The school relocated from its Sydney Rd campus more than two years ago, and it has been expanding facilities ever since.
Principal Sam Woods said it was a welcome addition.
“The kids have been here for seven terms without a playground, and it’s very exciting for our school community,” he said.
“We did some consultancy with the students. We asked them what kinds of things they wanted for their playground.
“The overwhelming feedback was that they wanted things to climb on.
“So the company we ended up going with designed it around those elements.
“There are monkey bars, and swinging poles, as well as other things to climb on.
“And it’s a very spacious playground, which allows us to have lots of kids play on it at a time.”
Mr Woods said the size of the playground was important, with the school still growing, and that having it in place would help students achieve their best in the classroom.
“Learning and sitting in a classroom and practising literacy and our numeracy can be really taxing on the kids,” he said.
“It can be really fatiguing and the way that they are re-energised to be back in the classroom is by letting out the energy, the physical energy that they have stored up.
“So it’s really important, especially for the primary school.”
Mr Woods said the feedback from students had been overwhelmingly positive.
“They’re loving it,” he said.
“They’re so stoked, and it’s really lovely for me to watch because they’ve been so creative the last seven terms, making up games and things to do as they didn’t have a playground.“
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