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Creative Tasks

Morris Contemporary - Creative Tasks As part of our Morris Contemporary Dance resource we have produced a range of short films. These are designed to be used alongside the written notes and audio files to give you a clear idea of how the steps...

 

Sticking

Morris Contemporary - Sticking As part of our Morris Contemporary Dance resource we have produced a range of short films. These are designed to be used alongside the written notes and audio files to give you a clear idea of how the steps and...

 

Figures

Morris Contemporary - Figures As part of our Morris Contemporary Dance resource we have produced a range of short films. These are designed to be used alongside the written notes and audio files to give you a clear idea of how the steps and...

 

Morris Steps

Morris Contemporary - Steps As part of our Morris Contemporary Dance resource we have produced a range of short films. These are designed to be used alongside the written notes and audio files to give you a clear idea of how the steps and figures...

 

Warm Ups

Morris Contemporary - Warm Ups As part of our Morris Contemporary Dance resource we have produced a range of short films. These are designed to be used alongside the written notes and audio files to give you a clear idea of how the steps and...

 

Morris Contemporary Dance

Morris Contemporary Dance This resource aims to introduce a creative, contemporary approach to using morris within the secondary dance curriculum. It is for teachers and students teaching and learning dance at key stages 3, 4 and 5 (11 plus years...

     

Old Pendle

Old Pendle Old Pendle is about Pendle Hill in North East Lancashire. It is believed that witches live there. Although it sounds like an old folk song, this song was written in the 1950s in the folk style. The composers were Milton and Allen...

   

Shepherd's Hey

Shepherd's Hey This is popular tune known to folk musicians, and there are many different variations. Shepherd's Hey is included in the Three Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools pack collated for The Full English schools projects that Oli Matthews...

   

Speed the Plough

Speed The Plough This is a very well known tune, and often played in folk sessions in pubs and festivals across the country. It was collected from John Locke by Cecil Sharp on 27 Dec 1909, in Leominster, Herefordshire. This tune is in the Three...

   

Curly Headed Ploughboy

Curly Headed Ploughboy This is a very well known tune, and often played in folk sessions in pubs and festivals across the country. It was collected from William Hemming by Cecil Sharp on 21 Sept 1922, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. This tune is in the...

   

Three Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools

Three Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools The material in this pack was collated for The Full English schools projects that Oli Matthews was involved in at Horizon Community Academy, Barnsley and Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes. These projects...

   

Abroad for Pleasure

Abroad for Pleasure Alternative titles: Pratty Flowers or The Holmfirth Anthem A popular chorus song, this is associated strongly with the old West Riding of Yorkshire, though it has been collected widely throughout England. It is a pastoral love...

   

The Farmer's Boy / To Be A Farmer's Boy

To Be A Farmer's Boy/The Farmer's Boy To Be A Farmer’s Boy (Or The Farmer’s Boy ) is in The Full English Chorus Songs Pack , and the Seven Songs of Harvest pack for primary schools. You can download both packs from the PDF tab at the top of the...

   

Pleasant and Delightful

Pleasant and Delightful This song is widespread in England and still heard in many folk club and festival singing sessions. Often the delivery of the verses is quite perfunctory with all the emphasis of the singing being placed on the communal...

   

Fathom The Bowl / Punch Ladle

Fathom The Bowl / Punch Ladle Fathom the Bowl probably began life as a printed broadside, for example www.vwml.org/record/FK/13/42/1 as the collected versions are all very similar in their wording, most coming from the southern counties of...

   

Sweet Nightingale

Sweet Nightingale A popular chorus song. The words of Sweet Nightingale were first published in Robert Bell's Ancient Poems of the Peasantry of England , 1857, with the note: “This curious ditty—said to be a translation from the ancient Cornish...

   

Barley Mow

Barley Mow A cumulative song found throughout the British Isles. There are versions in the archive from Sussex, Kent, Somerset, Cornwall, Kent, Wiltshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and more. The ‘barley mow’ of the title is a stack of barley, gathered...

   

Folk Chorus Songs Selection

Folk Chorus Songs Selection One type of song that has remained popular across English speaking traditions is the ‘chorus song’. These are often led by one singer (in a pub, for example) with the community joining in with the repeated chorus,...

   

False Lamkin: teaching notes for Key Stages 2 and 3

False Lamkin: teaching notes for Key Stages 2 and 3 Background notes on this dramatic and gory ballad, suitable for Key Stages 2 and 3, by Mary Humphreys. The song lends itself to a much deeper exploration of the social history of mediaeval to...

   

The Wensley Jig

The Wensley Jig An arrangement of a folk tune in 4 parts discovered in The Full English digital archive by John Kirkpatrick. John was commissioned to arrange three tunes for a massed band of artists to play at The Full English national showcase...