Friday 8 March 2013

Welcome to Our Blog!!



Welcome to the Balbriggan ETNS Our World Irish Aid Awards blog. The theme of our blog is "Education for all the World's Children" which is the second Millennium Development Goal. 

Read on if you would like to:


  • Try our interactive Irish Aid Quiz
  • Watch videos of some of our students and staff telling stories about going to school in another country
  • Watch our "Educate Us All" video (song/rap)
  • Check out some interesting links to the Irish Aid website and other relevant sites
We hope you have fun and learn about the work of Irish Aid, some of the reasons why children in the world don't get a primary education and what you can do about it.  Please feel free to leave comments on our posts.

The BETNS Our World Irish Aid Awards Team


Thursday 7 March 2013

Irish Aid Interactive Quiz

We're finally finished our Irish Aid Quiz!

If you want to check it out, click here. If you really enjoyed it, please leave a comment on this post!



School Around the World!

Welcome to the Our World Irish Aid Awards interview post.  
The purpose of our interviews was to show the positive experiences that children have in schools all over the world.  We interviewed children and staff who went to school in other countries or whose parents went to school in other countries.  The planning, recording and editing of the interviews was hard work but we enjoyed it and learned a lot from the process.  Enjoy watching the videos below!


Nigeria



Pakistan



Poland


China


Turkey




 
Hungary


Bosnia


Zimbabwe

Our Rap/Song: Educate Us All

The theme of this year's Our World Irish Aid Awards is 'Education for the All the World's Children'.  Guided by the project team, the three 6th Classes in Balbriggan ETNS have composed a song and rap in solidarity with the children of the world who don't get a full primary education.  It is written by children for children.  Please read the lyrics below and enjoy watching the rap or the full song! Why not sing along or learn it with your class?!

Our Rap


The Full Song

Educate Us All
(Sung to the music of We Are the World)

Children are here, to make a better world
So we all must come together to learn.
There are children crying, ‘cause we can’t pursue our dreams - at all
Now you must hear our call.

We cannot live, without learning day by day
That together, somehow we can make a change.
We are all a part of the world’s great family
And the truth, you know school is all we need.

CHORUS:
We are the world, we are the children,
We have the right to follow all our dreams so let’s start learning.
We can build our future just educate us now,
Then we can make a better world for you and me.

Yeah let us all learn, so we know we have the right
To have fun, be heard and never to fight.
So hear us all out, so we can succeed in life
Right now so we can build our self-esteem.

CHORUS
Nous se monde le, we are the children,
We have the right to follow all our dreams so let’s start learning.
We can build our future just educate us now,
Then we can make a better world for you and me.

Just remember this we can be someone in life
If we go to school and learn to not be cruel
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Realise that a change can only come
When we learn together as one!

CHORUS X4

RAP:
We all need somebody that we can learn from,
When we wake up let’s take a book and we can read some.
Education will help us make it through the storm,
When the floor breaks, a magic carpet to stand on.
We are the World united by love so strong
We’ve wanted education for all for so long
A guiding light on the dark road we’re walking on
A sign post to find the dreams we thought were gone.
Something to help us move the obstacles we stumble on
Someone to teach us the things that we don’t know
We are the World connected by a common bond
Listen! Educate us, educate us, educate us all!

CHORUS

RAP Part II

Everyday children get no education
You and I, you and I get educated and give ourselves a better life
Let’s go to school so we can learn how to multiply
Become free so we can fly like a butterfly.
Education, education
We need it, we need it, we need it!

CHORUS

Irish Aid, Irish Aid, Irish Aid

Thank You!!

FINALLY!!! We've sent off all of our work to the judges and we can't wait for us to get our results back. It's been a long journey but it was most definitely worth it. Special thanks to Beth for outstanding support through the whole thing, Man Man and Dan for helping us SOOO much in every technical aspect, Orlagh for  taking lots of photos and making up an awesome dance, Paschal for being a really good audio manager and all the sixth classes for writing and performing a brilliant song!



Join us on our Our World Irish Aid Awards 2013 Journey!

This is what we've been getting up to over the past two months preparing our blog for the Our World Irish Aid Awards:

-We formed our project team
-We made lots of plans
-We researched our topics
-We did a LOT of work on the computer
-We designed and programmed an interactive Irish Aid quiz
-We created a blog
-We wrote, sang and recorded a song
-And we enjoyed every bit of it!!!

Here are some pictures:






The Last Day!

We are working very hard to finish the Irish Aid Awards entry we will enter into the competition.
Oisìn and Kuba are working extremely hard to finish the Irish Aid quiz. 
Daniel is finishing up the diary and Salha is finishing editing the Music Video.
David is researching the last few bits of information.  We are learning a lot from this project.