Fundraiser for new playground equipment at Prince Charles PS

Mar 31, 2016

Members of the parent council at Prince Charles Public School in Verona, along with some of the school’s staff members, organized and hosted a direct sellers/craft show and sale at the school on March 26, which combined forces with vendors at the Frontenac Farmers Easter Market event. Proceeds from the parent council’s fundraiser will go towards purchasing new playground equipment for the school, at a cost of approximately $13,000. The event offered visitors a unique shopping experience, with a number of direct sellers and crafters offering up a wide variety of products. The farmers’ market vendors also donated their table rental fees to the playground fundraiser.

Alison Williams, secretary of the PCPS parent council, helped organize the event. She said, “There has been a great need for this kind of equipment at the school for a number of years now and we, the parent council, have already made a down payment on the equipment, which will be installed at the school sometime in April”. Williams said that while the school currently has playground equipment for kindergarten-aged school children and children in grades six and above, there is a great need for equipment for the intermediate students at the school. '”Currently there is no equipment outside specifically geared for children in grades 2 through 5.”

The new equipment to be purchased will include three large separate structures; two different types of rock climbing walls and a third structure that will have interactive equipment that focuses on developing this age group’s gross motor skills.