Peace

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The children embraced the idea of participating in the competition, along with schools from Cyprus Greece and other countries. They looked forward to creating their own song.
The creation of the song started with a brainstorm on the topics of “peace and war” by 12 students from groups 6 and 13. Each group initially worked separately with their teacher. Then we all gathered and by guiding the children with open-ended questions, they responded accordingly and their answers were noted down. The next step was to organize the phrases and words into song lyrics. This task, took place in a smaller group of 2 students from group 6, where we tried out different combinations of the given words and phrases based on semantics and rhyme. For the music composition, 2 students from group 12, were guided to put together a chosen rhythm and chord progression based on their favorite music genre, and through trying out a variety of rhythms and chord progressions. For the performance, 2 students were chosen, one from group 13 and one from group 8. The recordings took place at the school, during a music therapy session. The sound was processed by the music teacher.
The poster was produced by group 6, during a class project on “peace”.
All participant students enjoyed the process, said that they liked the final product, and that they look forward to listening the songs from other schools!

PEACE
Anger, Fear, violence, terror, children, killings, refugees
No hope, everyone looses
Weapons, hunger, thirst, war, dictatorship, pain, sorrow, death
Every trace of hope turns to ashes, everyone looses

Listen to your heart, embrace the world
The world becomes paradise when I see you smile

Children don’t play freely out in the neighbourhood anymore, they only play war video games
Where is the dream, where is peace, is there hope anywhere?
Peace is found in nature, peace hides in the heart
Peace exists in moments of happiness, and within a smiling child

Listen to your heart, embrace the whole world
The world becomes paradise when I see you smile

Skole: Nicosia Special School– Ειδικό Σχολείο Λευκωσίας