Open for Play: Miss Janet’s Playground

Coming Together to Make a Difference Open for Play: Miss Janet’s Playground

In May, ECC families gathered to dedicate a transformed playground to its beloved director, Janet Giovinazzo H’01, P’12, P’15. The play space that many boys remember from their elementary school days at CHA has been replaced with two large play structures and a series of features built with elements from nature that are appropriate for our youngest students—a natural sandbox, a “rock river” with a bridge, a series of stepping logs, and a big hill and tunnel. A slide was added to provide a fun and fast transport for ECC students to slip from the back patio to the grass. A beautiful sign designed by Pia Druggan which reads “Miss Janet’s Playground” will now hang on the fencing surrounding the playground (along W. Springfield Avenue). Many thanks to the McCausland Family and the McCausland Foundation as well as the many other donors who made this fabulous new outdoor space possible. The children of ECC LOVE it! SCH, always mindful of an opportunity to repurpose and reuse, was pleased to be able to donate the Jordan building playground equipment to the Community Partnership School in North Central Philadelphia, thus enabling a whole new group of elementary school students the chance to enjoy it.

It’s wonderful to see our youngest students enjoy and utilize the new outdoor space. It’s created an incredible opportunity for exploration, creativity, and play.

- Janet Giovinazzo H’01, P’12, P’15