Category: Creative Writing

Lady Gaga Meets a Mummy

14/9/2015

I have recently written a new song for Miss McLean's Primary 5 class at St. Benedict's Primary School, Glasgow. It is about the process of mummification and uses the melody from 'Row, Row, Row, Your Boat', making it very simple and easy to learn.

Wash, wash, the bo-dy.
(the) Brain comes out the nose.
Mum-mu-ma, mum-mu-ma, mum-mi-fi, -ca-tion.
This is how it goes.

Take out liv-er, lungs.
Sto-mach, in-tes-tines.
Put them all in to the can-op-ic jars.
(to) Keep them all pri-stine.

Leave the bo-dy in
Salt then wrap up tight.
Place it all in to a sar-coph-a-gus.
(In)side it’s dark as night.

Then they placed it all.
In a tomb be-low.
Mum-mu-ma, mum-mu-ma, mum-mi-fi, -ca-tion.
This is what we know.

(*Words in brackets are inserted before the main beats in the melody.)

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Creeping, Creeping, Killer Cat

21/3/2015

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I found some of the lyrics that the Primary 4 pupils wrote when they were studying the 'Killer Cat' by Anne Fine. They were using the book to explore creative writing so I lead some music sessions where we wrote our own lyrics to the tune of 'Twinkle, Twinkle'. We explored the different characters of the cats in the book and used alliteration (Killer Cat) and onomatopoeia when writing our lyrics to add musical effect.

Using a well-known tune like 'Twinkle, Twinkle' let the children focus on the creative writing but also meant that the song was easy to perform and easy for the other groups to learn when putting the whole song together. Once the song was written we choreographed different movements to match the lyrics.

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Fun & Games.

In addition to playing the bassoon Thomas also enjoys working with children in music sessions and education workshops.

This year he has been working in Oakgrove Primary School with the Primary 4 class exploring music around Anne Fine's book 'The Killer Cat'.

Here you can find a collection of some of the materials I have written for these sessions as well as some of the music games we played.

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Lady Gaga Meets a Mummy

Creeping, Creeping, Killer Cat

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