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Discover the spirit and value of our community, the environment and local heroes.
See aspects of Perth County on a school tour.
Wonderful local innovators, entrepreneurs, organic farmers, alternative energy providers and more, come to schools and share their knowledge.
Song Writing Competition, Documentary Competition
Song Writing Workshops
Offer basic ideas on:
- "Where to start"
- form (structure)
- beat, rhythm (feel)
- lyric
- tune
- styles
-Options for anyone to begin the process of song writing.
These workshops will avoid the contest theme for purposes of exploration and example.
Listen to songs collaboratively created and recorded by students in the classroom.
Click here for participation schools listings
St. Michael Catholic Secondary School Students Tour
Thank you to Antony John for his tour of greenhouse, barn and field-chickens, greens and heritage vegetables- organic and alternative farming methods.
Thank you to Eric Eberhardt for his knowledge of solar panels, alternatives for energy production and our future. Organic food supplier for 30 years.
Song Writing Competition
Winners
- Poppy Kipfer - A Place Called Home | Grade 8 Montessori
- Jennifer Oesch - Back Home | Grade 11, Northwestern Secondary School
- Luc Fisher, Tyler Zybura, Amy Schell - Remember Me Forever | Grade 11, Northwestern Secondary School
- Sam Kochany - Magic of Youth | Grade 12, Central Secondary School
- Abigail Winter-Culliford, Sadie Culliford , Gary Winter (family entry) - Havin' an Avon Kinda Day | Grade 8, Downie Public School
- Kirstie Carter - Home on Your Side | Grade 10, Central Secondary School
Six winners were chosen from entries received from students from across the county. The Judges included David Prosser, Director of Communications for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Rick Fox, Director of Music for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Barry Payne, Stratford, Ontario songwriter, whose band String Bone, is receiving international, critical acclaim for its latest CD, nadir
Winners receive a cash prize of $200 and an extended learning opportunity.
They will collaboratively work with a professional composer/arranger on their piece and then take that developed work into the recording studio. Their work will then be produced with professional musicians.
Watch and Listen here for the results of this evolving process.
perthsong@hermione-presents.com
Documentary Competition
Winners
- 1st- Right to Play - Tanner Trachsel
- 2nd- Canadian Heroes: Sir Isaac Brock - Kenny Edwards
- 3rd- Gentle Rain - Cody Romphf
Honourable mention
- A New Kind of Kewl- Emelie Rowe
- Its Just Home – Carl Farrell, Sebastian Russell
- Off the Wall- Natalie Blacklock, Max Martin
Documentary cash prizes of $300, $200 and $100 were awarded and videos are posted to multiple websites.
Students have benefited from looking at this region through the lens of the environment, entrepreneurship and role models. The discussions in class and the people that donated their time and expertise (including those that didn't make it past the cutting room floor) all had impacts on the future of these students. Hope for a viable lifestyle in this region, and the world at large, has an economic impact we cannot measure in immediate dollars and cents. The transfer of communications skills and the empowerment of youth are invaluable investments in our future.
perthdocumentary@hermione-presents.com
Song Writing Workshops
Song writing workshops take place over a two
to three hour time slot.
The students listen to examples of styles, themes, forms, and rhyme
schemes, analyzing for meaning and structure.
The group then, collaboratively, picks their own theme. They work
together through a process creating lyrics, picking a style, a form
and a tune.
Negotiation, compromise and time pressure in the context of
creativity and a thematic goal makes for an engaging and challenging
experience.
The product of this intense, compact experience is then recorded "as
is", in the classroom.
These are songs in their rawest form, as they exist at the beginning
of a process. Much like a document in first draft, these need
further exploration and development to reach their fullest potential.
We present these songs as examples of what a few people can achieve
when set to a task with rigorous constraints.
We would like to thank the students for the focus and integrity they
bring to this learning process.
Problem solvers, peace makers, ground breaking innovators and team
players use some of the skills explored in the creation of a song.
Any songs created during this
workshop process are licensed under
Creative Commons
Sunshine Montessori
St Marys DCVI
Stratford Central Secondary
Downie Central Public School
St Michael Catholic Secondary School
Listowel District Secondary School
Sunshine Montessori
Grades 7 & 8
I'm Travelling
The sand between my toes,
waves lapping on the shore
I feel so contented
I want nothing more.
I'm travelling.
It gives me time to think
as I move along.
I know I'm in the place,
the place where I belong,
I'm travelling.
chorus:
I'm travelling, I'm travelling
and everywhere I roam
I know I'll always find my way back home,
my way back home.
repeat
St Marys DCVI
Grade 10 Drama Class
These Are The Questions
Can you say what you want?
Are you being held back?
Can your mind be bought?
Is there something you lack?
Can you do what you please?
Do you have the freedom you need?
Are you down on you knees?
Do you struggle and plead?
chorus:
these are the questions
that are buried under nations.
These are the boundaries to Freedom.
These are the world's expectations.
repeat
Downie Central Public School
Grade 7 & 8
Dreaming of Him
It's Friday afternoon
He's calling my name
It sounds so persistent
Am I going insane?
I wish this day were over
It feels like a year
It seems like forever
I wish he were here
I'm slippin' away
I need to slow down
I'm not really thinking
My heart starts to pound
I'm getting away
I'm getting away
I'm getting away
Am I going insane?
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