'Speak With Your Own Voice' by Riverside Primary School

Описание: 'Speak With Your Own Voice' is an anti-bullying pop song written by children at Riverside Primary School, Hullbridge, Essex. We'd like to thank Headteacher Mr. Andy Douglas for having us in the school and Miss Kim Adams for her support and encouragement. Finally, well done to all the children who took part in the workshops. The contributions were, to coin a phrase, 'epic'! And we hope to come back to Riverside again.

About Bully Beat in Essex
Our second Bully Beat project in Essex primary schools is supported by the Essex Music Education Hub, with generous music technology support granted by Korg Education. Bully Beat has been designed to enthuse primary aged children about the process of lyric writing, singing, music arranging and contemporary production whilst promoting a serious anti-bullying message. We're using informal music education and literacy working to communicate a range of key messages. Every song is written by the children. We record, produce and publish the songs at the end of the process.

Bully Beat gives children the opportunity to think about the problem in a number of different ways, ways that are credible to them.

The three key messages are: Looking out for your peers, particularly the most vulnerable; how to report worries, and keeping yourself safe. We think that the more we talk about it, the stronger the anti-bullying message becomes. And when you transform those messages into song, they are amplified and all the more impactive. Every workshop produces a song that every child has contributed to.