A bigger happy and healthy place: expanding the playground

We’ve some great news about expanding our outdoor play space…

Our local councillors – Councillor Hamilton, Councillor Shahzad and Councillor Charlwood – have offered to support the development of more space at Moortown Primary to make our school an even happier and healthier place to be. The councillors are part of the Inner North East Community Committee which has recently agreed to donate £10,000 to school in order to develop the play space.

The extra land was part of the old Yorkshire Bank playing field. Some of the land was used for new housing, some for Moortown Park, and some was donated to school. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to sort out various aspects of the development – it’s more complicated than you might think! However, with this donation, we’re now very close to starting the first stage of the development of the land: extending of the playground at the back of the school. We’re aiming for this to be tarmac so that our children have more year-round space to play on at breaks and lunchtimes. Later on, we’ll develop other areas of the land with grass and other planting.

Also good news is that we’re hoping to get the work done at cost price from Colas Ltd as part of their community pay back scheme. Thanks to Cllr Shahzad for helping to arrange this.

We’re grateful to Councillor Hamilton and Councillor Shahzad for visiting our school just before the summer holiday, and we look forward to welcoming our local councillors back again so they can see the benefits of the funding. Thanks again to all three councillors for their support.