Dolly’s Dream was established to honour the life of Dolly, a young girl whose life was tragically cut short due to bullying. Dolly’s Dream aims to create positive change by promoting kindness, respect, and inclusion. It is a reminder that our actions can have a significant impact on the lives of others.
We started off the day with a student led assembly where Student Voice class reps and members reflected on bullying and how much it can impact someone’s life and spoke about the importance of kindness. It was fantastic to see students taking on the challenge of public speaking, and sharing messages from the heart. We loved seeing the primaries up on stage singing the Dolly Day song ‘Speak up’ by Tom Curtain which encourages everyone to “Speak up even if your voice shakes!”
A big thanks to P&F for organising another successful Easter raffle raising over $1000 towards new playground equipment! There was much excitement over picking out the winning tickets and the Easter Bunny made an appearance too.
At recess, students were treated to blue heaven milkshakes and adults enjoyed some blue coffees care of the wonderful Hawkesdale alumni, Monty, from Coffee with the Girls. Meanwhile, Student Voice reps were busy doing interviews with the Hamilton Spectator and FitzMedia, with our very own Trav behind the camera.
After recess, it was time for the main event of the day!! The colour run!! Students completed lots of fun obstacles like climbing over hay bales, the slip and slide, hurdles and more, all while being doused from head to toe in a different coloured powders by staff and parent helpers!! We started in crisp white T-shirts at the starting line and finished the race plastered in colour!
It’s been a few years since we hosted a colour run at school, so it was great to see this fabulous event back for 2025. There were lots of happy kids with some completing the course 5, 6, 7 even 8 times!!
A big thank you to our supporters! Lucas Brothers in Warrnambool donated a whopping 300 sausages, Cobbs Bakery in Port Fairy donated 22 loaves of bread, Coles Hamilton donated a $50 voucher which we used to purchase BBQ supplies and Woolworths Dennington donated sauce.
Huge thanks to Luke Lane from Koroit who loaned the hay bales and the Dell family for loaning tractor and setting up the hay for the Colour Run. Also to Caroline McRae and the P&F volunteers for running the BBQ raising funds for Dolly’s dream.
A big thanks to Mr Gordon and all of the SV team, Vocational Students and others for working together to make this mammoth event possible from sourcing obstacles, to set up and more!!
