By Michael Doran
Launching Place Primary School ended the week with a huge explosion – a colour explosion that is.
In a fundraising effort on 16 November, that has so far netted more than $5000, students, teachers and even a few excited parents took to the oval to be turned into human kaleidoscopes.
The process involved wearing white tee-shirts to run through a sprinkler and then through a series of obstacles at which point the teachers sprayed them with coloured powder.
The final act was for a whole of school gathering to explode with blue powder and literally turn the sky bright blue.
The school is looking to raise $70,000 to enclose the netball court and make it into a multi-sport facility said Parents & Friends Group President, Bianca Amore.
“All our fundraising for the last few years has been going to the project and after today we will have raised around $35,000. We do a lot of other activities, like our Country Fair, but today has been a lot of fun for everyone and a successful fundraiser.”
School Principal Narelle Messerle said that the Parents and Friends Group work alongside the School Council on the fundraising efforts.
“This has been a really happy day and everyone has got into the spirit of things,” she said. “We wanted to raise a substantial amount on our own before we asked for external help to show how committed we are to the project.”
“It is a really important project for the school and we will keep going until we get the $70,000 we need for the work.”
School records show that it began around 1884 as Registered School 2599 and Ms. Messerle said that it moved to its current site in the early 80s.
