Students at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School joined in as part of a national sing-a-long on Thursday.
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At 12.30pm, Sophia Duncan led the school through Shine Together, at the same time as half a million other students from across the country as part of the Count Us In celebration.
“I really like this song because it’s about equality for everyone and it brings everyone together,” Sophia said.
VIDEO: Students from St Mary’s Catholic Primary School take part in Count Us In
The song was written by school students in collaboration with program ambassador John Foreman OAM, and program mentor and singer Taylor Henderson as part of a government funded initiative to promote music throughout Australian education.
The school’s music director Fiona Nell said the song is sung at the same time across Australia and at St Mary’s music students also joined in the performance.
“We learn it and we all do our own actions,” Mrs Nell said.
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I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
