Fence, picnic tables to be added at Port Royal school

Port Royal Elementary will soon get a new partial fence around its soccer field and picnic tables in the school garden.

Second-grade teacher John O’Connell secured a $1,000 beautification grant through an education association to spruce up the area, he said.

O’Connell will work with other teachers, students and community members to build the partial wooden rail fence near a drainage ditch at the soccer field. Volunteers will paint the fence blue, one of the school’s colors, and plant trees nearby, O’Connell said.

“Eventually we’ll have a nice shaded area where parents can sit while they watch games,” he said.

Port Royal’s design review board approved the project earlier this week, town planner Linda Bridges said.

O’Connell also plans to use some of the grant to turn the school garden into an outdoor classroom with picnic tables for students, he said.

The projects will likely take 30 to 60 days to complete, O’Connell said.

“Hopefully more people in he community will come out and help us,” he said.

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