Snow forecast for playground opening!

5.16.30pm BST (GMT +0100) Sat 28th Jun 2008

• TV presenters, father and son Peter and Dan Snow, will be the special guests when a local primary school unveils its new playground on Monday, June 16.

The £150,000 scheme, of which £90,000 was raised by the school and the remaining £60,000 paid by Richmond Council, is at Barnes Primary in Cross Street. Dan is a former pupil at the school, and the official opening is at 10.30am on Monday. The design of the playground was a collaboration between the school, Richmond council, and a firm of specialist landscape architects. It features an enclosed raised area directly accessed from the classrooms for the infants, with a small amphitheatre for use as an outside classroom. A sloping path leads to the play area, which has rubber safety surfacing, and a sandpit. At the lower level a grassed mounded area incorporates a log "castle ring" and a weather vane pole.

. . Richmond Council's Cabinet Member for Education and Children's Services, Cllr Malcolm Eady, said: "This is a superb new playground: safe, stimulating and highly creative in design. I am delighted that the Council has played its part in making the project a reality and also applaud the school for its tremendous efforts. Congratulations to everyone involved with this project."