Community efforts net new school playground

After years of fundraising activities, working bees and community support, Tapora School finally has a brand new playground for its students.

The official opening took place just before the school’s annual disco last month, when pupils were let loose on the complex network of climbing frames, ropes, tunnels, nets, slides and swings.

The new play area replaces an old stockade, slide and swings that were beyond repair, and the children were surveyed on what they wanted from the new set-up before it was commissioned.

Principal Keryl Lee said it was exciting to see everyone’s efforts come to fruition after years of fundraising and saving by school board members and families, as well as the Friends of Tapora School, who raised nearly $10,000 over four years for shade sails that will be installed by next summer.

She also thanked community, board and staff members for supplying woodchips and transport, and for laying the woodchips and weed matting.

“Without the generosity of the community, these things would be very difficult to achieve.”