Author: kentpatterson

In 2017 we worked with Théâtre Sans Frontières to create a 35 minute play for KS1 children about Fuel Poverty. The piece was commissioned and funded by NATIONAL ENERGY ACTION.

A cast of four, Sarah Kemp, John Cobb, Eleanor Cobb and Jake Nelson plus 4 Corners musicians Ken Patterson and Richard Scott devised the show based upon the ‘Three Little Pigs’ story. Tidy Pig, Party Pig and Clumsy Pig end up in the house of bricks with a leaking roof and draughty doors and windows. They gradually work out ways of keeping warm despite the wolf who is always at their door.

Joey Holden took the part of Clumsy Pig when it toured for three weeks in the spring of 2017. Watch the film and find teachers’ notes, lyrics and music by clicking on RESOURCES (in pink) at the bottom of the TSF page.

Filmed by Sarah Hibbert and Kyle Donnely, music by Scott and Patterson, film edited by Ken Patterson.

In 2016 / 2017 we worked with six schools in the West End Schools Trust’ in Newcastle upon Tyne composing seven new assembly songs concerning energy conservation, smart meters, pollution, health and energy related inventors.

The songs in the downloadable songbook are:

Full of Energy                                   Theme Song from all schools

Keep it Smart                                    Hawthorn Primary School

There’s a Little Green Planet         St Paul’s C. of E. Primary

Power it Up                                       Broadwood Primary

Coughs and Colds                            Bridgewater Primary

Have a Care for the Polar Bear     Canning Street Primary

Power of Invention                          Wingrove Primary

LISTEN TO THE SONGS