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Read the whole article by The Guardian here, to see all the opinions and comments from different people that have been as brave as to do that.
“What are the benefits of being European for a young Scottish person?” That was the main topic of this competition set by the Scottish European Educational Trust (SEET) aimed to young students from all around Scotland.
A group of four S3 pupils from Cardinal Newman High School, Holly McIntyre, Louise McCann, Jennifer Wardale and Kelsey Wilson, passed the preliminary phases of this competition, hence getting the opportunity to go to a Day Workshop in Glasgow, on Monday the 14th of March.
Holly, Louise, Jennifer and Kelsey had been working on their idea, storyboard and script for some time, and it was with high excitement that on Monday 14 they attended the Workshop, in the Society M, Renfield st. Only later during the day, they admitted being surprised about the little amount of groups that were finalists with them!
During the morning, there were some basic introductions by the project coordinator, and a short speech of two young European women from Xchange Scotland, who talked about some exciting opportunities volunteering around Europe. After that, a media professional from Glo Scotland gave the pupils some key advices on filming and editing.
The rest of the day was occupied by the girls with the filming and editing of their short film. It was an enjoyable and challenging experience all together, and the girls themselves confessed at the end of it, that they were pleased about their work, although they struggled a bit and were a bit worried at first about not being able to film and edit everything in time.
It was a stimulating and interesting experience all together, and all four, Holly, Louise, Jennifer and Kelsey are excited about attending the Premiere and Award Ceremony which will take place on Monday the 21st of March. They are looking forward to seeing all the finished films and finding out who the winners are.
Every year, from the 1st until the 19th of March, there is in Valencia a very famous festival called Fallas, which is a strange tradition of faith and fire, with many characteristic traits such as ninots, cardboard and wooden sculptures, that can be seen in almost every area of the city and that by the end of the fiest will be burnt down; religious processions to Our Lady, la Virgen de la Caridad, by every brotherhood of this festival, and, fireworks, tones of fireworks.
If you find this remotely interesting, don´t hesitate to go to the link below to see a bit more information about these festival. Information about the fallas from the official Tourism webpage of Valencia
Below, the video shows a mascletà that th city threw on the 29th of February of this year, in order to call the UNESCO’s attention, about the possibility of making the Fallas a Cultural and Intangible Cultural Heritage. How important this sound to you? And how noisy!?
About the usual question of: Why doing fireworks during the day instead of night? You should now that they don´t have day fireworks instead of night ones, but in addition to. As we were saying: a crazy festival, but also a very interesting one.
The Cardinal Newman High School group of 4 S3 pupils, Louise McCann, Holly McIntyre, Jennifer Wardale and Kelsey Wilson, which is participating in the SEET competition has passed to the next phase of the Our Europe competition. They will be going to a Day Workshop in the SocietyM (CitizenM Hotel) in Glasgow on Monday the 14th of March. There they will film their short story about Scottish people being European. After that, they will attend to a Showcase and an Award Ceremony on Monday the 21st of March, in the Scottish Parlament, in Edinburgh. Our best wishes to our girls, but they already deserve our congratulations for having arrived so far
