A GROUND-BREAKING ceremony was held to celebrate the start of construction on Ysgol Gynradd Wirfoddol Dyffryn Cledlyn.

The project is for the construction of a new area school on a site at Drefach near the A475 highway between Lampeter and Llandysul to merge Llanwnnen, Llanwenog and Cwrtnewydd primary schools.

Cllr Ellen ap Gwynn, Ceredigion County Council leader, said: “I am pleased to be here to start the building project for the children of the Dyffryn Cledlyn area. It’s very important to celebrate the first step of the journey in the company of some of the pupils.

“This is another step in the building process to provide some of the best teaching facilities in Wales for Ceredigion students.”

The school has been designed to accommodate 135 pupils, and inside facilities will include early years, infants and junior classrooms, a specialist classroom and resource area, multi-purpose spaces and community area, a main hall of 200 square metres, and a school kitchen. Outside facilities will include a sports pitch, a permeable tarmac multi-games area, safety play areas for nursery pupils and an ecology area.

Cllr Hag Harris, Cabinet member with responsibility for learning services, children and young people’s partnership, said: “The unique selling point of this building is to provide 21st century school educational facilities in fit-for-purpose accommodation, that will be accessible and appropriate for the local communities around Drefach.”

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