Five groups of Queenswood music students have made it to the Top 10 of the Amnesty UK Youth Awards 2016 for the third year in succession – a huge honour!

We hope that this year’s shortlisted pupils will make it all the way to the final and win the coveted prize, following in the footsteps of Ely Burrows, Annabel Brin and Leah Grant who won the competition outright two years ago.

This year, 17 girls from Years 9 and 10 were selected by the Amnesty UK Youth Awards judging panel for the semi-finals of this inspiring competition that is run annually to raise awareness of the Human Rights violations that occur around the world every day.

The details of the shortlisted songs and pupils are as follows:

In the Upper Primary/Lower Secondary, Performing Category:

• Ordinary People
  Written and performed by Katherine Awoleye, Amaka Onyeagwara, Olamini Adeshina, Jasmine Preko, Olivia Partridge
• The Innocent
  Written and performed by Grace Cruttenden, Lucy Shaw, Lily Lazarus
• Own Voice
  Written and performed  by Lucy Shaw
• Free World
  Written and performed  by Lynelle Kisuule, Merechi Egbo, Tabitha Kenton, Grace Cruttenden

In the Upper Primary/Lower Secondary, Performing Category:

• Don’t Mind The Colours
  Written and performed  by Anna Huo, Suzie Li, Ruth Lancaster, Colette Bacon, Annabel Richardson, Anna Rayson 

Listen to all songs composed for the competition by Queenswood students, including the five shortlisted entries: