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A special song by the Polish students
To promote eTwinning project and cooperation
among our schools, the Polish partners created a
special eTwinning—contest song. The British partners are going to create music to it.
We never fall down
Welcome to the third edition of the eU-topical newsletter written for you by eTwinning teams in schools from
England, Spain, Poland, Germany and Slovenia.
Because we live in Zawiercie town.
If you want to be our friend,
Put your habds n our hands.
Now we go away
ISSUE 3, January 2008
To Britain, Germany, Slovenia and Spain.
What a beautiful morning
What a beautiful day.
...in this edition:
I've got a wonderful feeling
Page 1 - e-Twinning song
Page 1 - Top Ten songs from the partner countries
Page 2 - Music-our way of spending free time - survey
results
Page 2 - Music at the Royal Grammar School
Page 2 - Music scene in Slovenia
Page 3 - What is hip-hop?
Page 3 - ‘Feel’ - Polish favourite band
Page 3 - Music– continuation from page 2
Page 4 - The Day of Peace
Page 4 - Spanish students’ opinions about music
Everything's going in my way.
The world is a rainbow
That's filled with many colours
Yellow, black, white and brown
You see them all around.
E-twinning is a great chance
To get to know you all at once.
E-twinning is for you
E-twinning is for us
School
band in
Oberha
usen
E-twinning is connecting people in village or town
Doesn't matter where you live
Doesn't matter where you are from
TOP TENS..... in music
1 Lady Gaga Just Dance
rry
e
P
y
Kat
e‘s
2 Kid Cudi Vs Crookers
Day 'n' Nite 3 Tinchy Stryder Ft Taio
Cruz Take Me Back 4 James Morrison/Nelly Furtado
Broken Strings
5 Saturdays Issues 6 Kevin Rudolf Ft
Lil Wayne Let It Rock 7 Beyonce Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) 8 Kings
Of Leon Use somebody 9. Pink Sober
10.Kanye
West
Heartless
1. Hot'n'cold, Katy Perry
2. Broken strings, James
Moris and Nelly Furtado
3.Run, Leona Lewis 4.
Warm this winter, Gabriella Cilmi
5.
Gotta be somebody, Nickelback
6.
Absolutely positively, Anastacia 7. Wire
to wire, Razorlight 8. Greatest day,
Thake that 9. SI OK, Jan Plestenjak
10.Hallelujah, Alexandra Burke
op
Eur urite!
favo
1. Kasia Nosowska– Kto
tam u ciebie jest? 2.
Beyonce– If I were a Boy
3.
Katy
Perry–
Hot’N’Cold 4. Patrycja Markowska–
Deszcz 5. Edyta Górniak– To nie tak jak
myślisz 6.Morandi– Save Me 7. Armin van
Buuren ft. Sharon van Del– In And Out Of
Love 8. Kasia Kowalska– A ty czego chcesz?
9. Britney Spears– Womanizer 10. The
Killers– Human
1.Polarkreis18
- allein
Allen 2.Katy Perry Hot n Cold 3. Pink - So
What 4. Britney Spears - Womanizer 5.
Beyonce - If I were a boy 6. Amy
macdonald - this is the life 7. Curse Mit
silbermond - bis zum schluss
8.
Reamonn - Through the eyes of a child
9. Rosenstolz - Gib mir sonne
10.
Herbert Grönemeier- Glueck
1. Amaia
Montero
“QUIERO SER”
2. Beyonce Knowles “If I
Were A Boy”
3. Estopa
“Hemicraneal” 4. Coldplay “Viva La Vida”
5. El Canto del Loco “Peter Pan” 6.
SCRIPT The “The Man Who Can't Be
Moved” 7. Katy Perry ”I Kissed A Girl 8.
Juanes “Odio Por Amor” 9. La Oreja de
Van Gogh “Inmortal”
10. Onerepublic
“Stop And Stare
Str. 2
Slovenian pupils like to
listen to Rock at home,
the others prefer Pop.In
Music - our way of spending free time !
Our survey had 575
responses
from
pupils in 5 countries.
Poland
and
Slovenia
Parents do not like to
listen to music.
The
results
were
clear: they all like
music with 80-90%
stating
that
they
listen to it very often.
About 50-60% percent
have been to a live
concert but most get
their music from 'other'
sources. 60% of British
pupil but it whereas
hardly
any
Spanish
pupils are willing to pay
for their tracks, but
prefer the radio or free
internet downloads. The
shop-bought CD seems
to be on its way out.
popular among British
pupils but less so in
Poland
or
Slovenia.
When it comes to how
we hear our music, the
clear winner is the
computer. The iPod or
MP3 player is extremely
Again, only 1 teenager in
10 still listens to music
on a CD player.
(To be continued
at page 3)
Music at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
EUROVISION SONG
CONTEST
We wish Poland and
Slovenia all the best in
the semi-finals of the
Eurovision
Song
Contest in Moscow on
Saturday, 16th of May,
2009. Germany, Spain
and
the
United
Kingdom have already
qualified for the final.
RGS has had a long
and distinguished
tradition of musicmaking and a
number of RGS
musicians have had
successful careers in
music. The music
department includes
two studios, the
‘Queens Hall’, a large
school hall and a
Technology Room,
enabling pupils to use
new technologies and
record their own
music. The school
also hosts seasonal
concerts, where
many young
musicians from the
school perform. The
music department
also performs during
the annual school
production and the
sixth form leaver’s
production.
The school has
produced two famous
pop musicians and
many other talented
composers and
musicians over time.
The music scene in Slovenia
Vlado Kreslin– famous
Slovenian musican.
Music means a lot to us
all and so there are
numerous musical events
at our school throughout
the year. There are
concerts of our school
band, various
performances of rock, pop
and classical music, we
also have a choir. The
most important event that
includes music is
undoubtedly Primafest.
Primafest is an event that
is yearly organised by
First Gymnasium Maribor.
It offers many interesting
festivities such as
concerts, drama plays,
artistic performances,
lectures and so on.
Dijaška skupnost (Pupils
community), who
organises this event,
contacts and invites many
famous people within their
field of expertise for
example last year they
invited a very famous
Slovenian musician Vlado
Kreslin and they also gave
an opportunity to the
school band.
Every year Primafest
attracts
many
pupils,
not just
from
Prva
Str. 3
What is hip-hop?
Hip Hop is an art
form that includes
DJing, emceeing/
rapping,
breakdancing and
grafitti art. These
art forms as we know
them today
originated in the
South Bronx section
of New York City
around the mid
1970s. Hip Hop has
thrived within the
subculture of Black
and Puerto Rican
communities in New
York and is now just
recently beginning to
enjoy widespread
exposure. From a
that helped curtail
gang violence due
to the fact that many
adults found it
preferrable to channel
their anger and
aggressions into
these into these art
forms which eventually
became the ultimate
expression of one's
self.
sociological
perspective, Hip
Hop has been one
of the main
contributing factors
Ja-
kub
Wu-
darczyk.
FEEL– POLISH FAVOURITE BAND
‘Feel’ is the Polish
POP group founded in
Katowice, Poland in
May 2005. Its first
name was Q2, then it
renamed to the Q3,
later Kupicha Band and
finally Feel. In 2007,
the group received the
Amber Nightingale and
Public Nightingale
Awards on Sopot
Festival 2007. The
leader of the group is
Piotr Kupicha. The
band consists of 4
persons:
Piotr Kupicha - vocal,
guitar, Łukasz Kożuch –
keyboard, Michał Nowak
– bass gitar, Michał
This band is very
popular not only in
Poland, but also all the
world. Their songs are
listened to by children,
youth, adults, and even
the elderly. People are
crazy about them. They
mad on their concerts.
They buy CDs with their
songs and hang posters
on the walls. Youth
queue for hours to get
their autograph.
Opaliński –drums.
Piotr Kupicha
Music – our way of spending free time ! Continued from page 2
So
what
are
we
listening to?
Pop and
Rock
are
the
most
popular with Dance a
clear third. Dance is not
at all popular in Germany
and Classical music is not
widely
listened
to
anywhere.
Can
we
play
an
i n s t r u m e n t
ourselves?
Yes, is the
answer in Spain with 9
pupils out of ten claiming
to be able to play
something - in Poland by
contrast only 1 in 5 plays
and
instrument.
Does this explain why the
Spanish
are
so
enthusiastic about music
l e s s o n s
i n
school? 90% love them
whereas in Slovenia 65%
would rather not be in
the music lesson at all.
Marcs Band!
German school band
If we are looking for a
reason why the Spanish
love their music so much,
maybe we can look at the
results for parents: about
90% of Spanish parents
like their music whereas
in Slovenia only every
fifth parent has the same
enthusiasm.
This
has
been
a
fascinating
look
at
attitudes
to
music
MP3 PLAYERS
MP3 players are very popular
among teenagers in Poland. The
most popular makes of MP3
players are Creative and Sony,
because they are cheap and the
sound quality is good. These
MP3 players are suitable for us
because we are able to afford
them based on our pocket
money. Teenagers usually use
their MP3 players on the way to
and from school. They are the
most
popular
ways of listening to music.
Bartek Wilk
Slovenian anthem
written by France
Prešeren:
Live, oh live all nations,
Who long and work for
that bright day,
When o'er earth's
habitations,
No war, no strife shall
hold its sway;
Who long to see,
That all men free,
No more shall foes, but
neighbours be.
a translation by Slovenian
students
WE UNITE WITH
VICTIMS OF WARS ON
THE DAY OF PEACE
To celebrate The Day of Peace
Spanish students and teachers will
write a message and paint their
hands on a big white sheet on the
wall.
All of us should do something special on the Day of Peace.
Have a moment of reflexion while
reading the song text:
We all want to unite with many
innocent people suffering because of
the cruel war in Gaza and many other
victims of wars all over the world. We
are singing the song ‘Imagine’
by John Lennon.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
RADIO STATIONS IN
MARIBOR, SLOVENIA:
‘Imagine’ is an
utopian-themed song,
which appeared on
Lennon's album in
1971. It is recognised
as one of the greatest
songs of all time.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Canary Students’s points of view about Music
Most of our Canary
students like Reggeaton Music:
Don Omar,
from Caribe or
Puerto Rico. My favourite band is
Wisin y Yandel, because they are the
best.
“ My own feeling on
the subject is that
A Lo Cubano was excellent. I loved
the combination of
hip-hop with traditional afro-cuban
percussion”.
“My favourite band
is ORISHAS that
makes me crazy”.
el Pentágono, Wisin
% Yandel, Noriega
Hector Hernández
Torres.
“I think that my
Favorite music is
Reggaeton because
the rhythm is cool,
it is easy to dance
in pair or alone, I
like this music
Yainier:
As I am Cuban, my
favorite music is a
little Hip-hop,
Salsa, Reggaeton,
Rock, Merengue etc.
.. the lyrics are
are full of
erotiism.
Jessica Ramos Díaz
“I have no doubt
that my favorite
singer is: Merche,
because her music
is romantic and
peaceful, it makes
me feel happy”.