Ian Dean, Sean Angeli, Stephen Bury and David Chapman, who took part in the puppet sequence from "Cover the World" by Towneley School at the Schools Festival concert at St. Theodore's.

From a review by Norman Powell:
Capacity audiences attended the Schools Festival concerts at Barden, the Girls' High School and St Theodore's, which were continued on Thursday and Friday, 1st and 2nd April 1971, last week. Mr G. B. Hill, the Deputy Director of Education, said that the week had been an outstanding success, team work and co-operation between the schools being responsible for the smooth running of the festival. Mr Hill also said how impressed he was by the support of parents and the general public.

Music and rhyme were emphasised at the Barden concert with six schools participating in a very attractive programme. The concert was opened by 70 very young children from Heasandford Infants School, who recited Eleanor Farjon's poem "Absolutely nothing" and the percussion and recorder band of the seven and eight-year-old children. Heasandford Junior School provided an excellent country dance team, and Stoneyholme Junior School some very lively dancing, a la tiller girls. St John's RC Junior School's contribution was a group of songs sung by a very attractively costumed choir and instrumental music was provided by Barden School with a clarinet solo, a string group, a brass group, folk music and the school choir. "Daniel Jazz" a powerful interpretation of the Bible story of Daniel in the lion's den was presented by Walshaw Girls' School. Mr W. Ralph was the compere.

The final concert at St Theodore's School on Friday evening was attended by a capacity audience of 450 who were outnumbered by the cast of 550 children. Music and movement was again the theme, with Todmorden Road Infants and Junior Schools' miming, dancing, and singing. Christ the King RC Junior School specialised in choral speaking, while St. Mary's RC Junior school presented a combination of instruments and voices in "Caedmon" by Iain Kendell and Stewart Allen. Towneley Comprehensive School staged the puppet scene from their recent musical "Cover the World" and St Hilda's RC Girls School presented Mary O'Neill's "Adventure in Colour". Gilbert and Sullivan was well to the fore, with items from Burnley Wood School, and the boys of St Theodore's brought proceedings to a close with excerpts from "The Gondoliers" a fitting climax to a very successful week. Mr A. Lawson was the compere.