Schoolovision 2009...: Global Junior Challenge

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Saturday, 10 October 2009

Veni, vidi, vici! Our victory in Rome.

The final awards ceremony of the Global Junior Challenge took place in central Rome on Friday 9th October, in the prestigious Julius Caesar room of the Campidoglio City Halls.

A total of 109 projects from all over the world had been shortlisted as finalists, and the fantastic news from the awards was that Schoolovision 2009 was awarded 1st place in the "up to 15 years old" category!

In Rome, with the trophy, after winning the Global Junior Challenge.

To all the hundreds of children from all over Europe who took part in this wonderful project, and to all the project partners, I would like to say a huge "Thank you", for making it possible for Schoolovision to win such an amazing award.

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Global Junior Challenge 2009

We are proud to announce that Schoolovision 2009 has been named as a finalist in the Global Junior Challenge which will see the best projects announced at the final ceremony in Rome, on October 7-9th 2009.
Click for details of the final event.

Odda Primary School is located in Odda city. The oldest part of the school's building is from 1912, but has been refurbished and built on. In January 1998 we used a new, modern extension that includes all 6-year-olds and Children Day-care Center. In January 2003 we’ve got a new ICT- Center and school library. The school has 440 pupils and 65 adults are working there. Odda local authority has about 7100 inhabitants. We are an industrial city with two big factories; Boliden, a zinc company established in 1924, and Tinfos owned by the Eramet Group.

A big, warm hug from Portugal!
EB 2,3/S Cunha Rivara is situated in Arraiolos, a small village famous for its tapestry: Arraiolos Rugs. Arraiolos is in Alentejo which stays in Planícies (Plains) and it’s near Évora, World Heritage city very beautiful.
If you want to visit us visit this site: In these 7 videos you can see the city where I live, Évora, our gastronomy, our wine, our bread, heritage, main square, market, hotels, restaurants, Diana Temple, a roman temple, some historical places...you can also visit Évora by night and go to some exhibitions... listen to our music and travel!
5th Year will sing for all Europe celebrating joy and friendship with one of our traditional folk music.

School "Vladimir Streinu" Teiu is situated in southern Romania at a distance of 30 miles of city Pitesti, tulips’city, in Teiu village. Includes primary school cycle and secondary education cycle with a total of 100 children. Teiu School has a long history and strong bearing the name of a great Romanian poet “Vladimir Streinu”. In our school, nothing is coincidence: pupils are very good workers despite the precarious situation from which some of them, with much appetite for life and optimistic. They are proud of what they do and make everything thinking a better future for themselves and for their fellow pupils.

We are from Turkey. Our school, Nazire Merzeci Ilkogretim Okulu, is situated in İzmir where is the third biggest city of our country. It has a lot of tourist attractions and it is famous for its seaside. Our school was established 18 years ago. It is very large, it has about 1800 students aged 6-14. They are divided into two parts - the primary level (6-11) and the lower-secondary level (11-14). We love singing and look forward to uploading our song. Thanks a lot for the invitation and we will do our best. Good luck to everybody!
Our school website

Iceland are represented by Flataskoli Gardabaer which is situated not far from the capital of the island, Reykjavík.
Flataskoli is a primary school with 320 students aged 6 to 12 years old. It was established in 1958 so we are celebrating 50 years of our school this year. We are doing a lot of activities because of the 50th years anniversary and this is a good opportunity to do something different.

In late March, we held our school elimination round, called Flatovision, where many pupils sang songs and we chose a winner. So, the song we will sing is called "Open your Heart" and we hope you all enjoy listening to it in May.
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