Religion songs we learned at Primary school

Jaygon2009

Not sure if the primary school curriculum changed for Religion since the mid nineties but a lot of the songs I learned at school don't seem to be in the newer books.

Jesus sat under the shade of a tree
Here I am Lord
The 12 apostles song (there was Peter and Andrew, James and John......)
Join your hands together
Children of the universe

anyone remember these sort of songs and what company recorded them?

Cows Go µ

I don't remember any of those I'm afraid and I was a nineties kid

I used to love All Things Bright And Beautiful, I am the Lord of The Dance (or something to that effect) and Shine, Jesus Shine (I think I only like that one because I had to sing it in a school play)

Muppet Man

Dont remember them to be honest, but I remember learning a Latin hymn for my confirmation... I'll always remember the first two lines...

Ecce panis angelorum
Factus Cibus viatorum

Spelling is probably all wrong and havent a clue what it meant...

In fact, now that I think about it, I do remember learning "Be not afraid".

Muppet Man.

Jaygon2009

I remember the three of those!

Muppet Man

Sweet mother of all things holy....I got the spelling right...

http://www.chantcd.com/lyrics/ecce_panis_angelorum.htm



Is there anything that Goolge doesnt know

Muppet Man

Cows Go µ

You have to sing a latin hymn when you get comfirmed? I'm now glad I didn't get confirmed.

Jaygon2009

Children of the universe went something like this:

This is a call to the children of the universe,
to all forgotton people in far off foreign lands.
We know you hope for a world that shares tomorrow,
Where no one will be hungry
there will be no need to cry

Join your hands:

Join your hands together, join you hands together
lets build bridges for the world.
If we listen to the stories, we'll grow strong in glory
learn to communicate
touch, see and hear

Latchy

'' St La salle our dearest brother '' and a rake of Latin stuff .

Have to mention this now cos i'll forget tomorrow

Muppet Man

Not sure you HAD to sing a latin hymn, but we were taught by the Christian Brothers, and I think they wanted to try and impress the Bishop of the diocese with a latin hymn during the conferral.

Those Christian Brother dudes were big into their latin

Muppet Man.

Jaygon2009

I was a De la Salle boy too!

Jack Sheehan

Walk in the light of the Lord? Or in Irish 'Siul i Solas Dei.'

Muppet Man

yeah, I remember "walk in the light"

There's a few coming back to me now...

Ruu_Old

This thread should help.

Latchy

Muppet Man wrote: »

Those Christian Brother dudes were big into their latin

They sure were

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

I was a De la Salle boy too!

And that ment something right ?

none of those ' yeah , we know now dude ' replys either

Jaygon2009

errr, no, not sure it meant anything. I was just saying.

SwirlsAllAround

Ah, one of my favourite topics!

I remember most of those songs. My personal favourites include "We Come to You Lord Jesus" which is still very popular in schools today and "Cead Mile Failte Romhat"....Every school mass we had in secondary included "Here I am Lord" and "City of God".

The Religion curriculum of the late 1980s and 1990s was the "Children of God" series....I remember all the tapes were old and always sounded really muffled.

Latchy

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

errr, no, not sure it meant anything. I was just saying.

But if it didn't mean anything to you ,ya wouldn't have mentioned in first place , now would ya ?

Jaygon2009

Thanks for all the responses! I will check that 'Children of God' series out

Jaygon2009

@Swirlsallaround,
Can you remember what any of those books from that series were called?

Whosbetter?

Yeah,rem some of that stuff.

'Workers for the kingdom' went down well alright.:rolleyes:

Also I rem 'I'm a soldier in God's army'.
We used to substitute God for Dad in that one.:D

Just talking to Mrs Whosbetter? on this & she wonders if I was raised in Russia!!:eek:

SwirlsAllAround

Erm, I think one was called "Grow in Love" and another was "Remember Me Together". Are you doing a project or something?

Jaygon2009

I'm a secondary school teacher thinking of doing some reseach into curriculum development in primary and post primary education in the last 30 years. National Archives great for records and syllabii changes but not so great on supplying or listing the older books.

SwirlsAllAround

That sounds interesting.

I see on your other post you're looking for info on Irish books too.
I was looking for old Irish books back in October and found www.litriocht.ie very useful. There isn't much left now but have a look anyway.

"Suas Liom" was the 4th class book btw .

Jaygon2009

Thanks Swirls:
It is turning out to be very interesting. I'm going to put up an english reader query too.
Why the interest in Irish, if you don't mind me asking?

Whosbetter?

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Thanks Swirls:
It is turning out to be very interesting. I'm going to put up an english reader query too.
Why the interest in Irish, if you don't mind me asking?

FF voter obviously. :rolleyes:

SwirlsAllAround

I'm a primary teacher (NQT) and old text books are a great resource, especially for Gaeilge. I haven't managed to get hold of many but the best places to look are second-hand bookshops outside of Dublin. Busy at Maths (as gaeilge) is available on the Litriocht site btw.

Jaygon2009

Excecellent. I teach Irish at second level. Would you happen to know what the Religion curriculum is at primary level? There dosn't seem to be a syllabus in the 1999 revised syllabii and i haven't got back as far as Curaclam na Gaeilge (1971) yet.

Re: Gaeilge
Other than the readers and the bog liom series, I don't remember other Gaeilge resources we used at schools.
I do remember the Bun go Barr series coming in around 1995

SwirlsAllAround

Ok, I don't know about the 1971 Curriculum, but as regards the 1999 Curriculum there isn't a Religion component, it's completely separate. The curriculum for Religion is essentially the Alive-O series.

Alive-O is the updated version of the Children of God series, the same people are behind it. There's a teacher's manual which is the closest thing I've seen to a Religion curriculum. It lays out the 30 minute lesson for each school day for the entire year, among other things.

As for the Gaeilge, there were definitely other books around when I was in school, if I can remember any of the names of these books I'll get back to you.

Jaygon2009

Thanks for the info! I thought it was strange there was no official Dept. Curriculum.
I guess it must be optional these days!

SwirlsAllAround

Jaygon, sent you a PM.

Lizzykins

I was at primary school in 1971 and all I remember is Buntus Cainte! It was INCREDIBLY boring. For religion I remember we had these purple books and also a catechism too or maybe they were one and the same!