Hoolie in the Schoolie 2026

A songwriting project at Arduthie Primary School, Stonehaven funded by Hands Up For Trad. A follow up to Ewan McVicar and Christine Kydd’s Ceilidhmakkers project in 3 Stonehaven schools in 2013.

Photos for Ewan to add to the booklet – this page will self distruct in…. ach no. It winna. Ah’ll jist rewrite it!

FIRST AFF – THE SONGS!

P5BB – Illustrations for the World Comb n Paper Championship Song!

Photos include – the performers on stage, the winners, the judges, the granny that won, many lovely drawings of the man dressed up as a lobster! I have SO many favourites!

P5M – Illustrations for “The Fishwife and the Ghost”

The pupils loved the idea of a naughty lad getting dressed up in his mithers sheets and being clobbered by a fishwife!

P6T – Illustrations for “The Plague Stone Song”

The pupils LOVED the idea of Plague Doctors! I’m a fan of the plague victim with the buboes in the oxters – and the variety of rats are wonderful! I love the drawings of the plague stones themselves.

ILLUSTRATIONS FOR RHYMES

P5M wrote a poem about a seagull who’s not happy about the “Don’t Feed The Gulls” signs down at the bay.