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Speaker 1: Wow, the children chasing a high of twenty two and

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Speaker 1: for the next few days looks to be great conditions

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Speaker 1: for getting out to your local playground. We're celebrating the

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Speaker 1: best all thanks to eat A Networks and as if

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Speaker 1: under wey. Addition to that, we head out to the

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Speaker 1: foothills and say hi to Methin School Principal Soup ferndorfla Hi, Hi, Curta,

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Speaker 1: tell us about the playground at Methon Primary.

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Speaker 2: Wow, we're looking at building some new new equipment in

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Speaker 2: our playground and adding to what we already have, which

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Speaker 2: we do have some great features already. We've got a

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Speaker 2: gagable person and leach playground, and we do have a

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Speaker 2: junior new playground as well. But we're looking for something

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Speaker 2: that's successful for all our children and we're about to

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Speaker 2: plan a new project.

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Speaker 1: So I see that it was given a wee boost

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Speaker 1: from the recent meth and chill feest. What was that

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Speaker 1: about five thousand bucks or something that's cool?

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Speaker 2: Actually, no, nine thousands even better. We were thrilled and

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Speaker 2: we actually approached mountt earlier in the year and asked

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Speaker 2: if we could could partner with them and look at

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Speaker 2: ways we could work together and they came back with

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Speaker 2: offering us to support their chill Fest and we had

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Speaker 2: some wonderful parents who stepped up and some staff members

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Speaker 2: and we provided some support on the night and yeah,

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Speaker 2: and we took the gate sales. So we were really

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Speaker 2: thrilled with the nine thousand. That's a really big starting

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Speaker 2: point to get us, yes, towards we're in Entiertoo.

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Speaker 1: So you're one of many local schools I understand working

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Speaker 1: on projects like this borough in Churchy. You mentioned that

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Speaker 1: that operative term accessible. What does that mean when you're

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Speaker 1: putting together the new things for the playground here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we just want equipment that will work for

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Speaker 2: our children who are least mobile. And one of the

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Speaker 2: things that kuds love to play on is the sort

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Speaker 2: of the climbing style forts, and everything we currently have

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Speaker 2: is not accessible to children her and wheelchairs or who

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Speaker 2: are unable to climb. So we're looking at building a

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Speaker 2: structure that has a ramp style access with really cool

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Speaker 2: things to do once they get up into the sport

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Speaker 2: style structure.

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Speaker 1: Must be rather exciting looking through all of the modern options.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you, Sarah. We've actually also approached manhatt College and

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Speaker 2: we've got some of the DVC students that are helping

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Speaker 2: us design it. Yeah, we've had them over and we've

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Speaker 2: got three girls helping us and they're looking at they've

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Speaker 2: looked at what we think would be great options to

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Speaker 2: put together and they are going to come back to

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Speaker 2: us with a plan and then we're going to go

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Speaker 2: to some local builders and see what we can come

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Speaker 2: up with.

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Speaker 1: Have you been brave enough to ask some of the

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Speaker 1: younger kidlets for some thoughts. I've got a wonderful mosaic

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Speaker 1: from Room three at Hempstead up on my wall at

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Speaker 1: the moment, and there's everything from a climbing wall where

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Speaker 1: you get a piece of candy at the top of it,

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Speaker 1: to a candy theme, to a pony riding ring to

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Speaker 1: underground trampolines.

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Speaker 2: We haven't quite got those features, but they definitely want

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Speaker 2: things like a steering wheel and you know, binoculars and

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Speaker 2: things that they can can look like they're spying on

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Speaker 2: others and playing together here neat.

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Speaker 1: So what's the timeline on that.

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Speaker 2: So we're really just designing at this term, and we'd

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Speaker 2: be looking at tim one building the structure. We've got

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Speaker 2: a scooter pack the kids can scoot around and we

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Speaker 2: just want to incorporate this as part of that, so

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Speaker 2: they're sort of in and amongst that in a safe way.

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Speaker 1: Super quick. It's full circle for yourself. I think I

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Speaker 1: remember reading an article a few years back when you

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Speaker 1: took the job because you're an ex student of me

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Speaker 1: from primary right, that's right, from student to boss. Is

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Speaker 1: there is there anything in the playground because we've been

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Speaker 1: sharing memories of the tractor in the Ashburton Domain playground,

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Speaker 1: which I swear has been there since the dawn of time,

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Speaker 1: alongside the elephant and the horse. Is there anything o

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Speaker 1: g A. The Mef and Brimary playground that you remember

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Speaker 1: having heaven some vun on No.

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Speaker 2: No, no, not apart from probably the big old oak

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Speaker 2: tree that's sitting in the middle of the of the playground.

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Speaker 2: All the playgrounds nuisance then, so not so familiar.

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Speaker 1: Still swinging off the oak tree though wonderful. Look forward

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Speaker 1: to keeping tabs on your exciting projects. Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: fun with us. Principal Sue fund Orfler