Ewan McGregor joins his former school to sing climate change message
With permission from Bob Geldof and Midge Ure the Crieff school performed a re-written version of Feed the World
136 primary school pupils from Morrison's Acadmey in Crieff have been joined by former pupil Ewan McGregor to sing a climate change message.
The school was chosen as the first to be filmed singing the remake of the band aid song, 'Feed he World', which has been re-written and re-named 'Action Time'.
Music teacher Rebecca Hall wrote the updated version of the song and approached her friend and business women Georgie Delaney MBE, to try and get the song to Greta Thunberg. With the eyes of the world on COP26 in Glasgow the pair decided to take it to Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.
The duo who wrote the iconic song gave them their blessing. Midge Ure even supported the project by sharing it to his LinkedIn page and stating: "I'm honoured to be a tiny part of this."
Hollywood star Ewan McGregor got involved as his father passed the project on to his son who then sent over videos of him singing the song and providing a foreword to the video, in which he states: “I hope we the adults can address the climate situation, so that our children can continue to go to school and be children and we leave them a better, cleaner world to inherit.”
Morrison’s Academy Primary School became involved in the project as Georgie Delaney’s son, Brandon, a devoted climate activist, attends the school. Brandon’s love for the planet was nurtured last academic year when he set up a climate change website as part of a school project.
Many more schools have now got involved by singing the song and more videos are set to be released. More schools are encouraged to take part with the project also on the look out for more celebrities to get involved and sing their part.
Ms Morven Bulloch, Head of the Primary School said: “Our pupils are taught to think independently and are encouraged to be empowered and take on the world. In class they have been learning about climate change and why COP26 is such an important event.
"When the school was approached with this opportunity, we were delighted to be involved. Our Primary pupils sang their hearts out, they want to be heard and make a difference. They want to be the agents of change and encourage other pupils and schools to use their collective voices.”
Georgie Delaney MBE said: "It's quite complicated to understand what this 1.5 degrees is all about but if we hit this increase of 1.5 degrees, which the scientists are saying is in seven years time, then this could create irreversible climate breakdown.
"This is obviously really, really, serious for the future of our children and the climate clock says that we're seven years away from that so we need to take urgent action now.
"We need kind of, Bob Geldof's spirit, so his song is so perfect for this. It not only educates the children on how to articulate this but, hopefully, will resonate with the people in power because they'll remember what Bob did at Live Aid."