Schoolovision 2016: Netherlands

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

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

Friday, 22 April 2016

the Netherlands - Living in the Future

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Awards

Global Junior Challenge

eLearning

eTwinning Award 2010

Medea Award 2012

eTwinning Award 2013

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