Sustainable Schools Challenge

Synopsis

Through the Welsh Government’s Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme bids were commissioned for the innovative delivery of two new primary schools in Wales that demonstrated innovation and collaboration with local communities – including school pupils – in their design, delivery and management.  Such was the interest in the Sustainable Schools Challenge three successful bids were chosen to progress: these being Bontnewydd Community Campus in Gwynedd, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Rhosafan in Neath Port Talbot and a new primary school in the Glyn-coch community of Rhondda Cynon Taf.

The approach taken by each of the three project teams will present the pathway taken for their exciting design and collaborative approach and will act as a blueprint for future school developments. They offer an opportunity to learn about sustainability, and also for learners to have an opportunity to be involved with the design (including appointment of a design team!) and delivery of these buildings, to shape the environment they will learn with and to understand how decisions taken today have an impact on their future.

Bontnewydd Community Campus, Gwynedd

• Aimee Jones, TACP Architects
• Richard Farmer, Gwynedd Council

Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Rhosafan, Neath Port Talbot

Glyn-coch, Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Daniel Jones, Willmott Dixon
• Nicola Millard, Willmott Dixon
• Jessica Roach, Willmott Dixon
• James Page, Stride Treglown
• Mark Morant, Arda Consulting
• Rhondda Cynon Taf representatives