1st Form Welcome Assembly

The 1^st Form Welcome Assembly is fun for both the students and the teachers!  Every class plans a performance to welcome the new students.  It’s now a tradition that the volunteer teachers contribute a surprise performance of their own.  My first year we dressed and acted like the students, making a classroom setting, and saying all the funny things we hear from them in class.  Their roaring laughter turned to screaming when we finished it all with a synchronized dance number.  Then last year we realized the students cheer and scream so loudly it doesn’t even matter what we’re saying in the mic because they can’t hear it anyway.  So the new lyrics for Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic (which we stayed up way too late writing) were completely lost.  No one could hear a single word once the students saw a male teacher in a homemade wig dancing around as “Rose”.  For anyone who taught here while Ms. Katherine was teaching flute (recorder) you’ll really get a kick out of the new lyrics: 

Every Tuesday and Friday

We hear it, We fear it

That is how we know it’s begun

Far across the campus,

There’s not enough distance between us

We have come to tell you

move on, pick a new song

ONCE MORE WE TRY TO IGNORE
BUT THIS SONG JUST GOES ON AND ON AND ON

Once we hear the song one time

It haunts us, a lifetime

Even in the states we’ve moved on (But we still keep hearing this song)

Know that you don’t sound bad

It just drives us so mad

And we’ll just be so glad, it’s done

ONCE MORE WE TRY TO IGNORE
BUT THIS SONG JUST GOES ON AND ON AND ON

(Dancing – Dave’s Interlude)

CELINE DION, MOVE ON TO MOPAN

AND WE’LL HOPE THAT YOUR SONG IS LONG GONE.

BUT WE MUST STAY AT MT. CARMEL ANYWAY

SO WE’LL WEAR OUR HEADPHONES, HIT PLAY, AND

FORGET, THIS SONG.

(Pull out recorders and play short piece – squeak at end)

This year we decided to mock the students and their quirky behavior once again.  The students have a great sense of humor and love making fun of themselves (and us making fun of them, too!)  Here we are in the school uniform.