Lyndale Primary School’s grade five students have made a music video titled Think About the Rest. Chamaree and Sara (front) hold the finished product in front of fellow students (second row from left) Phillip, Tommy, Megan, Fuarosa, Bahsel, Irfaan, Mohammed, Amani, (third row) Elvir, Julien, Coen, Manan, Daniel, Sahdeep, (back) Joel, Pavani, Nisma and Nancy.
MOVE over Kylie and Robbie – the next hit music video could feature the students from Lyndale Primary School.
Grade five students engineered their own music video for the R U Making a Difference project (RUMAD), run by the Education Foundation in conjunction with the Australian Students’ Short Film Festival to turn students into ‘changemakers’ beyond regular charity work.
Students had to create a music video revolving around the theme of social justice or civic and citizenship issues.
The Lyndale students wrote a song titled Think About the Rest, focusing on ‘communities caring for each other’.
Grade 5T student Irfaan Hussein said the students used computers to engineer the video.
“We used a musical program called Garage Band and we also used a 3D animation video called Kahootz, and we installed it into iMovie moviemaker,” he said.
Fellow student Nisma Illyas said both she and friend Pavani Randeniyage ‘made the music’.
Pavani also wrote a letter to Prime Minister John Howard, urging him to have the Community Housing Federation of Australia build more shelters for poor communities. She sent the letter along with a miniature cardboard house.
“This house represents my interest in constructions of simple, decent homes,” she wrote.
“Please consider this when you are in a position to support affordable housing.”
