Shania and Dolly help boost grades

Students singing one of their revision songs

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Students video a musical guide to revision
STUDENTS have been working nine to five on an educational video aimed at getting their grades up.

The creative short film shows sociology teachers and pupils from Oldham Sixth Form College singing along to country music stars Dolly Parton and Shania Twain.

Youngsters also performed a gangster rap to aid their exam revision.

The idea was brainstormed by lecturers Claire Corrigan and Salim Rahman to help the pupils remember the theorectical perspectives of Marxism, functionalism and feminism.

The clip has been submitted to a national website where pupils around the country can see teachers’ best — and bizarre — methods of revision.

The college is hoping to win £100,000 on the O2 Learn website, which will decide on the best national video in October.

Claire said: “It was about producing creative ideas and to help get the students’ grades up.

“For Marxism we did gangster rap and for functionalism we sang a hymn.

“For feminism we did two songs over two periods of history. One part was in black and white to show 1950s housewives singing Shania Twain’s ‘Man I Feel Like A Woman’, and the other was the present day, depicting high-powered businesswomen, so we sang Dolly Parton’s ‘Nine to Five’.”

To watch the video and vote visit and register at www.o2learn.co.uk, searching for Sociology a Music Revision Guide to Educational Theory.