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Wortley school takes part in world's biggest singalong
Little 'angels' from Five Lanes Primary School in Wortley sang their hearts out as part of the world's biggest singalong.
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The primary was among 25 schools in Leeds hitting the high notes as the world record for the most people singing the same song simultaneously was smashed.
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The happy harmonising in Leeds was all part of the Big Sing event, in which an estimated 500,000 children across the UK joined soul star Des'ree in belting out her uplifting hit, You Gotta Be, with the singer leading the world's biggest choir from the O2 arena stage in London.
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The previous world record was 290,000 people singing together, set in 2005.
Five Lanes Primary headteacher, Jo Fiddes, said: "They were just brilliant and they sang like angels. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
"There's nothing like children singing and when they are singing a song that's got such a great message it's even better."
The total raised from this year's event is still being totted up.
Proceeds will go the CLIC Sargent and Marie Curie cancer charities as well as Youth Music, which supports music-making activities for some of the UK's most disadvantaged young people.
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