Tag: Scots Song in Schools

Arduthie Primary Hoolie in the Schoolie!

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Weel, I’ve had a fantastic time working on this project with Arduthie Primary School in Stonehaven!

The pupils:

– Created 6 rhymes!
– learned about the plague, crime and punishment, how to play the comb n paper, all about a very important fossil, heard the tale of a ghost and a fishwife and admired the sculptures in the bay
– Created 6 songs!
– Illustrated the songs and some of the rhymes
– Performed our new songs in a concert
– Learned and sang “Jeannie Jenkins” at the concert (P1-3)

And since then, Ewan McVicar and I have been hard at work creating a booklet which arrives today – plenty for the pupils, the schools, the folks at Hands Up For Trads Wee Grants Scheme, The Tolbooth and The Stonehaven Folk Festival!

… and I have been busy creating videos of each song. Aye, I’ll be plaisterin them aa ower the socials in the next few days!

All the songs, rhymes and illustrations are now up on my web site at https://paulinecordiner.co.uk/hoolie-in-the-schoolie-2026/

Hae a look and let me know what you think! 🙂

Teaching Scots Song with SC&T Youth

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This week, and for a further four weeks, I get to do something a little different! 

Rather than storytelling, I’m going to be working as a tutor with SC&T Youth (the tuition for bairns and young adults through Scottish Culture and Traditions). I’ll be teaching a different song to Primaries 3, 4 and 5 (this week it’s Ps 4, 5 and 6) and one song they’ll all sing together. Meanwhile the other wonderful tutors will be teaching them accompaniment on clasarch, guitar and whistle as well as some trad tunes.

This week we’ve been at St Peter’s Primary – and the snow hasn’t dampened the pupils enthusiasm for learning! Here’s a photo taken on Don St yesterday. A beautiful part of town affa bonny in the snaa.

The Primary 4 pupils are learning one of our old favourites –

The P4s are learning our old favourite, The Fisherman’s Lassie. Noo I wis rummaging aboot tae find a video tae show you of someone singing it – totally forgetting that I recorded a wee video of it at Fraserburgh Lighthouse Museum back in… 2016! Which seems an eternity ago 😮

Here’s my version The Fisherman’s Lassie – more on the song tomorrow if I get a chance to post again 🙂