The extension to Trinity Fields School and Resource Centre has been officially opened before half term with special guests in attendance.
The two-storey extension provides additional classrooms to accommodate up to an additional 80 pupils with specialist intervention areas, a new soft playroom and outdoor play spaces together with a relocated memorial garden and school allotment area. This project was jointly funded by Caerphilly Council and Welsh Government through the Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme, which forms part of the Council’s wider Place Shaping Strategy.
The new wing that links seamlessly to the original school was constructed by Willmott Dixon and ensures that the school can cater for the growing demand for places and the changing and more complex needs of the Additional Learning Needs (ALN) pupils across the county borough, both now and in the future.
This project, which includes the refurbishment of the existing school facilities alongside the new two-storey extension, totalled approximately £18million.
Cllr Carol Andrews, Cabinet Member for Education and Communities, said “This investment is a powerful statement of our shared commitment to giving every child in the county borough the very best start. The facility has been shaped around the needs and potential of the pupils that attend. They will help children learn, play and thrive – and I cannot wait to see the amazing things that will be achieved here.”
Headteacher, David Jenkins, also commented “It has been a privilege to lead the school through this exciting period of change which has resulted in a state of the art, multi-million-pound extension for our pupils, their families and staff. Today’s formal opening is a fitting celebration of the ethos, culture and sheer hard work associated with our school and its partners. There are too many people to thank individually but on behalf of the school, my sincerest thanks must go to Welsh Government, Caerphilly Council, our Governing Body, the previous headteacher who started the journey and our principal contractor Wilmott Dixon for making our pupils’ dreams a reality.”
