Guernsey Press

Children give Saumarez Park’s new playground the thumbs up

A NEW playground at Saumarez Park has been lauded as a ‘real success’ and ‘the best in Guernsey’ by parents and their children.

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Children enjoying the rope swing at Saumarez Park’s new playground on Saturday. Left to right, Ella Tersigni 11, Amy Tersigni, 7, Serena Reddy, 5, and Elissa Reddy, 3. Right, fun on the ‘twirly- whirly’. (Picture by Adrian Miller 19823561/6)

The third phase of the children’s playground at the park Saumarez Park opened to the public at the weekend and is aimed at younger children.

The apparatus includes a helicopter swing – which has been nicknamed the ‘twirly-whirly’, basket spring, raised trampoline and a battering ram rope swing.

Lily Ward, 5, was putting her gymnastics training to good use on the rope swing.

‘I like how it flies through the air,’ she said. ‘You can do tricks on it too.’

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