The Turner Valley school students are taking it into there own hands to make the future at the school better for the next generation of students. Grades five and six students at the school are currently fundraising for the Legacy Park Project. The project is to build a 1600 square foot wheel chair access park on the school grounds called Legacy Park. The park would include ramps to access the equipment, a net climber, a sand box and castle structure along with swings. There will be a concrete boulevard with trees and picnic tables, and at the entrance of the the park will be four panels containing the history of the region, province and country over the past 100 years. The park will cost $800 000. The students are currently crowd funding by staying in at lunch and writing letters to local businesses asking for their support. Raya, Ciara, Allison and Joy are four grade five students that are currently taking part in this project. According to Raya they have connected the Legacy Park Project to their school work.

"We relate it in math by figuring out how much money it will take to get the playground, and phase one and phase two of the playground." Raya says.

The students realized that too get to their $800 000 mark for the play ground that would mean 80 000 people would have to donate $10 to the campaign.

How ever the park is not just all math and school, this is a dream that was created by students. Ciara hopes that the younger kids will look up to the older kids and that this will make it so that they can all play on the park together.

"I would like the younger kids to look up to the older kids and be like wow they did this for us and took is to the next level." Ciara says.

The play ground will give the older and younger students a chance to play on the play ground at lunch and have fun. Joy says that it is a way that everyone can go outside for recess and not want to stay inside.

"Because it means that everyone will be outside and having fun and not wandering around." Joy says.

These students and the others who partake in the campaign don't look at the park as being their legacy to the school. They look at it as being a park that everyone can go on and spend time on. Allison sees it exactly that way and if someone was to ask her about the park she would tell them about the park itself.

"I would say that legacy park is a big accessible play ground for all ages." Allison says.

The goal is to start the first phase of the park this upcoming summer so that it will be ready for school next year.

Fundraiser site here.

Facebook page here.