We are the School Council from Nether Edge Primary School. We are currently trying to raise money to improve our playground to make us enjoy play times and lunchtimes more.

Currently, we feel our playground is not enjoyable due to a lack of resources we have to play with at lunchtimes. It is basically a large, concrete square. We have a climbing wall, which we love, but it has lost a lot of its grips so we can’t climb up it very well. Lots of us love skipping, but we only have one long skipping rope at the moment.

We find lunchtimes quite boring and repetitive because we just have the same equipment all the time and if it breaks, we can’t afford to replace it. A lot of the things we do have to play with, we own at home and play with them all the time, for example, footballs.

We would love to raise money to buy a trim trail/ adventure trail to put in our playground. This would enable us to have a variety of things to play with to make break times more enjoyable.

We work hard during our lessons and feel that we deserve a break time where we can relax, have fun, feel calm and create long lasting friendships. We believe improvements to our playground will help with this.