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Mangawhai Beach School has decided to forego its annual gala on Labour Weekend this year in favour of a fun run event that will see kids tackle an obstacle course with a water slide and colour run on Tuesday, April 9.
Community sponsors have chipped in to make the course as exciting a challenge as possible, deputy principal and organiser Emma Grieve says.
“It will start with a crossfit-style obstacle course provided by Fit365. Then the kids will hit the hay bales, which they will have to climb,” she says.
“There will be a water station where the fire brigade will spray and soap the kids using a fire engine and a tank provided by Mangawhai water, and finally they will have to run through a stream of coloured powder.”
The aim of the event is to raise $50,000 to equip a community gym, which the school recently took over.
The money will be used for a contemporary dance studio as well as a science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths (STEAM) room.
Emma anticipates the event will be as effective at raising funds as galas from previous years, but will allow organising teachers and students to have a Labour Weekend holiday for the first time in 14 years.
So far, students have raised over $30,000 in pledges via the Everydayhero NZ website.
Alex Inder, 10, has already raised $572 through pledges from family and friends and says he is looking forward to the STEAM room because he wants to learn to pilot drones.
There are also guaranteed prizes for every child who participates in the fundraising, ranging from a yoyo to a hoverboard, depending on how much they raise.
Everyone who enters the fun run also goes into a draw to win travel vouchers.
