Peace is…

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The 9 students of 5th and 6th grade worked all together in the following way:
– First, during the English class, they discussed some opinions with their English teacher about peace and war.
– Then, they wrote down some keywords and the students made some sentences, expressing their opinion about the topic. The English teacher helped them with the grammar check, without intervening in their opinions.
– Furthermore, we learned how a recording is done, having a help by my laptop and capacitor microphone. The program we used is “Audacity”.
– Finally, the students made an order in these sentences as to make sense, giving the meaning of peace and made the recording with me having a supportive role.

Because of the school has no musical equipment, nor access to them, considering the fact that the students have no previous music education (during previous years there wasn’t a music teacher, because the school is minimal with only 21 students in total) it was really difficult to compose some music. Therefore, we discussed copyrights, we made research about platforms with music free copyrights and the students choose the music. So, from the platform “Royalty Free Music Downloads” (https://pixabay.com/music/), we used this song: https://pixabay.com/music/beautiful-plays-cinematic-documentary-115669/

It must be noted that the initial idea was the radio message to be a loop. But we discussed the reasons why this cannot happen. They insisted on a loop, so they decided to begin and end with the same phrase, as to give the feeling of a loop.

Here, you can read our radio message:
Peace is the highest of happiness.
Wait, wait, wait… What does peace mean?
Peace means freedom, justice, fairness, equality and development.
Peace is a way of life, in which we care, respect and love each other in spite of our culture, religion and political differences.
Living in peace is living in security, calmness and harmony.
Peace is a state, a way of life in which we live all together freely.
Peace means no fighting, no violence and no war.
War means pain, injuries, conflicts, guns and innocent deaths.
Make peace, no war.
Everyday choose to make peace.
And at the end of the day I think that…..
Peace is the highest of happiness.

School: ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟ ΣΧΟΛΕΙΟ ΚΡΑΝΕΑΣ