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GIFS Anthem Project β€” Sept 15, 2026

Four Houses.
One Roar.

A one-day workshop where Grade 8 and Grade 9 write our own anthem's words and turn them into real music β€” with AI as the sketchpad, not the artist. Music class carries it forward from here.

20 students
2 class periods
Tool: Suno AI
Goal: directions, not a finished song

01 β€” Today

What today is β€” and isn't

Suno turns a short written description into a full song in about a minute. Today it's a sketching tool β€” like a pencil sketch before a real painting.

GIFS has never had an anthem before. There's nothing to replace, nothing to compare it to β€” this is the first one.

Grade 9 has been thinking hardest about what this anthem should say. Today, together, we shape those words and hear them become music, in a few directions.

What leaves today isn't a finished anthem β€” it's a short list of directions for the teacher to keep shaping.

Not on today's agenda

  • β€” A finished, ready-to-adopt anthem
  • β€” One "correct" genre for everyone
  • β€” Replacing the writers' original words
  • β€” A decision made without the writers

02 β€” What Makes GIFS, GIFS

Tigers & Four Houses

GIFS Tigers

Bold. Fierce. Proud.

Bonghwang

봉황 Β· Phoenix

Gumiho

ꡬ미호 · Fox Spirit

Haetae

ν•΄νƒœ Β· Guardian Lion

Dokkaebi

도깨비 Β· Trickster Spirit

02 β€” What Makes GIFS, GIFS

Values & Vision

InquirersKnowledgeable ThinkersCommunicators PrincipledOpen-Minded CaringRisk-Takers BalancedReflective

Inspiring Excellence in an International Community of Learners.

Some of us live on campus, far from home. "A home away from home" is an honest feeling to write about β€” not a forced one.

03 β€” The Method

Idea → Words, Live

Before we touch Suno, we write the words β€” live, with two AI writing tools side by side. Same method used at the κΉ€ν•΄ κ²½λ‚¨μŒμ•…μ°½μž‘μ†Œ songwriting lecture, adapted for GIFS.

TigersFour HousesBoarding Life

Setting

Who, and where are they standing?

Feeling

One word.

Image

One picture you could actually see β€” not an idea.

Ending

A promise, or a feeling that lingers.

The same five answers go into ChatGPT and Gemini at the same time β€” same ingredients, two different chefs. Best lines from each get combined, then Grade 9 writers give the final okay: does this still say what we meant?

03 β€” The Tool

The Recipe

Style

Genre + mood. First words carry the most weight.

bold anthemic pop, proud

Lyrics

Your words, marked with tags.

[Verse]...[Chorus]...

Exclude

What you don't want β€” its own box.

no heavy drums

Title

Whatever you want to call it.

"One Roar"

Bonus β€” Beyond Suno

Three Tools, Three Jobs

Suno isn't the only tool in this process. Each tool does one job well β€” none of them does all three.

ChatGPT / Gemini
brainstorm words & ideas
β†’
Suno
turn words into sound
β†’
MuseScore + Your Ear
turn sound into notation
Stuck on words during group work? Ask a chatbot for five alternate feeling-words β€” then bring the best one back to Suno.

04 β€” Being Honest

Suno gives us sound. Not sheet music.

Suno hands us a finished-sounding recording β€” not notation a choir can read from. If we want this anthem written out for real performance one day, there's one more step after today.

Suno Audio
a finished song
β†’
Draft Notation
e.g. in MuseScore
β†’
Corrected by Ear
채보 Β· a musician checks it
That last step is a job for after today. Automatic transcription still makes mistakes β€” a musician has to listen and fix it by ear. Today we're only finding the sound and the direction, not writing the final score.

05 β€” Flow

Today's Flow

11:15

Discover & Draft

What Suno is (and isn't), a live hook demo, then writing the lyrics live with ChatGPT & Gemini.

12:05

Lunch

Informal reactions β€” honest opinions often surface here.

12:50

Explore Directions

Small groups shape one variable each, then a student delegate huddle locks in one recommendation.

13:40

From here

The recommendation goes home with the teacher β€” refinement continues from here.

Not the final answer.
Just the first honest sound.

This becomes the real GIFS anthem when the school is ready β€” shaped by the people who wrote it, House by House.

GIFS Β· SUNO AI WORKSHOP Β· SEPT 15, 2026