Royal fans greet the King and Queen at Oprea House

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Around 100 NSW arts students have surprised the royals with a "flash mob" at the Sydney Opera House. They sung and danced to a song called follow your dreams which was written by one of them.

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00:00Over 100 students involved and they're representative of the School Spectacular, which is the flagship

00:06performing arts event for the department and it occurs in November every year and it's

00:11just an exhilarating time for them to be a part of something so special.

00:15Ocean wrote the song Follow Your Dreams for last year's School Spectacular, the theme

00:19for which was fabulous because of course we were 40.

00:22So he actually created that song as a way to say follow your dreams, you know, pursue

00:27your hopes and work hard and you can achieve it and the students took it on as a bit of

00:30an anthem.

00:31So it's since gained incredible success and we're delighted that we get to use it for

00:35this year's flash mob.

00:37So there is actually a spectacular festival that goes along with the School Spectacular

00:41so it's bigger than Ben Hur but as part of the festival we actually have a spontaneous

00:45flash mob that pops up and performs and that's a sample of that today and Ocean's song is

00:51being used for that purpose as well.

00:52So very, very thrilling for him, he can't believe it.

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