St Patrick's School Kaiapoi Playground Spruce up!
We are a small group of parents who work together along with the teaching staff and school community to raise funds for St Patrick's and support our school to build positive relations and help make St Patrick's a better place to learn. Our short term goal is to create a safer and beneficial playground environment. Our long term goal is to continue to update and refresh areas around St Patrick's for students to enjoy, including remarking of netball courts, and continuing to be able to support students and teachers, for example financing needed school supplies.The current main playground has bark that is not suitable in a playground. It has turned to dirt under the top layer of bark and is uneven. Our plans are to extend the current main playground and add a jungle gym into this extension. The jungle gym will be around 9.8m long, with the height ranging up to 1.8m, in order for all ages of students to be able to benefit and enjoy the jungle gym. Introducing a jungle gym to St Patrick's will helps students to improve their hand and eye coordination as well as body strengthening. As per regulations the playground has to have loose fill with 30cm depth. The grant will be used to purchase 50 cubic metres of loose fill for the playground to comply with the current regulations and to last longer than the current mulch bark. We also need to repaint some of the existing playground equipment which will make this equipment safer, by not rusting etc, for the students in the years to come
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