Belgium : "Do it now!"

In September ‘12 more than 80.000 adults and more than 300.000 children gathered on 180 squares all over Belgium and some other countries to sing this protest song.

The kids at Qworzó were proud to be part of this non-violent climate-revolution and they wanted to sing this song for Schoolovision too, so all of you would get this important message. The original clip was shown in Belgian parliamant and at the UN climate conference in Doha. 

We hope you enjoy our song.  Be our guest and do sing along with us!

You can find our HD-video here: https://vimeo.com/65569288 or our normal quality video here:

We want to thank Nic Balthazar for allowing us to cover his amazing song!

We look forward to reading your comments very much!

Good luck to all in this contest!

Kind Belgian regards,

The Qworzó-kids

Liked our song?  Then you will like these two videoclips too! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kRP5x2MsAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsdOxMWBrQg

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Spain : “Put on your best costume and come into carnival”

Hello from the Canary Islands, Spain. We are extremely happy to be participating once again in Schoolovision. Thanks to this project, our school has been able to opens its doors to everyone in our community and in doing so we have received tremendous support and collaboration from so many people from all different generations.

Our song is an invitation to participate in the festival of Carnival. This is a very important celebration in the Canary Islands in which people come together and have fun through singing, dancing and dressing up in costumes. Creativity, imagination, the unity of people and having fun are some of the values of our Carnival tradition.

Our entire village joined together to celebrate Carnival for you. All of the schools from our town (municipality) participated in the traditional parade. The children danced, played drums and sang the song, “Put on your best costume and come into carnival” which was written by a Canarian songwriter named Sindro Saavedra.
In the video you will see different scenes that incorporate many of the different traditions of our Carnival, for example;

• How a grandma sews costumes for her granddaughters.
• The old tradition of knocking on ones door while wearing old clothes and asking for eggs to make pancakes. You also can watch how they make carnival pancakes.
• How our children invite people to join in the Carnival celebration in the local shops, at the taxi rank, the pharmacy, etc.
• A Carnival parade with floats
• The 2013 Carnival Queen at the stage where the many different performances for the Carnival celebration take place in the capital city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
• A performance by a Drag Queen which has become a world famous Carnival tradition here.
• And you can also see our “sardine” that will be burned and which marks the end of the festival.

We enjoyed ourselves a lot while making this video and everyone has been anxiously waiting for this moment. We have worked on preparing our entry for the 2013 Schoolovision contest for several months, but it’s been worth it. Through this project we have achieved our main goal:
Unity through education
Thank you Schoolovision.

We’d like to wish the best of luck to all of the other participants!

CEIP Valsequillo, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.

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England : "The animals went in two by two..."

Hi Folks from Church Aston Infant School. Here is our song.
It is one of our favourite songs in school and about the
creatures who went into Noah's Ark.
We had fun dressing up for the recording.
Good Luck to everyone!

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Poland : "Sarna"

Hello schoolovisioners!

"Sarna" is Polish traditional folk song of the Beskid Mountains. The song is about the fact that people are jealous of agility and fitness of animals, that could be used in the dance.

We prepared modern version of the song. 

Participants:

Singers - 5B, 3A and 3B grades students;

Thin whistles orchestra - 2B grade students

Dancers - school folk dance group from grade 5B

Saxophone - Marcin, 2A grade

Slow motion animation (dolls in Polish traditional costumes) - Kasia, 6C

Pivot animations - students of 5B i 6C
Music - Garageband :)

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Germany : "Überdosis Glück"

Once upon a time...

... or rather 200 years ago the Brothers Grimm lived and worked in Kassel.
It was here that they first published their collection of fairytales which has become popular around the world.

As an homage to the anniversary of this special event and also to celebrate the 1100th anniversary of our great city of Kassel we produced this year's entry around the theme of some of the most popular fairytales of the Brothers Grimm.

Besides that, with this video we express our support of the currently running application to add our very special and wonderful mountainous park region "Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe" to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.

Enjoy the video and leave us a comment, please!

And here's your task:
Which fairytales do you recognize?

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Portugal : "Sei Quem Sou"

Our song is very special because it talks about our country, our soul and its history!
Our students loved it!
We also hope you enjoy it! :)

"It's the music that history sang,
It's the love that I'll bring in my heart,
cause I know who I am!
Portugal!!!"

Best wishes from Arraiolos, Portugal!

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Greece : " Ikariotikos "

And let's smell a little bit of summer..... Let's dance Ikariotikos! 

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Basque Country : "Goazen baserrira"

In our School Programme, every two years, teachers and students
spend three days in a farm.There, they learn about animals and plants.
We have a very good time!
This video shows you our seven years old students taking part
in some of the activities.

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Slovenia : "My way is my decision"

Hi, dear Schoolovisioners!

We're back. A primary school from Domžale. Osnovna šola Venclja Perka.
My sixth-graders have been working really hard this time.
They would come to school every morning at 7.30 to practise singing and dancing.

And here we are, proudly presenting
MY WAY IS MY DECISION.



And now a task for you.
The song is originally sung by the best Slovenian alpine skier ever. Her last season was beyond our wildest dreams. She won 2414 points in World Cup. Can you guess her name?

We're all huge fans of this wonderful lady and a fantastic athlete so my pupils had absolutely no problems making a decision what song to sing this year.

All the thanks to the Planet TV team. You're awesome.

We had so much fun shooting the video. It's an experience we'll never forget.

We wish all of you the best in the contest.

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Ukraine : “Vesnianka” (“A Spring Song”)

Hello friends! We’d like to present one of Ukrainian traditional spring songs.
It’s spring now. The grass is fresh and green, the flowers are so beautiful. The trees are in blossom. A young girl is walking in the hills. She looks at the flowers and sings a beautiful song. Dear children, let’s go to the meadows. Let us play and dance and sing spring songs!
Hope you will like our song and the video.
Ukrainian schoolovision team

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Austria : "Live is Life"

Hello friends all over Europe, this year we will present you the song
"LIVE IS LIFE" from our favourite Austrian Band OPUS. Have fun and sing with us!

Because.......When we all give the power. We all give the best. Every minute of an hour. Don't think about a rest. Then you all get the power. You all get the best. And everyone gives everything. And every song everybody sings....

Above is the YouTube version of the song- if you have difficulty viewing it, please use the Vimeo version below!

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Cyprus : "San ton Karagiozi"

Hello everybody!! We are proud to present this year's entry "San ton Karagiozi" = "Like Karagiozi". Karagiozis is the main actor (puppet) in the shadow theatre which is very popular in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. We hope you enjoy our song and us having fun in various places in our village and at the seaside.

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Switzerland : "mi Chue - ma vache - my cow"

Hello Europe!
We are happy to represent Switzerland for the first time!

Mobbing happens. Even in schools kids are discredited, isolated and intimidated. Joel – living in the Swiss mountains near Gstaad - has found a special way to heal his wounds as a mobbing victim.

L'harcèlement existe. Même en école les élèves sont tracassés, isolés et intimidés. Joel – qui vit dans les montagnes Suisses près de Gstaad – a trouvé une manière spéciale pour guérir ses blessures psychiques.

Mobbing passiert. Auch in den Schulen werden Schülerinnen und Schüler gequält, isoliert und eingeschüchtert. Joel – der in den Schweizer Bergen in der Nähe von Gstaad wohnt – hat eine spezielle Methode gefunden, um seine Mobbing-Wunden zu heilen.

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Italy : "I am your friend"

Hello friends, here is the entry from Italy.
The song was written by us celebrating the 5 year of the project.
My students have grown up with this project and they are happy to
think to have so many friends along the Europe.
We hope, you will enjoy the video!

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Lithuania : “O Lia, Lia, Lia“

Yippee!
The grass was green. But
The powdery snowflakes.
Covered whole greenness.
Where did the grass and a little ant disappear?
Where did forests and voices of birds disappear?
It is covered with the snow.
Hundreds of lizards and little bugs are sleeping.
That's just winter!

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Finland : "If children could decide"

Here is this year's entry from Finland! The song is about the sad fact that the adults often cause fights and wars. If children could decide, there wouldn't be any of those sad things, but everyone could be happy and see the Sun! We hope you will enjoy the video!

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Scotland : "Let's Go To The Opera"

Imagine it's the year 1865. Two young boys decide to take a trip to the opera. It's a long show - more than 4 hours - but they enjoy it, more than some of the audience! But, the star of the show is the "fat lady" who gives a great performance at the end. We hope you enjoy the story, and sing along with us!

We'd like to thank MusicLine Publications for allowing the use of the song.

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The Netherlands : "Hallo wereld" ("Hello world")

We'd like to present our video 'Hallo wereld' ('Hello world')!
A song about how we should live and work together!
We had a lot of fun recording the song and making the video!
We hope you like it! Good luck to you all!

Greetings from all the kids and teachers from 'De Opslach'!

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Bosnia and Herzegovina : "Bosno moja divna, mila"

Presented by Primary school Camil Sijaric. Enjoy the video!

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Malta : "Let Me Fly"

Hello Schoolovisioners! Here is the Maltese song.
How boring life would be without music! Our world is more beautiful because music makes it so. It brings peace to the soul, encourages imagination and opens the gate of our dreams. Music expresses feelings which cannot be put into words. Music helps us forget all our worries and keeps the flame of our lives burning. Without music we would die.

Hope you enjoy our song.

Best Wishes to all from Malta.

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