Fraser Park students leap and learn
Here’s why a bunch of colourful patterns have showed up on a footpath outside a Murray Bridge primary school.
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How do you make walking fun?
By using a whole lot of colour to transform a footpath into a play space.
That’s the answer the students at Fraser Park Primary School have come up with, anyway, after a tag-team with the Murray Bridge Wellbeing Hub.
Former wellbeing hub project officer Bridgette Syrus visited the school a few months ago to ask its kids about the best ways to have fun while getting active.
What about balancing, jumping, zig-zagging or playing hopscotch?
They drew a few designs on the bitumen and tested them out.
Then the Murray Bridge council’s hard-working graffiti removal team pressure-washed about 150 metres of footpath along Whitehead Avenue over the school holidays, and some painters came and put playful patterns on the pavement.
The result?
A fun, colourful invitation to get your body moving every time you walk up to the school gate.
We’re told that even grown-ups are allowed to try it.
New wellbeing hub officer Shelley Rose the project was about encouraging kids to discover what their bodies could do outside the classroom.
“It’s thinking about learning as you’re going along – leaping and learning,” she said.
“It was funded by Preventative Health SA, for improving kids’ wellbeing and being active.”
The students gave the path a try at an official opening last Monday, after eating a rainbow of fruit and some popcorn.
Ultimately, they were way too busy playing on it to provide any quotes for this story.
That makes the project a success, right?
