The music of Chas and Dave greeted pupils when they arrived with regards to weekly singing assembly at Newington Primary Community Primary School in Ramsgate on Friday (September 28).
Music teacher Warwick Eldred and teaching assistant Lewis Cox performed the cockney singing stars’ hits The Sideboard Song and Ain’t No Pleasing You in tribute to pianist Chas Hodges who died on September 22.
Chas and Dave use a link with the institution C Mr Eldred composed a six times table Maths learning aid song in their Rocky (cockney rock) style, which has a video featuring animated graphics of your pair.
And as soon as the duo discovered it and saw it on the Internet they contacted the teachers to suggest congratulations and also sent them a shorter congratulatory video message.
Mr Eldred said: “The pupils have an understanding of Chas and Dave through their learning in the Maths song as well as the video which he and Dave sent us. They will likely also provide seen in news reports for the weekend that he sadly died.
“So we thought to pay our personal little tribute at our singing assembly and say a number of words around the music of Chas and Dave and how this can be a very British portion of our heritage which consists of distinctive style and content.”
The spirit of Chas and Dave seemed to be present recently when pupils tackled a term-long project investigating London, its social and cultural importance and heritage.
Mr Eldred (pictured below) and fellow teacher Tim Knight dressed as Chas and Dave and, plus a life-size cut-out in the Queen, welcomed individuals the school’s prove that was everything about the capital.
The Chas and Dave video for that six times table features animated graphics of your pair singing, plus images in london, such as pictures on the Queen, Tottenham Hotspur FC, actor Michael Caine, Winston Churchill, Peckham’s Del Boy and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses, Swinging London 60s icon Twiggy, and Mary Poppins.
This song finishes in true Cockney style with “have a butchers why don’t ya, within the six times tables song.”
Mr Eldred said: “Children want to sing and employing this to prompt their learning is a fantastic and fun strategy for delivering information.”
The school includes a range of stylized and entertaining learning aid songs and Head Teacher Cliff Stokes said: “Creative learning is successful in fact it is something we embrace whenever you can.
“Chas and Dave helped us boost learning of your Maths tables song if they took the time and to write to us and send us videos message which to use own way underpinned our teaching. So that we were thrilled to pay our very own little tribute to Chas in assembly.”
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