Graffiti vandals in 360-tag rampage at Paralowie R-12 school VANDALS have sprayed 360 graffiti tags throughout the Paralowie R-12 school overnight - and police want the public's help to track them down. The vandals used various colours of paint to spray walls, windows, signs, fences and bins across the Whites Rd campus. Principal Di Garwood said the school community was upset to see the widespread damage this morning. "To think that people take the time to damage and vandalise something that we take great pride in ... it's very upsetting and it's also very costly to have it removed," she said. They (the offenders) really thrive on doing this stuff ... but for us it breaks our hearts when we see the damage. The school has security cameras but Ms Garwood was not yet aware what, if any, vision of the offenders they had captured. "We will be looking into that and we will be working closely with SAPOL so we can get to the bottom of it so that no other school or part of the community has to go through it," she said. We will probably have information during the course of the day from some students or some families who will give us some ideas about who is at large doing this. It's quite possibly a crew who thought they could come in here ... they may have some connections with the school, they may not. To dob in is a great Australian no-no, but I would say if you do have any information and you want to be supportive about this, let someone know and we will be discreet about the way we handle any information. Ms Garwood said she would be in support of the culprits cleaning up graffiti if caught. "In terms of community service, if it wasn't cleaning up here, cleaning up in another venue for something like this, most definitely," she said. School continued as normal this morning while graffiti removalists started work on a clean-up that is expected to take at least all of today. The clean-up bill is expected to be in the thousands of dollars. Sarah Caldwell, a mother of four students at the school and the chair of the school's governing council, said she could hardly believe the sight. "It was total shock horror," she said. They (the kids) love their school, they love coming to school and to have graffiti greet them when they come out to recess is not a nice relaxing environment for them. It's disrupting their school day (and) it's just mindless. It is low, and I wouldn't like to speculate because I don't like to judge people, but this is horrific. They have gone out of their way to do this amount of tagging. What they were thinking is beyond me. Ms Caldwell said the clean-up costs would be better spent on education and that the offenders should have to clean graffiti. "Obviously they are bored, they have nothing to do, so they should spend the time coming and cleaning it up if we can catch who has done it," she said. It just seems so wrong that this kind of thing is happening. The vandals also tagged surfaces outside of the school, including nearby bus stops.