The Twenty-first Century Schools Programme

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:06 pm on 3 July 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 2:06, 3 July 2019

I'm grateful to the Minister for her reply. I'd like to suggest, Minister, this afternoon—to offer you the opportunity to congratulate the governors, the local authority, staff and school pupils at Pontyberem school, which has had substantial investment from the twenty-first century schools fund and is going to be reopened on Monday. I know that you've received an invitation and, unfortunately, you're not able to be with us that day, but I think you will—and I hope that you will—acknowledge that it's been a really effective piece of work that's made really good use of existing estate, that we don't always have to build from scratch—even though sometimes we might want to—but we don't always need to build from scratch to make real difference to the environment in which our teachers are working in and in which our pupils are learning. I hope you will also join me in congratulating Carmarthenshire in being really proactive in making sure that they make the best use of those resources that are available. And, most of all, I hope that you'll wish the parents and pupils and all of us a really happy day on Monday, because it certainly is something to celebrate.