Circle from a Square was written specifically for Jigsaw PSHE by Nolan Wiltz and Mark Robinson, songwriters from Suffolk, England. Children from St Andrew’s Primary School transformed it into a fun and exciting music video and have made it the new Jigsaw Theme Song.
The video demonstrates how Jigsaw PSHE can help children to build empathy, and work and collaborate as a team to accomplish a common dream or goal. The children worked with the Screenplay team to devise dance and movement to illustrate the lyrics and really brought this to life with their use of animation techniques, freshly learned for this project.
Jigsaw PSHE is so proud of the children from St Andrew’s CE VA Primary School who worked with Screenplay film-makers to master skills in animation, and then added dance and singing to bring to life the new Jigsaw theme song: Circle from a Square (written by Nolan Wiltz and Mark Robinson).
The song celebrates diversity and acceptance of difference, celebrating every child’s uniqueness….exactly what Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE is designed to do.
Thank you to everyone involved in the project!
Jan Lever
The children learned a variety of specific filmmaking techniques including making animated self-portraits, incorporating song, dance and movement, and composing it into the finished result with guidance and help from local filmmakers ScreenPlay; Sharon Hayden, Alastair Nisbet, Celeste Hayden and Mickey Wills.
The children then presented the finished music video to parents and carers at a special evening ceremony, and awards were presented to those children who had made a particularly remarkable contribution.
This particular musical arrangement was produced by Mickey Wills, with lead vocal, trumpet and saxophone performances by Lilly, Sean and Milo.
St Andrew’s Singing Club provided the chorus, under the musical direction of vocal coach, Beth Goudie with producer Mickey Wills.