Watch: Olly Murs and students tackle diversity through rap battle

In the name of a national poetry competition, one school receives a helping hand from an unlikely source...
12th November 2018, 5:34pm

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Watch: Olly Murs and students tackle diversity through rap battle

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It’s Monday morning and who should walk through the school gates? Well, for one school in Salford, it was none other than X Factor alumnus, Olly Murs. 

With Murs’ latest song, Moves, as the backing track, the children at St Luke’s RC Primary School flexed their creative muscles and wrote their own freestyle rap. The rap is an entry for the Premier League’s poetry competition, of which, Murs will be one of four judges. 

The competition encourages primary children aged 5-11 to pen their own poem with the theme of diversity in mind. 

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