Willowmavin Primary School hosted its colour run fundraiser last month, raising money to improve students’ experience at the school.
The idea for the colour run started out of a wellbeing day that the school hosted earlier in the year, in which students had the opportunity to take part in gardening, painting, cooking and the School Sports Victoria Diversity Dash, all while promoting diversity and inclusion with no fundraising allowed.
Willowmavin wellbeing leader and colour run organiser Peta Smith, who has been working to improve and implement wellbeing approaches across the school year, said the most recent event was created from the success of the earlier Diversity Dash.
“It made me think ‘let’s have the colour run at the end of the year as well and actually use that to raise money’,” she said.
“We set up an obstacle course with some balance beams and hurdles, balloons for them to run through, and just lots of colour too.”
The school’s 46 students raised about $4000 in the lead up to the event, which will be put towards decodable readers to help improve learning outcomes for students.
The day of the colour run was also complemented by a slime activity, which gave students the opportunity to pour slime on any teacher they wanted.
“It was a very exciting day, we had targets to be reached for the fundraising and if we made it to $3000, we’d be able to slime the teachers,” Ms Smith said.
“[The students] made that and a little bit more, so all the teachers that were present on the day put themselves forward.
“It was something that the students really enjoyed along with involving themselves in the colour run.”
Ms Smith said the school was now looking towards future colour runs depending on input from the Willowmavin community.
