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When Coryn Knox, a Grade 3 stu-
dent at Huron Centennial Public
School, heard about a contest offered
by the school board's foundation
looking for songs about the environ-
ment to include on a CD, she headed
straight for the shower.
,. Writing songs while standing in
the shower since she was "a little
kid," Coryn says she started working
on a song that spelled out the word
pollution.
"I thought it would be catchy," she
She and: her' classmate Brooke
Schroeder sing the song on the Avon
Maitland District School's Board's
Foundation for Enriching Education
'CD called Footprints - Songs and Po-
-r. etry for a Sustainable Planet.
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t ` And, they're two of about 65 Huron
Centennial students to win a spot
„ singing various songs on the CD.
Coryn and Brooke recorded the
song originally in front of their class
with music teacher John Powers but
recorded it a second time • at The
Swamp, a recording studio in Gad -
shill, north of Stratford.
"We got to miss the whole day of
,,,we ,school ; and it's cool that we got to
have our voices on CD that will be
sold," says Coryn
"It think it sounds better on the
studio recording - it's a bit more rock
and roll," adds Brooke.
The environmental CD project,
funded by the Ministry of Energy
and Infrastructure, involved a board-
wide contest last fallafter teacher
Kerry McManus
had a graduate
share despair
s. about 'how hard
it is to make
change . within
an institution.
Inspired by
watching the ef-
fect of kids- on
their families as
they encouraged
the use of blue
boxes and other
environmental
practices, Mc-
Manus wrote a
grant application
for the CD proj-
ect.
"We were look-
ing for ways to
support the ideas
and dreams for
the green initia-
tive
nitia-tive across the
school board,"
says McManus,
adding that pro-
ceeds from the
sale of the CD
will fund the
foundation's
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StratfOrd-.Beacon Herald photo
John Powers leads a' Huron Centennial music class as they record on the CD Foot-
prints songs and Poetry for a Sustainable Planet.
ing back to' Huron Perth schools and from three Grade 8 students at Hu -
their green projects. ron Centennial and liensall Public
A panel of judges, including Bert' School - and two songs from high -
Carriere, past.music director of the school students.
Huron Centennial sent three class
groups to the recording studio in
Grades 1-3 to : sing songs called The
World Needs Energy, Pollution, In
The Future and What If.
When he heard about the contest,
Powers asked his primary music
classes if they wanted to write some
Stratford Festival, , :David Prosser,
director of literary services at the
Stratford ` Festival and Eric Eber-
hardt, owner of the Gentle Rain
healthfood store: in Stratford, chose
the winners. �.
They included four songs from pri-
mary students - all of which came
from: Huron Centennial Public
School - two poems and five songs
from Grades 5-8 - one of which came
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"It came together easily. Writing
songs is something I love to do. We
started with the lyrics and looked for
words that rhyme and once you have
your rhythm pattern, you trey out
some musical styles," he says.
Powers says that with a green
classroom and green team at Huron
Centennial, the students. were very
knowledgeable about environmental
issues and had no trouble: coming up
with lyrics.
"They're in touch with what they
can do to make a difference. It's great
to get young children involved as"rep-
resentatives of the future generation
since they really have an awareness
of what's going on," he says.
The four songs range in style from
reggae to funk, folk and African and
some of the songs were originally-, re-
corded with some instrumental help
from some Grade 8 students.
When they were chosen to record
on the CD, the students were very
excited about the opportunity.
"They knew they had to be on their
best behaviour because time is mon-
ey in a studio but you could sense
their enthusiasm," says Powers.
"They were all nervous and ex-
cited. They all looked so cute with
their director -trying to get them to
be funky," says Eileen . Smith, who
produced the CD along with Strat-
ford musician Paul Shilton.
Smith says the .Huron Centennial
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