Saturday, 26 May 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
The SV12 champions are...
Congratulations to the whole Schoolovision team of countries for a fantastic contest in 2012!
The votes have been counted, and the results are as follows!
Pupils from Høknes school in Norway celebrate the moment they learned they were crowned champions!
| PLACE | COUNTRY | POINTS |
| 1st | Norway | 288 |
| 2nd | Ukraine | 206 |
| 3rd | Spain | 188 |
| 4th | Scotland | 182 |
| 5th | Austria | 160 |
| 6th | Germany | 148 |
| 7th | Iceland | 130 |
| 8th | Czech Republic | 96 |
| 9th | Georgia | 87 |
| 10th | Bosnia Herzegovina | 72 |
| 11th | Poland | 70 |
| 12th | Russia | 61 |
| 13th | Italy | 56 |
| 14th | Cyprus | 54 |
| 15th | Estonia | 52 |
| 16th | Hungary | 41 |
| 17th | Belgium | 39 |
| 18th | Basque Country | 36 |
| 19th | Latvia | 32 |
| 20th | Greece | 28 |
| 21st | Netherlands | 27 |
| 22nd | England | 21 |
| 23rd | Denmark | 20 |
| 24th | Ireland | 19 |
| 25th | Bulgaria | 16 |
| 26th | Finland / Sweden / Turkey | 12 |
| 29th | Luxembourg | 10 |
| 30th | Romania / Wales | 7 |
| 32nd | Lithuania | 6 |
| 33rd | Portugal | 4 |
| 34th | France | 3 |
| 35th | Malta / Slovakia | 1 |
| 37th | Azerbaijan / Croatia | 0 |
The pupils in Norway celebrate as they hear the news!I can only say a huge thank you to Steffen and his pupils for stepping in at the last minute to host today's Flashmeeting! You did really brilliantly- as did everyone else- so well done!
And it's a huge CONGRATULATIONS to NORWAY- to Jan Kare and his team for their FANTASTIC and WONDERFUL song, which captivated the children from across Europe.
I will be in touch over the weekend to arrange the posting of the trophy to you there in Høknes!
If you wish, you can watch the replay of the live vote here!
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Friday, 18 May 2012
France - Ecole de Florentin - Armstrong (Claude Nougaro)
Here is the French song for schoolovision 2012 ! Claude Nougaro was born in the South of France, in Toulouse (80 km from our village), and he was one of the first white french singers to sing blues. He sung this song in homage to Louis Armstrong. Each year, many French pupils learn and sing this song. We love it very much and we hope you'll love it too !
Russia - Sapozhki
Dear all!
We are a small private language school "Prometey" from Russia. We are really happy to participate in Schoolovision 2012!
We loved all the videos that take part in Schoolovision 2012 and thank you all for this amazing experience!
We are sending you all our love with one of our favourite Russian songs "Sapozhki".
Join us, dance and sing, have fun and learn a bit of Russian!
We are a small private language school "Prometey" from Russia. We are really happy to participate in Schoolovision 2012!
We loved all the videos that take part in Schoolovision 2012 and thank you all for this amazing experience!
We are sending you all our love with one of our favourite Russian songs "Sapozhki".
Join us, dance and sing, have fun and learn a bit of Russian!
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Wales / Cymru - Sing Out Loud
Croeso gynnes i bawb!
A great big hello from Wales.
Here is our Schoolovision 2012 entry. Sing out Loud by Einion Dafydd and Cefin Roberts.
This year, we are singing a new song from the Can Sing project (www.cansing.org.uk)
A fantastic resource for teaching singing whether you speak Welsh or not!
Proud of my country of who I am.
‘Hen wlad fy nhadau Heniaith fy mam.
This is our anthem ‘Gwlad garwyr tra mad’.
Let’s sing together Gwlad! Gwlad!
It says it all.
Good luck to all 39 entries this year.
Pob lwc i bawb!
Iceland - Stand up!
Hello all
What a wonderful videos we have here this year and so diffrent. We really enjoy watching them and feel the various culture. Our song this year is alittle rapp song about boys who are encouraging themselves to bebrave and enjoy live. The name of the song is "Stand up". It is a new melody connected to Eurovision compitition in Iceland this year. Seven boys in fourth grade are singing the song inIcelandic with their class and they also got some help from the 5th gradeconnecting the choreography. About 50 children took part in this project and all of them really enjoyed participating and theyare now anxious to see all the other videos and take part in the voting on Fridaythe 25th of May.
Enjoy and good luck to you all.
Teachers and students in Flataskoli, Gardabaer, Iceland
Spain - Vivo en un archipiélago (I live in an archipelago)
Hello everyone,
We are from Valsequillo, a small and beautiful village in Gran
Canaria.
Gran Canaria is one of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic
Ocean.
We are from Spain.
We are from Spain.
The song we sing “Vivo en un Archipiélago” ( I live in an
Archipelago) is from the Canarian singer named, Manuel Negrín
(Pololo) and it’s about life on our islands, which people often refer to
as the "fortunate Islands”, and its wonderful people. In the video,
you can see our breathtaking landscapes as well as, our traditional
clothing, dances, and games.
All of our pupils (286) have taken part in this project, from the
youngest (3 years old) to the oldest.
We had a lot of fun throughout the process of preparing and recording
our video.
We would like to thank all of the teachers, the families,
the town council, the music school and all of the people who have
collaborated in this dream.
Participating in the Schoolovision experience has brought everyone in
our village even closer together than we already
were!
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
TURKEY - ZEYTINYAGLI Türkiye 2012
Hello to all Schoolovisioners from Turkey!
For our first year in Schoolovision, our students wanted to sing a Turkish folk song for you. We will post the Turkish and English translated lyrics of the song in a very short while. However, for now I can give you a clue about it that it's a song of a young girl in love and also telling about some of her favorite Turkish traditional dishes.
Hope you
enjoy it and good luck to you all ! =)
Belgium - Ik neem je mee (I take you with me on a trip)
Hello from Belgium to all Schoolovisioners!
This year the students at our school wanted to sing asong in native Dutch again. The song istitled “Ik neem je mee” (I want to take you on a trip!) and is a rap-love-song!
We translated the whole text in English, but since itwould be too long to post here, follow this link to the HD version of our videoclip and you can find the lyrics below!The song and videoclip keep getting better, so pleaseturn up the volume, start dancing and watch it untill the end!
You can view our HD-video: http://vimeo.com/42141373 or our normalquality video here:Belgian entry for Schoolovision 2012 from qworzoL6A on Vimeo.
We want to thank Dien and Birte (two pupils from ourschool) for teaching us this great dance and Gers Pardoel for allowing us tocover his amazing song!
Good luck to everybody in the contest!
Kind Belgian regards!
The kids from Qworzó
Good luck to everybody in the contest!
Kind Belgian regards!
The kids from Qworzó
Ukraine- Carpathians
We are extremely happy to present our project to all schoolovisioners! Our pupils of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades sing the song "Carpathians". We have chosen this song as it best describes our beautiful land and has the rhythm of Bukovinian national dancing. The dancing was choreographed by our primary school teacher Natalia Podorozhna.
In the chorus of our song it says, "I have wings because I am growing in the Carpathians where the eagle flies. I have blue eyes because in Ukraine the skies, the nights and the water are blue. I have golden hair like wheat because Ukrainian autumn is golden. I have a ringing voice because I am a Ukrainian girl. I feel sorry for those who don't like me":)
Best wishes to all participants!
The Ukrainian team from Chernivtsi specialised school #22.
Poland - Tato (Dad)
Hello from Poland again. It's great pleasure to see all your fantastic songs and videos.
We would like to present you the song about Dad (originally by Polish children group Arka Noego): "I'm not afraid when it is dark, my father led me by the hand".
This year more than 50 students has been involved in project activities. Students from class 2B were singers. Students from class 3A played thin whistles.
Guitar - Marek Fularz.
Students of 5th and 6th grades made animations in Scratch software.
Music recorded in GarageBand on iPad by Marek Fularz.
Monday, 14 May 2012
Scotland- I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)
Come a-singing with us, as we march for (almost) 500 miles around our village of Gifford, meeting shop workers and the local minister on the way!
We are singing a very famous Scottish song, released by The Proclaimers, who actually recorded some of their work in the same studio we sang this song in!
Can you keep up with us?
NOTE: To haver = Scots word meaning to talk nonsense!
Ireland - C'est La Vie
Hello Europe,
This is our version of C'est La Vie by the Irish pop group B*witched. It spent six weeks at Number 1 in the Irish charts in 1998. Our kids have worked very hard and had great fun recording the song and making the video. We hope you enjoy it and we wish everyone the best of luck in this year's schoolovision!!
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Bulgaria - Stano, Stano
Hello dear friends,
Bulgaria is well known all over the world with the special musical rythms and wonderful voices. There are plenty of national songs that worth introducing but we decided to perform
a folklore song named " Stano, Stano" ( Stano - it is a girl`s name). We hope everybody will feel and enjoy the playful and naughty melody.
Friday, 11 May 2012
Norway - Ærlighet varer lengst
Høknes school in Norway is very pleased to be a part of the Schoolovision-project. Our song "Ærlighet varer lengst" (Eng: "Honesty is the best policy") is made by students in class 5, 6 and 7 at Høknes school (both the melody and the lyrics). In the process making this song we have got a lot of help from Rock City Namsos, a resource center for pop and rock. 180 students from 5th to 7th grade have taken part in this project. The song is about being honest, and about believes in oneself, and the song says it is important to follow your dreams. We hope you like the song and the video.
Cyprus - Efta tragoudia tha sou pw (I will sing seven songs for you)
Dear Schoolovisioners,
This is our entry song for 2012 from Agros Primary School in Cyprus. The song is in Greek language “EFTA TRAGOUDIA THA SOU PW” (I will sing seven songs for you). It is about boys and girls going for a walk and meeting each other. We enjoyed having our film recorded in our village with the bouzouki tones!! I hope you enjoy it, too. Best of luck to everybody!!! Niki
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Germany - Nur ein Wort (just one word)
Nur ein Wort - SV12 Germany from FSK
"Nur ein Wort" was the winning title out of 11 entries in our annual school singing festival.
Like with Schoolovision the number of participants but also the quality of the performances is increasing year by year and has meanwhile reached impressive standards.
After we received our "go" from the song writers "Wir sind Helden" we got to work. With this year's entry we wanted to produce a small declaration of love for our city of Kassel.
In our video you can see some of Kassel's popular sights like the Hercules statue which overlooks Kassel. It marks the highest point of "Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe", the largest hillside park in Europe.
Later the girls can be seen in front of the "Museum Fridericianum" which housed the first parliament on German territory. This was during the reign of Jérôme Bonaparte (1807-1813) when Kassel was the capital of the Kingdom of Westphalia.
Today this building is home of various exhibitions. Once in five years it becomes the centre of the dOCUMENTA exhibition which takes place again this summer and attracts visitors from around the world. The dOCUMENTA (meanwhile #13) left many traces in the cityscape like the "man walking to the sky".
Only a few steps away from there one can find the CARICATURA, our museum of funny art which erected the I-monument (ICH-Denkmal) during the "dOCUMENTA XII".
Apart from the tourist sights our video features:
- KONRAD, the newly introduced bike rental system in Kassel
- the OH!, which was made especially for this video from material like we use for our mattrasses
- of course our school and its neighbourhood Marbachshöhe
- and our sheep that the pupils, parents and staff take care of.
Though this was not "just one word" we still hope that you will enjoy our entry. And if you consider a visit to Kassel some day (or even during this summer to see the dOCUMENTA) we will most happily show you more of our home town.
England- Bobby Shaftoe
Dear Friends, Church Aston Infant school in England entry song for 2012. We are singing a traditional song 'Bobby Shaftoe'. This song is about a sailor and his truelove. The song is said to originate from the north of England. We had fun dressing up as pirates. Here is the 'uncut' version done in one take! We are enjoying everyone's songs this year and watch them in our school assemblies. Best of Luck to all. Annie
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Denmark- Our welfare song
Trivsels sangen from oleflemming on Vimeo.
About welfare in the school.
Schoolovision is a fine project. Thank you for letting us participate.
We loved to make the video. To add pictures to our own text was fun.
Good luck to everyone.
Kind regards Julie and Cathrine
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Monday, 7 May 2012
Malta - A Maltese Medley
The feast of St. Peter and St. Paul on June 29th, known as “L-Imnarja” marks an important event among Maltese popular festivities. “L-Imnarja” comes from the Italian word “luminaria” meaning “Festival of Light.” This recalls the illumination of the Mdina cathedral, the city walls of the Mdina old capital as a sign of rejoicing. In olden days, husbands committed themselves to taking their wives to this feast. An agricultural show of animals, vegetables, fruit, poultry and honey are held. Horse-racing competitions are still popular.
There is no feast without a marching band in Malta! The band marches along our streets playing joyful tunes, very often composed locally by the maestro.
Good Luck to All Participants from Malta!
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Slovakia - Let's Christmas party
Slovak Students
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Italy- Il Ballo di Pinocchio
Hello everybody,
Pinocchio is coming in your schools!! The Italian students had a great time recording the video and the parents helped me to prepare the costumes. I hope you will enjoy this video and you'll start to sing... PI..PInocchio .. night and day ... like I do.
Pinocchio is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (real name Carlo Lorenzini)an Italian writer. Since the author was Italian and the adventures take place in Italy, Pinocchio is closely related to the tradition of our country.
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