We’re doing this to support the Wooden Spoon charity and the New Zealand charity helping with the recent earthquake. It was huge fun. There were ten of us involved, and we were lucky enough to work with rugby player Joe Worsley, who joined in with assembly and was really good at guitar and piano!

To write the song we had help from Marcel Pusey, a songwriter. We even created our own haka! After a couple of weeks of hard work, we ended up with some inspiration.

This included recording our song at The Sanctuary Studio. We also recorded with professional singer Katy Seath.

It was an amazing experience to record at a professional studio and, hopefully, we will be able to do it again.

Although it was fun, we had to work very hard because we had to keep repeating each line until it was perfect. Luckily we knew the song off by heart, otherwise it would have been extremely difficult. It was fun because we had to wear special headphones and got to hear ourselves singing – just like real pop stars!

We thank all the people who helped us to create our song. Hopefully all of you will download our song Rise!

You can also see the song on YouTube!