November 4, 2018
Students from six local State schools assembled on the steps of the Kingaroy Town Hall on Saturday morning to celebrate the joy of music.
The Prep to Year 6 students, from Taabinga, Kingaroy, Coolabunia, Proston, Kumbia and Crawford schools, were taking part in the annual “Music: Count Us In” nationwide music project.
“Music: Count Us In” is organised by Music Australia and last year 600,000 students from more than 3000 schools across the country took part.
This is the fourth year South Burnett schools have joined in.
The students, led by music teachers Ginny Salmon and Jill Cartmill, were watched by a crowd of proud family members and friends who gathered in the forecourt for the performance.
There was a festive atmosphere with the Kingaroy Lions Club doing a sausage sizzle and a coffee van also present.
Coolabunia State School principal Murray Johnston praised the students and their parents for coming along – especially the Proston family who travelled 90 minutes for a five-minute performance!
He said it was the largest group of South Burnett students to have taken part in “Count Us In” so far.
The students have been practising for weeks for the performance.
Mr Johnston thanked Mrs Salmon and Mrs Cartmill for inspiring the young singers.
The song the students performed as “Keep On”, a hit from a previous “Count Us In”.
And they did it so well, they were invited back for an encore!
Their only reward at the end of it all? Freddo frogs, ice blocks and lots of applause.
