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Penny Bennett during the colour run.

Photos: Zoe Askew Tom Hunter showing all the colours of the run.

Year 3 and 4 students from Sale Primary School run head first into cold spraying water. Will Sheilds is doused as he exits the tunnel. Colour fun run

Zoe Askew

A KALEIDOSCOPE of coloured dust formed a rainbow haze across Sale Primary School oval on Wednesday, (December 14), as Grade 3 and 4 students raced around the oval, teachers, parents and older student helpers dousing the giggling gaggle in water and vibrant powdered paint. Sun shone through parted clouds, warming youthful faces, and despite the frequent chilly breeze ripping across the green grassed oval, students made no hesitations, sprinting head first into fresh spraying waters. Laughter and joyful squeals oscillated between Sale Primary’s red-bricked buildings. Tounges poked out as young feet balanced on beams, and hands covered faces as pink and purple and yellow and blue paint squirted from all directions. Students beamed cheesy, genuine smiles as each partook in Sale Primary School’s middle school colour run, racing through squirting waters and overcoming various obstacles. As their youthful legs carried them around the course, it was almost as if each student followed a choreographed routine as they clumsily danced through waves of powdered colour. At the finish line, colourful drops, a swirling mixture of water and paint, plummeted to the ground below, creating an abstract work of art at pairs of little feet. Sale Primary School’s middle school colour run was an end-of-school-year event these Year 3 and 4 students will certainly remember.

Santa stops by Seaspray as Christmas Day creeps closer

IT doesn’t get much more Aussie than Santa on the beach. The man himself made a quick stopover in Seaspray on Sunday morning, paying a special visit to Seaspray Nippers, before making the journey back to the North Pole to get ready for the big day. Santa made quite the entrance, appearing on the back of a beach buggy, waving merrily as he made his way from the foreshore. Kids at Seaspray Nippers were clearly on the nice list, and Santa handed out treats to those in attendance - talk about an early Christmas present. With just five days to go until Christmas, perhaps even those of an older generation asked Santa for something they really wanted for Christmas. Surely a few national surf life saving titles for Seaspray Surf Life Saving Club would make the best Christmas present.

Santa arrives in style. Santa in Seaspray on Sunday. Photos: Contributed