Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Margot Robbie star in elite private school's end-of-year video wishing Year 12 girls good luck on their exams

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Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Margot Robbie have wished Year 12 students at an elite private school good luck on their end-of-year exams. 

Two students from Ravenswood School for Girls, on Sydney's North Shore, compiled the surprise video for their fellow classmates.

The video also features radio stars Hamish and Andy, and Simon Cowell as part of the school tradition.  

Each year the girls venture out and ask well-known people in the community to wish them luck, and while they're usually successful in bagging local names in Australia, the project has never amassed to what it has this year.

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Ravenswood School for Girls has been wished good luck by Matt Damon (left) and actress Margot Robbie (right) as part of a school tradition

Year 12 student Lucy Boyd, 18, told Daily Mail Australia she and her friend Eloise Ottery, 17, spent all year on the project and surprised their year group with the end result ahead of final exams.

'We kept a lot of them a surprise throughout the year then showed Year 11 and Year 12 altogether,' she said.

'One by one everyone was screaming, you couldn't hear anything, it was awesome.'

While the video was simply created to motivate the girls in lead up to their final exams, Lucy claimed it garnered some negative attention after its release. 

Year 12 student Lucy Boyd, 18, (pictured) worked on the project all year and surprised her year group with the end result just before exams 

Lucy Boyd (left) and her friend Eloise Ottery (right) joined forces on the project and said they were surprised how well it came together 

Due to the fact Ravenswood was a private school, she said people assumed the school had paid the celebrities for their appearances.

'Some people are asking, :How much did the school pay?", and just expecting the school did it and paid to do it,' she said.

'But we did it, it's always been a student initiative, done by the students.'

She said the criticism did not stop there.

Radio stars Hamish Blake (left) and Andy Lee (right) also popped up on the video urging the girls to take their education seriously – albeit with their typical humorous twist 

Shawn Mendes (left) and Olly Murs (right) personally wished the year 12 girls luck on their final year-12 exams 

The band Rufus also joined forces to wish the Ravenswood School for Girls luck 

'HSC sucks hard but it's over quickly, then your whole life awaits you and it just gets better and better and better,' Zoe Foster Blake said 

Lucy said the captioning in the video also caused quite a stir.

Zoe Foster Blake pictured

The girls captioned each celebrity as they appeared on the video, naming them and explaining who they were.

The captions were fairly straight forward until Australian author and entrepreneur Zoe Foster Blake entered.

During her quick appearance, Mrs Foster Blake said 'HSC sucks hard but it's over quickly, then your whole life awaits you and it just gets better and better and better'.

'So focus, you can do this, be positive, work hard, I believe in you, good luck,' she said.

In the video, the girls captioned Mrs Foster Blake as 'Hamish Blake's wife', and received huge backlash online.

'I thought this was great until Zoe Foster Blake was captioned as Hamish Blake's wife,' one woman said.

'Zoe Foster Blake is a very successful author and entrepreneur. I'm disappointed to see her identified as Hamish Blake's wife,' another said. 

Music producer Simon Cowell joined forces with a string of other celebrities to wish the girls luck on their HSC exams 

Youtube personalities Caspar Lee and Joe Sugg wished the girls luck all the way from the UK 

'It's a big time of year but don't worry if you fail your HSC, things are still ok. I failed high school and I did alright. Have a good time,' said The Bachelor host Osher Gunsberg 

Another woman simply said: 'Zoe Foster Blake you girls, no further introduction required.'

While unfortunate, Lucy said the captioning never intended to insult Mrs Foster Blake's work.

'The majority (of students) were unaware of who she is, we decided to include the disclaimer. It was not intended to lessen the importance of her character whatsoever,' she said.

And the school was also quick to defend its students.

'Zoe Blake's books and articles are awesome. She's well and truly a success in her own right,' it said.

Regardless of the unsolicited comments, Lucy said she was proud of the video.

'We were just so proud and so happy how it worked out, we just wanted to make the year group happy,' she said.

And with well wishes from huge name Hollywood actors, Lucy also said she was shocked it came together so well.

Even Osher Gunsberg made an appearance on the video urging the girls not to worry ahead of their finals.

'It's a big time of year but don't worry if you fail your HSC, things are still ok. I failed high school and I did alright. Have a good time,' he said. 

Ravenswood School for Girls (pictured) is an elite private school on Sydney's upper north shore

'Lady Eliza here wishing you amazing ladies loads of luck in your HSC. Stay true to who you are beauties because you're going to run the world girls, run the world girls, go ravo,' Bachelor contestant Eliza St John (pictured) said

Radio stars Hamish Blake and Andy Lee also popped up urging the girls to take their education seriously – albeit with their typical humorous twist.

'You've caught us at the library studying for our HSC as year eight students,' Mr Blake said.

'And there's nothing we take as seriously as our education, and you should too,' he said followed by a wink. 

The girls were even wished luck by Eliza St John, a contestant on Australia's most recent season of The Bachelor. 

'Lady Eliza here wishing you amazing ladies loads of luck in your HSC. Stay true to who you are beauties because you're going to run the world girls, run the world girls, go ravo,' she said. 

While Lucy and Eloise were the backbone of the project, Lucy admitted the girls did heavily rely on 'contacts' to pull the famed project together.