School GroundsSchool GroundsAirth Primary SchoolAirth Primary School

All about usAll about us

Members of the School Grounds Members of the School Grounds group work together to make group work together to make decisions to improve our school’s decisions to improve our school’s outdoor area. This year our group outdoor area. This year our group have begun to transform our have begun to transform our playground, making it more fun to playground, making it more fun to play in. play in.

Bottle Top ArtBottle Top Art

The whole school The whole school helped us collect helped us collect bottle tops and bottle tops and create this create this impressive piece of impressive piece of artwork. Thank you artwork. Thank you P6 for putting this P6 for putting this display together.display together.

Making more spaceMaking more space

We decided to We decided to move our scooter move our scooter rail and containers rail and containers to make more to make more space in our space in our playground. playground. Thanks to Mr Thanks to Mr Burgoyne our Burgoyne our containers were containers were moved to the moved to the infant playground.infant playground.

School GardenSchool Garden

The schools The schools grounds group grounds group worked together worked together to plant new to plant new flowers in the flowers in the garden. Our garden. Our playground is now playground is now more colourful.more colourful.

Quiet AreaQuiet Area

At the beginning At the beginning of the year we of the year we decided this area decided this area of the playground of the playground was going to be was going to be our quiet area. our quiet area. There is now a There is now a comfortable place comfortable place to sit in and read.to sit in and read.

Help from the Help from the communitycommunity

Community Community service have been service have been very helpful and very helpful and have built have built different things for different things for our playground. our playground. Here is the Here is the storytelling chair storytelling chair and archway they and archway they have built for us.have built for us.

Den BuildingDen Building

P6 visited Larbert P6 visited Larbert woods and woods and collected lots of collected lots of logs for our logs for our playground. P3 playground. P3 enjoyed using the enjoyed using the logs to make this logs to make this den at lunchtime.den at lunchtime.

Parent InvolvementParent Involvement

This year Mrs Nash has been a part This year Mrs Nash has been a part of our group. Mrs Nash has helped of our group. Mrs Nash has helped us make important decisions and us make important decisions and helped us contact outside agencies helped us contact outside agencies in the community. We have in the community. We have enjoyed having Mrs Nash in our enjoyed having Mrs Nash in our group and want to thank her for all group and want to thank her for all of her hard work.of her hard work.

Next steps for our group…Next steps for our group…

In the upcoming months we are going to be In the upcoming months we are going to be working with the ‘Grounds for Learning’ team to working with the ‘Grounds for Learning’ team to further develop our outside area. further develop our outside area.

We plan to have a sandpit and decking built in We plan to have a sandpit and decking built in the playground. Mr Flynn has kindly offered to the playground. Mr Flynn has kindly offered to build the decking and a hut for our playground.build the decking and a hut for our playground.

The school’s PTA has bought us a sound system The school’s PTA has bought us a sound system for our playground. We look forward to having for our playground. We look forward to having this up and running.this up and running.

We plan to work with the Rights Respecting We plan to work with the Rights Respecting Schools group, where together we will focus on Schools group, where together we will focus on the ‘right to play’.the ‘right to play’.

Why join the schools ground Why join the schools ground group?group? If you are interested in developing If you are interested in developing

and changing the grounds you play and changing the grounds you play and learn in then this is the group and learn in then this is the group for you. We are looking for children for you. We are looking for children who have great ideas to help who have great ideas to help transform our outdoor area.transform our outdoor area.