Schoolovision 2016: Ireland

Welcome to the first amongst a number of new Schoolovision members this year! Great to have you old Vikings aboard our big ship!

Rangsby School is a small rural school located in the municipality of Saltvik on Åland Island. The school was opened in 1953 and renovated and extended in 2004. The municipal library is situated in the school. The school has 63 students from grades 1-6 and six teachers and a special education teacher. There are 10 pupils in 4th grade that will participate in Schoolovision 2016.
school website

Liceul Teoretic “George Moroianu” Sacele got the title of “European School” in 2015 for its curricular and extracurricular activity at national and international levels and it is one of the biggest schools in Brașov county, Romania. The city of Săcele is situated in the middle of the country, near Brasov city and next to the mountains, also to 60 km away from Dracula's Castle place, Bran. Săcele is a small touristic city, full of traditions and churches, surrounded by beautiful views and resorts. There are around 1000 students from 6 to 19 in our school and around 75 teachers.

school website

With the International School of Helsingborg we welcome new partners from Sweden.

They are all proud to be students at this school which was established in 1995 and has approximately 540 students between 3 and 19 years of age from Pre-school till Diploma Programme with International Baccalaureate. The teachers and pupils come from almost twenty different countries all over the world.
Their aim is to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.

school website

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Ireland - Dublin Saunter

We heard about this wonderful eTwinning project a few months ago and have enjoyed all the preparations leading up to posting our finished entry! The song is about our home town Dublin being our favourite place to be. We filmed some of the video in Stephens Green and Grafton Street. We hope the video gives you a taste of what Dublin is like. We are looking forward to seeing all our European friends' videos and taking part in the voting next week!

14 Comments:

Michael said...: Dublin looks absolutely beautiful! But, let's not overlook the lovely singing of your young children, who made a grand job of their song, and (as the young girl's top said) stole my heart!

Good luck from Scotland!; 3 May 2016 at 22:39
Steffen said...: Adorable! Great job, Emer.
High five to Anne for bringing you and SV together!; 4 May 2016 at 02:02
Ingrid Maadvere said...: You are so cute and Dublin looks lovely.

Good luck!

Ingrid from Estonia; 4 May 2016 at 11:13
valerie canty said...: Cute song, I love it !

Good luck from France!; 4 May 2016 at 11:54
Dunia said...: They are so cute! Good job!

Good luck from Spain, Canary Islands!

Dunia; 4 May 2016 at 20:49
Greece said...: How cute you are you guys....good luck...nice job!!!; 4 May 2016 at 21:43
Fanny said...: Cute song, and nice scenery from Dublin!
Good luck fron Norway!; 5 May 2016 at 11:40
Unknown said...: Students voices...
The music was really nice and we enjoyed the many beautiful background pictures. Good luck from Sweden=); 5 May 2016 at 15:46
Mayflower Primary School said...: How lovely to see Dublin in the spring sunshine with all your children smiling so happily! Your song has a wonderful message welcoming everyone to visit your city.
Good luck to you from all of us here at Mayflower!; 5 May 2016 at 22:49
Anonymous said...: I love your video and you all look so happy.
Good luck for the big day.
Catarina R, from Portugal; 6 May 2016 at 10:38
Unknown said...: Your kids are just delicious!!! And Dublin looks like a place where I like to live with my family! Good luck from Romania!; 6 May 2016 at 10:45
Carla Vieira Sampaio da Silva said...: First: a big hug to your lovely students...They are so fantastic!
I loved your video and perhaps one day I'll visit Dublin...what a great city!
Good luck from Portugal!; 11 May 2016 at 19:38
Andrew Smith said...: What a charming song and very well sung!

We loved your students' enthusiasm.

Well done Ireland,
From Wales!; 11 May 2016 at 23:00
Anonymous said...: Thank you for all your kind comments. We are loving this project and are very excited about seeing some of you tomorrow!

Emer and children in Malahide/Portmarnock ETNS
Dublin
Ireland; 12 May 2016 at 10:28

project history

Can you believe we are now into the 8th year of Schoolovision? Who would have thought of this when we started out in 2009, following along Michael's idea to link primary schools from across Europe using the eTwinning platform in a project based on the Eurovision Song Contest.

Each participating country has the chance to choose a song, sing it and video it, before uploading it to the blog by the cut-off date, usually around 1 week before the real ESC. Then, all the pupils in all the participating countries watch and evaluate all the songs, before voting for their own personal favourite, usually the day before the real ESC. For this extra special live vote, we use the webcam conferencing tool, FlashMeeting.

Schoolovision 2009! was the first year of the competition, with a total of 30 countries taking part. The winners were ZS Husova school from Brno in the Czech Republic, with their beautiful song Hejkal.

In 2010, we had a larger entry, with 34 countries eager to win Schoolovision 2010! The standards were extremely high, and the winning song in a nailbiting live-vote came from Flataskoli Gardabaer in Iceland. Their entry was this fantastic version of Abba's Dancing Queen.

Then, in 2011, our previous winners ZS Husova from Brno in the Czech Republic came roaring back, winning the 3rd edition of Schoolovision in fine style, with their outstanding entry, Jaro.

Then, in 2012, we expanded eastwards, with new entries from several countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan which helped take our total number of partners to 38, our largest to date. The standards also went up even further, and incredibly, all the top 3 entries came from new entrant schools! The winners were Hoknes barneskole, from Namsos in Norway, with Ærlighet varer lengst, a quite brilliant entry!

In 2013, our expansion east was recognised by eTwinning, and we were awarded a very special certificate for our "outstanding collaboration and contribution to eTwinning" at the European Conference in Lisbon. Two months later, and one of our newest countries, Israel, triumphed with an equally outstanding entry, their very own tribute to the only Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, lost in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster.

In 2014 our top stars from the Czech Republic won once again with their amazing Karneval entry. For the second time we conducted an additional teacher voting to honour our partners' commitment in pecial categories like environment or self-made song.

2015 saw a little change in our usual Schoolovision routines, as some of us took a break while the others entered their videos to a fun round without voting or placement.

The countries...

Åland Islands

Armenia

Austria

Basque Country

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cyprus

Czech Republic

England

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Iceland

Ireland

Israel

Israel 2

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

FYR Macedonia

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

Wales

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Ireland - Dublin Saunter

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