A SONG written for Kylie Minogue by music producer parents at a Herefordshire school has been rewritten and released by the pupils.

The backing track to Clifford Primary School’s newly released It’s Just the Way We Feel was written with Kylie in mind by Mima Stilwell and Jim Eliot, the electro pop duo that perform as Kish Mauve.

However it wasn’t used and the two, whose star clients also include Will Young, Ellie Goulding, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Ella Henderson, teamed up with fellow school parent and member of local band Cherryshoes, Dave Prescott, to rework it with the children’s own lyrics.

“It was written with Kylie in mind but it wasn’t used and we thought it was a great backing track. The key elements of it were really fun, so we thought it would suit children.

“Jim stripped it back then Dave and I went into school and got the kids to write the lyrics,” said Mima.

The song is about the environment and children wrote their lyrics on pieces of paper which they spread on the hall floor before Mima and Dave shaped them into a song with a new melody.

Dave, who played with Cherryshoes at this year’s T in the Park on the BBC Introducing Stage, said: “The children instinctively got it. I really like the idea of associating nature and the environment with energy and pop and youthful excitement, rather than doom and gloom and changing light bulbs.

“There are some great lines that only children can come up with like ‘sea shells are moving, the turtles are grooving’.”

The children felt like stars as their school hall was turned into a recording studio and they were all recorded singing either solo parts or in groups. Jim then produced the song in his and Mima’s Hay-on-Wye studio.

It’s now available in a CD sleeve cleverly designed by year six pupil, Joseph Jones which features a crayoned picture of the world, complete with grooving turtles.

“Clifford School is an environmentally friendly school. Everywhere you look there is lush greenery and it’s important to keep it that way. People are doing bad things to the planet. We are really just destroying this beautiful world,” said Joseph.

The school hopes its new CD will encourage people to look after the environment. Proceeds from sales will also go to school funds. To request a CD e-mail daveprescott@me.com.