School’s colour run was to dye for

If it was colourful chaos you were after, Goldfields Primary School, in Cromwell, was the place to be on Sunday.

The school held their annual colour run over the weekend to raise money for new technology in classrooms.

Principal Anna Harrison said the event went really well.

Children, and some adults, ran through an obstacle course on school grounds, where volunteers were stationed with water and dye on hand.

A Cromwell Volunteer Fire Brigade crew and truck were also there, "providing quite a lot of water", Mrs Harrison said.

"The organisation on the day — that’s taken a team of people ... making sure we’ve got volunteers to be marshalls, making sure Mr Whippy’s here, making sure the coffee cart’s here and the fire brigade."

Goldfield’s pupils had been very excited in the leadup to the run and made the most of it on Sunday, she said.

"They just run till they’re done."

It was the third time the school’s parent-teacher association, Friends of the School, had run the event.

"We thought we were better off actually putting our fundraising effort into a couple of really big events."

Friends of the School chairwoman Natasha Sinclair said the committee had got the organisation of the colour run down to a fine art.

They use a fundraising platform for children to raise money and also had cash sales on the day.

"That opens it up, not only to the families from our school, but also children in the wider Cromwell community to come and get wet and get colourful."