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The Tale o'

Tam o' Shanter

Get your pupils singing and moving while learning!

We now offer the teaching resources of our much-loved annual Primary Schools Tour as a digital package.

Our digital package gives your P5-P7 pupils the opportunity to be involved in a special performance day, or simply enjoy some expressive arts activities in the classroom. Whether this is your first time delivering a music-based project in the classroom or you're a seasoned pro, you'll find our comprehensive package of audio, video, and curriculum-based resources easy to follow.

Our flexible digital approach means you can build all elements of the project into your timetable or lesson plans at times that suit you, allowing you to deliver aspects of A Curriculum for Excellence.

Kindly supported by The Jean Armour Burns Trust, The David and June Gordon Memorial Trust, The Harbinson Charitable Trust, The W M Mann Foundation and Scottish Opera’s Education Angels

About The Tale o' Tam o' Shanter

Market Day is over in the town of Ayr and the farmer Tam o’ Shanter is making his way home with his faithful horse Meg. At first, Tam makes good progress but as the night grows darker, the rain falls and the wind howls and shrieks through the branches of the trees, he finds himself outside the church graveyard where he discovers, to his horror and amazement, a coven of witches dancing in the moonlight. Fearful but fascinated, Tam watches as the music whirls and skirls ever faster. But suddenly one of them spots Tam, and now he and Meg are racing for their lives…

Based on Robert Burns’ Tam o’ Shanter, this show is an exciting romp through his famous poem, commissioned in 2001 to re-introduce young people to the works of the celebrated Scottish poet.

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The Tale o' Tam o' Shanter's digital package costs £100.

This package provides you with everything you need to make the project – and the performance day – a success. This includes:

  • PDF of the lyrics,  and full teaching pack
  • Audio files including the full score, instrumental only backing tracks, and detailed teaching tracks which take you line by line through the music, which can be both downloaded and listened to online in playlists
  • Videos which teach you the staging and dance moves for each song
  • Videos to be used at the performance day, providing the backdrop and music for your show, including solo roles sung by Scottish Opera professionals

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Questions about our digital package? 
Please contact our Producer Millie Pink using the contact form below:

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