Clean-Up

I wanted to update everyone on how the cleanup went over the past two days before many of the students travel for the holidays and the month wraps up. When April wraps up we are hoping to wrap up some of the fund-raising as well (but this will continue for a soccer field we hope) so that we can get orders placed for our playground equipment!! We now have a blank canvas to work with thanks to the help of LSCE students and students of Lynedoch Primary!
Yesterday, we began by moving shrubs and branches that the Sustainability Institute had placed where we wanted our structures to go. We had to move a lot of stuff back but it got done pretty quickly. Today when we were at Lynedoch almost all of the children had a part in the cleaning up and the area looks great. We were able to tape off the area we want the structures to go into.

After this initial clean up we were able to meet with a woman from the Sustainability Institute to tell her about our plans. The meeting was encouraging and gave the few LSCE students that were able to make it a chance to discuss our ideas with some important role players in the Lynedoch community. Plans were given to her and she is now going to let the community know what we have up our sleeve so that we can all work together to make this playground functional and safe for the children. Below is our ideas in a design. This option is the closest to what we would like to see the entire playground look like in the long run, and the area on the left with the playground structure (has an animal name), the see-saw, and the swings are our goal for the next month!

After the Easter holidays we will talk with the play ground company about structures and continue conversation with the Lynedoch community about our project. We will then begin discussion about which structures we want by giving the community a few different options of what we can do with the money.

As always, we will keep you posted.

Hannah
(Katy is already away on her Easter holiday!)