Building work restarts at primary schools

BUILDING work is restarting at a number of Carmarthenshire primary schools as the coronavirus lockdown eases.

Construction will recommence at Bynea, Saron, Llangadog and Ysgol Y Castell in Kidwelly.

A new £4.5million building project is underway at Ysgol Llangadog which involves extending, remodelling and refurbishing the existing school to cater for 120 pupils and 30 nursery children.

It will provide state-ofthe-art facilities and accommodation for children and staff that can be shared with the community, as well as off-road parking for staff and visitors.

The works are being carried out by WRW Ltd.

An investment of £7.4million is being made at Kidwelly’s Ysgol Y Castell to provide a replacement 300-pupil English medium primary school building.

This will include 23 additional full time early years places and community facilities including car park, sports pitch and an all weather multisports area.

This new school building addresses the demand for places and provides a new school building of appropriate standard as well as providing community facilities for the area.

Lloyd and Gravell Ltd has been appointed as the main contractor.

Two additional infant classroom extensions are being carried out at both Bynea and Saron schools which will help provide additional space and smaller class sizes in the foundation phase.

Ca rma r t h e n s h i r e Council said this will have a positive impact on the education of pupils by raising standards and enriching their learning experience.

A total of £540,000 is being invested at Bynea and £485,000 at Saron.

All the projects are jointly funded between the council and the Welsh Government through the 21st Century Schools initiative.

Ca rma r t h e n s h i r e Council executive board member for education and children’s services, councillor Glynog Davies said: “It is great news that work can start back on all of these important school projects and hopefully we haven’t lost too much time.”