03 Jul 2014
STUDENTS RECORDED FOR "SOUNDSCAPE" AT ABC STUDIOS
A draw from the hat literally saw ten lucky student from Mrs Morley's 5/6M travel to the ABC Studios in Dubbo last Wednesday to record the names of soldiers who had fought and died serving their country in World War 1.
The exercise was the initiative of the Australian War Museum in Canberra. They encouraged schools from all over Australia to have 11 and 12 year old students record the names of the fallen soldiers. Each student had to record 5 names and ages.
At the ABC in Dubbo our students met Andrew Dunkley , the Manager of ABC Western Plains who gathered the Wellington Primary School team in the main studio to record the names. Andrew was impressed with the reading and there were very few "fluffs". Cleverly, Wellington had rehearsed the names beforehand!
When the recording session had finished a former Wellington Primary student , Alison Plasto who is the presenter for ABC OPEN, came in and took photos. She then broke into song, singing what she thought was still the school song. Alison was swiftly corrected, and told that the school had a "new" song which the team then spontaneously started to sing. The result of all this singing was the school song was recorded in full and played on the ABC breakfast program the next morning. For those who didn't hear it, the song sounded fantastic .
Also, the Wellington team watched an interview being recorded with the astronomer, Professor Fred Watson from the news booth. Finally, there was a demonstration of what all the buttons do in a radio studio and then off to Maccas for a well earned late lunch.
The recorded names will be played at the War Memorial starting in November and they will be played until November 2018. The 100 schools who took part in this event will be recognised as well.
The 10 readers were, William Eather, James Hynch, Craig Wheatley, Taleah Stanley, Kiara Sullivan, Tom Kiss, Bethany Bell, Kyla Tasker, Bryn Thomas and Hannah Petrovic