Some Outstanding News!
The Swansea Council has been presented with some fantastic numbers and a not-so-hard-to-make decision. Swansea projects 300 more places will be needed for pupils at Welsh Medium Primary School level in the next few years. Apparently more and more people are deciding to educate their children through the medium of Welsh and numbers of pupils being taught in the English Medium are falling overall! How outstanding is that?!
So the Council has decided to give the go-ahead to build a new £6 million YGG Llwynderw school at a site in West Cross House on West Cross Lane. Construction is due to begin this summer. The school building will cater to 315 pupils and nursery children with play and games areas.
I’m especially pleased about this because of late I keep hearing talk of how the Welsh language is being used less and less across Wales. I never have believed that and now I’ve got statistics to add weight to my argument.
Well done parents of Swansea!!
Stori yn Gymraeg
Story in English
July 8th, 2007 at 8:30 am
More good news!
Cardiff are proposing to open a third Welsh medium comprehensive as well as more primary schools to feed it. The biggest problem Councils have in South Wales is to keep up with demand, as local parents choose Welsh medium ahead of English medium education for thir children.
The biggest challenge now is to encourage/create places where the language can be used socially by young people.