Tessa Armstrong.