EVA Laing desperately wants to be school captain, and she's pitched herself as the school's next leader in the best way she knew how - through rap.

The 10-year-old Brightwater State School presented her case to assembled students, making the most of her well-honed performance skills to 'work the crowd'.

Her dad, Paul Laing, videoed Eva's rap to share with family in the United Kingdom, never expecting it to go viral. It's been viewed nearly 6000 times since Paul posted it to Facebook on Wednesday night.

Speaking to the Daily on Thursday - the day after her performance and the day before the results of the school captain election were due to come in - Eva felt like the risk she took had paid off.

"I thought I kind of wanted to do something a bit unique," she said.

With years of ballet and hip hop dancing behind her and a love for "playing around with words and writing poetry" Eva set herself the challenge of creating a speech like no other.

She spent four hours finding the right rhymes, then rehearsed every day this week to get it just right.

"I was a bit worried about the audience participation; I kind of took a risk," she said.

That risk paid off.

Eva's mum, Joanna Laing, said her daughter had been dancing with House of Sole in Nambour for the past four years, and she thought that was where Eva got her confidence to perform the way she did.

"She absolutely loves school. She's desperate, absolutely desperate to be captain," she said.

Eva is up against two of her best friends for the captaincy, but even if she doesn't come out on top, Joanna said Eva had plenty to be proud of.

"There's so many nice comments on there (the video on Facebook) that we've just said to her even if you don't get it (the captaincy) you've just got to take that away and know that you've done everything you could do," Joanna said.

Whichever way it goes on Friday, Eva is wishing her fellow candidates well.

"Id like to wish all the other candidates good luck and I know they'll do amazing because they're so talented and amazing and kind," she said.