29/11/2025
As an education lecturer involved with The Morecambe Bay Curriculum and a geographer at heart, I organised a Morecambe Bay inspired song writing session with Y6 children at Sandylands Primary School last year - one of the songs in particular really captured people's attention and I decided to record it and make a video with a band I play in. I thought you might like to see how place-based learning can inspire song-writing. All the lyrics were written by the children and I think they are a wonderful representation of the bay and their relationship with their place in the world. We used a collection of photographs and a discussion of personal experiences to inspire children's thinking as part of a Glastonbury Festival day organised by this highly creative school. Working with myself and 3 local singer songwriters we then created songs based on the children's lyric suggestions. It was wonderful to frantically work to add tunes to their lyrics during lunchtime, then being able to sing them 'their' songs immediately after lunch which the children thought was amazing. I thought you might like to see the results and I'll be using this in my geography lectures as an example of cross-curricular learning with Geography and creative writing.
A jaunty little number from Lancaster band Hiroshima Tw***ie, with lyrics written in collaboration with Y6 children from Sandylands Primary School in Morecambe
