Teenage students record anti-ISIS music video at Houses of Parliament

Eleanor Cunningham6 March 2016

Year 10 students from Leyton have recorded a music video called 'Cold as ISIS' during a school trip to the Houses of Parliament, to challenge extremism.

The group of pupils from Lammas School and Sixth Form created the song with the aim of showing the peaceful side of their faith, while challenging the barbarism of terrorist groups.

Headteacher of Lammas School and Sixth Form, Shona Ramsay, said: "A core responsibility of all teachers is to help students understand their world so that they can be involved in shaping its future and giving students a platform to speak and be listened to is crucial.

"This film demonstrates the power of the words written and spoken by Lammas students as they react to recent terrorist atrocities."

The song is the brain child of 15-year-old Abdalla who decided to write a set of lyrics in response to the Leytonstone tube station stabbing that followed shortly after the large-scale Paris attacks in November 2015.

Abdalla said: "I showed what I had written to my teachers and they encouraged me to work on the writing and record a music video while we were on a trip to Parliament to learn about British values."

Lammas pupils have previously created music videos to tackle issues such as food waste and homophobia through the Spoken Word Educator programme, which places performance poets in schools.

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