Schoolovision 2011: Belgium

Our school is located in the heart of Cyprus, near the Troodos Mountains, in a village called Agros. It was built in 1930, but it was fully renovated in 1992 and now it is a modern building with a playing yard and a beautiful garden full of roses, as our village is famous for its roses. Our school has 53 students; all in primary age (6-11). We are looking forward to participating in the competition and listen to all European songs. If you want to learn more about our school and see our photos, visit

2009 position - 17th
2010 position - 14th
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Iceland are represented once again 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. In both 2009 and 2010, Iceland's songs were wonderful productions, and as they won the competition in 2010, they go into 2011 defending their title. Can they win again?
2009 position - 4th
2010 position - 1st
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Late news: Iceland have withdrawn from the 2011 contest.

Back for the 3rd year, the Latvian school, Jelgava Primary, has 600 pupils aged from 5-16 and has 15 nationalities. A truly international school! In 2009, they finished 12th in Schoolovision, with the lovely Russian song, "Barinya". It was a colourful video, with the children in national dress. Then, in 2010, they again sung in Russian, with their version of "The Flying Swings."

Both songs were very well received by the co-ordinator's children and Russian wife! Will we see them sing in Russian again in 2011?
2009 position - 12th
2010 position - 16th
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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Belgium - I'm into folk!

Hello to all Schoolovisioners!

We had a lot of fun singing this Belgian folksong and we hope you all like it!

The song keeps getting better and the videoclips keeps getting funnier, so please turn up the volume, start dancing and watch it untill the end!

You can view our HD-video://www.vimeo.com/22666518 or our normal quality video here:

Schoolovision Belgium from Qworzó on Vimeo.

We want to thank Galley Head for playing the instruments and Bart Peeters for writing the song!

Good luck to everybody in the contest!

Kind Belgian regards!

The kids from Qworzó

9 Comments:

Ive Hapers said...: I hope we hear a lot 'Belgium 12 points'! Good luck you all. I really like the song and the clip. All the best!; 8 May 2011 at 21:57
Michael said...: Brilliant Dave- I love this song!

It has mesmerised our children this evening, who have watched it repeatedly. Tomorrow, my pupils will judge it.

Well done and Good Luck!; 8 May 2011 at 22:06
Steffen said...: Wow!

Hey hey, I was into folk before, already. But now I'm even more.

This is just gorgeous!

I couldn't stop smiling while watching this. And since it's not me who's voting I can frankly say here: I've found my favourite!

Thanks for this enormous fun and good luck for Friday!; 8 May 2011 at 23:46
Anonymous said...: it's a good movie and hopefully you guys win
:)

sven; 9 May 2011 at 15:30
Marek Fularz said...: Is it folk from Belgium?; 9 May 2011 at 18:37
Greece said...: Thank you kids for the good words for Greece....You are also awesome....!Your song is great and you are very cute kids....
Good luck to you from Greece!; 9 May 2011 at 19:34
Dave Schrauwen said...: Marek,

Although it has an Irish sound, we wanted to perform this song because is was written by a Belgian artist and because we like the message in the song: "Hip-hop seems trendy, but folk can be much more fun from time to times too!"

Thanks to all for all the kind words written above!; 9 May 2011 at 20:17
sbo de Bolder said...: Hallo vrienden uit het Zuiden,

Wij vinden jullie clip erg mooi en creatief!
We waren onder de indruk van de menselijke vlag.

Heel veel succes vrijdag!

Groetjes uit Franeker, Nederland; 10 May 2011 at 07:57
Anonymous said...: This video is cool!

From Patrick Pfaff; 11 May 2011 at 11:48

Project history

Schoolovision is now into its 3rd year, having been created early in 2009, as an 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.

Who will triumph in 2011? Let the fun begin!

A big, warm hug once again 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 is near Évora, the very beautiful World Heritage city. If you want to visit us then please 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!
2009 position - 19th
2010 position - 26th

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