Tanya Steele
Healesville Primary School was awash with colour for their annual Colour fun run on Thursday 30 March.
The event raised funds towards the school’s new playground and saw the oval transformed into a colourful obstacle course.
Principal Tracey Robertson-Smith was impressed the students were so enthusiastic as it began raining just as the event started.
“It’s just been the best day given the conditions, I think it’s been amazing and there was no way we were going to cancel it because of the weather,” Ms Robertson said.
The kids charged through a kaleidoscope of rainy chaos which was the brainstorm and group effort from parents and families, who set up the course for the kids.
Ms Robertson-Smith was pleased it went off without a hitch and said it was largely due to help from the school community.
“The parents and community helpers (PATCH) have been wonderful and lots of other parents have helped as well, they’re all just amazing,” she said.
The students put in a lot of effort to fundraise for their school and ended up raising over $15,000 for the event.
The primary school students raced through the obstacle course full of tunnels, sparklers, streamers and objects to climb on, in and through.
Teachers had a wonderful time dousing the kids in every colour of the rainbow, but didn’t escape from return treatment.
Marlene Williams, the grade five/six teacher ended up mostly orange on the day, but made sure that everyone got a little colour on them.
“I think we managed to get every single kid if they looked a bit white and if the parents or teachers looked a bit white, they were targeted and we sorted them out,” Ms Williams said.
Some onlookers wisely kept to elevated ground while the oval surged with activity.
Ms Williams thoroughly enjoyed herself and appreciated how well everyone connected for the event.
“I think it’s such a fun thing to do, it was absolutely fantastic and all the kids were good sports,” she said.
“It was a real community involvement and community is one of our school values, everybody had fun and worked with each other.”
