From Gael Cameron:On Saturday morning, 10th April, the weather was glorious and the sun shining as the local children and their parents headed down to the primary school with wheelbarrows, spades and rakes in hand. The jobs for the day were to clear out the storage sheds and take part in some landscaping.
Some of the parent, kids and the primary teacher Miss McLuckie started emptying the sheds of old desks, chairs and toys which were of no use. They carried them to the dump trailer, kindly parked nearby by Davie. Some parents went down to the site of the proposed Playpark where piles of woodchips were left from the clearance of that site last year. They shovelled them into bags until the tractor turned up to collect larger loads and ferry them back to the school. Other parents and some of the children had started to dig out a pathway starting from the newly slabbed area at the school entrance down to the garden area at the back. The aim here was to create a pathway where the children could avoid the mud, thus preventing them from messing up the school carpets or going home at the end of the day with very muddy trousers.
Once the pathway was dug out, the woodchips were barrowed, shovelled and raked into place. A final flutter of grass seed along the paths edge finished the job off nicely. Everyone worked really hard on such a warm day and the end result looked great.
Miss McLuckie was very impressed, and Jon from the parents council extended a big "Thank you" to all those who came out and lent a hand.
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