New playground slides into place at Horace Mann Elementary

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Disney employees like Kat Reilly shown painting an alphabet hop-scotch, helped improve the playground at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Student parent Patty Alvarez helped create a giant chess board while Disney employees and other parents helped build a new play area on the playground at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Disney employees volunteered their time to improve the playground at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Disney employees like Lauren McDermott, left, and Candela Montero, right, helped plant an herb garden at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Disney employees helped build a new playground on the campus of Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Disney employees and parent volunteers helped improve the playground at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Disney employees John Hsu, on ground, Nitin Chawla, center, and Kym Belzer, right, helped build benches at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Disney employees like Dao-Chau Nguyen, spreading the soil, helped plant an herb garden at Mann Elementary School in Glendale on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Kaboom, Disney and Glendale Educational Foundation got together to build a playground at the school and improve the campus. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

By Kelly Corrigan

July 14, 2016 6:41 PM PT

Volunteers from the Walt Disney Co. — as well as Glendale school officials, local parents and staff of Horace Mann Elementary — installed a new playground at the school on Thursday in a collaboration between Glendale Unified, KaBOOM! and Disney.

KaBOOM!, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit, works to upgrade or build new playgrounds in low-income areas, while also engaging community partners for support by financing part of them and contributing volunteer hours to build them.

The new play area replaces the school’s former metal climbing dome that was about 30 years old, and another 20-year-old apparatus that had monkey bars, but no slide.

Slides were a feature the students requested be part of the new equipment.

Kelly Corrigan, kelly.corrigan@latimes.com

Twitter: @kellymcorrigan