East Adelaide School

🌈 WOW, EAST ADELAIDE SCHOOL! 🌈

What an incredible day.

As the colour settles and we finish unpacking the final tubs, we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who helped make our Colour Run such a success.

To Lisa – thank you for the energy, excitement, organisation and relentless hype that built momentum right across our community. Your enthusiasm was contagious and helped create something truly special.

To Michael – thank you for embracing the adventure and helping create the obstacle experiences that had students climbing, crawling, running and laughing their way around the course all day.

To our amazing setup and pack-up crews – thank you for the early starts, heavy lifting, endless carrying, problem-solving and behind-the-scenes work that most people never see. Events like this simply don’t happen without you.

To our teachers and staff – thank you for your encouragement, flexibility, supervision and willingness to finish the day looking like walking rainbows. The joy on students’ faces was a direct reflection of the energy you brought.

To our families and wider community – thank you for supporting our students, volunteering your time and helping create such a positive atmosphere throughout the event.

And finally, thank you for your extraordinary generosity.

Together, our community has raised almost $15,000 for East Adelaide School. That is an incredible achievement and a reflection of what can happen when a community comes together behind a shared goal.

The Colour Run may be over, but the fundraising isn’t quite finished yet! Donations will remain open until next Friday, so if you’ve been meaning to contribute, there is still time to help us push our total even higher.

Most importantly, thank you for helping create a day filled with laughter, colour, connection and memories that our students will be talking about for a long time to come.

What a community. What a Crew. 💙🌈

🌈 We are absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the incredible support for our East Adelaide School Colour Run!

Our fundraising total is racing higher and the excitement around school is impossible to miss. From donations to white shirts, goggles, colourful countdowns and very enthusiastic students… this event is shaping up to be one giant explosion of fun. 💥

The leadership team is officially ready for the chaos, colour clouds and community spirit — and judging by these smiles, we may already be taking the “colour” part a little too seriously. 😎

Thank you to every family, friend and supporter who has helped make this event such a success already. We cannot WAIT to see Barry Messner Park transformed into a rainbow tomorrow!

Keep those donations coming and don’t forget:
👕 White shirt
🥽 Goggles or glasses
🌈 Maximum enthusiasm

Let’s make this the brightest event East Adelaide School has ever seen!

🌈 EAST ADELAIDE SCHOOL COLOUR RUN IS ALMOST HERE! 🌈

Our fundraising total is closing in on an incredible $10,000 🤯 Thank you to our amazing students, families and community for getting behind this event and helping us raise money for new drinking fountains and bottle refill stations across the school!

If you have not set up an individual fundraising page, you can still contribute to our worthy cause.

https://eastadelaidecolourrun.goraiseit.com.au/donate

📅 Friday 29th May
⏰ 1:00pm – 3:00pm
👨‍👩‍👧 Parents and families are welcome to come along and watch the fun!

A quick reminder for all students:
⚪ White t-shirt required
🕶️ Goggles or glasses required for eye protection

🚫 No eye protection = no colour fun.

There’s still time to boost those sponsorships and help us hit (or even beat!) the $10K mark. Every donation makes a difference! 🎉

Today marks the start of National Reconciliation Week. 🖤💛❤️

A time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. For the work of past generations and the benefit of future generations.

This year’s National Reconciliation Week theme, All In, encourages all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day. Reconciliation will not happen by itself, and it will not happen without all of us.

https://eastadelaidecolourrun.goraiseit.com.au/

🌈 EAST ADELAIDE SCHOOL COLOUR RUN IS ALMOST HERE! 🌈

The countdown is on! Our Colour Run is happening this Friday 29th May from 1:00pm–3:00pm and we can’t wait to see our school community come together for an afternoon of colour, fun, fitness and Crew spirit!

💧 Every dollar raised is going towards new drinking fountains and bottle refill stations for our students.

We’re currently sitting at an amazing fundraising total — but we’d love one final push this week! If every family shared their fundraising page or collected just a few extra donations, we could make a huge difference for our school.

🎉 Parents and families are warmly welcome to come along and watch!

🕐 CLASS RUN SCHEDULE (approximate!)
1:00 pm — Room 20 (Year 5/6)
1:06 pm — Room 21 (Year 5/6)
1:12 pm — Room 17 (Year 5/6)
1:18 pm — Room 18 (Year 5/6)
1:24 pm — Room 22 (Year 4/5)
1:30 pm — Room 1 (Year 3/4)
1:36 pm — Room 2 (Year 3/4)
1:42 pm — Room 3 (Year 3/4)
1:48 pm — Room 4 (Year 3/4)
1:54 pm — Room 13 (Year 2)
2:00 pm — Room 12 (Year 2)
2:06 pm — Room 11 (Year 1/2)
2:12 pm — Room 16 (Year 1)
2:18 pm — Room 15 (Year 1)
2:24 pm — Room 9 (Reception)
2:30 pm — Room 7 (Reception)
2:36 pm — Room 5 (Reception)

Let’s colour our school together! 💙

🚶‍♀️👟 WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY 👟🚶‍♂️

This Friday 22 May, East Adelaide School is encouraging all families to join in Walk Safely to School Day!

If you’re unable to walk the whole way, why not park a little further away than usual and enjoy part of the journey on foot? Every step helps build healthy habits, road safety awareness and active lifestyles for our students.

We can’t wait to see our students arriving with their walking shoes on and big smiles ready for the day ahead!

📅 Friday 22 May 2026
📍 East Adelaide School

Let’s make it a fun, active and safe start to the school day! 💙

🌈 EAST ADELAIDE COLOUR RUN IS COMING! 🌈

https://eastadelaidecolourrun.goraiseit.com.au

The countdown is on and our school community has already raised an incredible $2,585 towards new drinking fountains and bottle refill stations! 💙👏

Now let’s see how far we can take it! Every donation — big or small — helps us create better spaces for our students, and the competition for class and individual prizes is heating up fast 🔥🏆

Parents, friends, grandparents, neighbours… now is the perfect time to share your child’s fundraising page and help boost those totals before the big day!

🎉 Friday 29 May
⏰ 1:00pm – 3:00pm
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents welcome to watch!

PLUS — every student gets an ice block on the day 🍦

📣 Keep an eye out — the official Colour Run timetable will be released later this week!

Let’s make this the brightest, messiest and most successful Colour Run yet 🌈💨

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS)

Wednesday 27 May at 11.30am (ACST)

East Adelaide School will be coming together to participate in reading this year’s story ‘Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller’ by Adam Jackson and Adrian Lloyd.

National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual reading event bringing together children, schools, families and libraries to share the same story, at the same time, across Australia.

National Reconciliation Week 2026 will be recognised at our school from 27 May to 3 June 2026. This year’s theme, “All In”, encourages all Australians to work together towards a more united and respectful future. Throughout the week, students will take part in storytelling and cultural learning experiences that honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures and histories. As a school community, we remain committed to listening, learning and walking together in the spirit of reconciliation.

What a wonderful morning at our Mother’s Day and Special Carer’s Breakfast! 💙

After not holding a big Mother’s Day event for a number of years, it was so special to see our community come together again to celebrate the incredible mums, grandmothers, carers, and special people in our students’ lives.

A huge thank you to the amazing group of volunteers who arrived early to set up, cook, serve, and pack down. Your effort and generosity made the morning possible and created such a warm and welcoming atmosphere for our community. We couldn’t have done it without the support of Ashton Valley Juicery or our Governing Council!

Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the event such a success. It will definitely be a regular fixture on our calendar 🌷