Students at Holy Spirit School will finally get the playground of their dreams after two and half years of hard work, after the school was was presented a $101,310 cheque from the Alberta Community Enhancement Program on June 23.

The vision for the playground came from a group of second graders who wrote a letter to their teacher, and parent council two years ago.

Erica Rott who is now in grade four was one of those students, she says the vision for the new playground came from a book.

"Well we had reading groups in grade 2, and we read this book about this girl who came to a school in a wheelchair and she couldn't go on the playground," she explains. "The kids in my group kind of realized, that our school was like that, because if someone in a wheelchair or with disabilities came, they couldn't really play at the park."

Fourth grade classmate Avery Clark adds the playground also had a few safety issues.

"Some people who played on the park would get slivers, or their foot caught in something. If people came with disabilities, like in wheelchairs, they couldn't really move around they would just have to watch all the fun."

The letter prompted Parent Council to start a Playground Committee, and bake sales, bottle drives and applying for grants began.

The Committee applied three times for a the CFEP Grant, and the third time was a charm, the group also received a grant for a rubberized wheelchair accessible surface.

610,000 plus recycled milk jugs will be used to build the playground, by a company named Green Roots in partnership with local contractors.

The school hopes to have it built by the new school year.