Remodeling the playground has been a goal for several years. The original playground was not large enough for our increased enrollment.
Equipment needed updating to meet current standards. It was a project that took several years due to the great expense.
Recycled Playground

The Greenleaf Site Council made the playground a major focus for fund raising for about three years. During spring 1995 a few parents and staff applied for a grant from the State of Minnesota's Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA). The OEA was particularly interested in our project because the equipment purchased is made almost entirely of recycled materials.

Greenleaf was granted $15,000 toward a new playground. The playground equipment used 21,500 plastic containers, 30,800 aluminum cans and 11,700 soup cans.
As part of our receipt of this grant, Greenleaf Site Council and staff agreed to educate our students and community members about the advantages of buying recycled products.

The general public is well aware of the need to recycle and now the OEA would like to make consumers more aware of choosing recycled items at the store.

Teachers were asked to create educational materials to use in the classrooms about this phase of recycling.

Recycling has become a Greenleaf School Focus.