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Social NetworksFunding Secured for New School
Jul 14th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Cardiff, Education, Featured
Cardiff Council’s bid for a School Buildings Improvement Grant from the Welsh Assembly Government to progress in partnership with the Church in Wales to plan a new school for St Teilo’s High has been successful.
Council Leader Rodney Berman and Executive Member for Education and Lifelong Learning, Cllr Freda Salway, have welcomed the award of almost £27m which will allow the Council to move forward with its school organisation plans in the Llanedeyrn area of the city, subject to Ministerial approval.
The Council is currently awaiting this decision from the Assembly on its statutory proposal to close Llanedeyrn High School, re-locating St Teilo’s to the Llanedeyrn site and the subsequent refurbishment of the St Teilo’s site for it to be opened as the city’s third Welsh-medium secondary school. A decision is expected in the autumn.
Cllr Berman said: “We are delighted to have secured the funding from the Welsh Assembly Government to move ahead in partnership with the Church in Wales to plan a new school for St Teilo’s and for the refurbishment of the current St Teilo’s site for it to accommodate the city’s third Welsh medium secondary school. Such proposals were dependent on the funding being made available for such a programme.
“Council and WAG officials will now work together to finalise the contract and its finer details. All of this is of course dependent on the Minister approving the proposals in the autumn.”
Cllr Salway said: “This is a very positive step forward. We are now hopeful that the Minister’s decision on this proposal will allow us to invest the money to progress the plan.”
The proposal is part of the Council’s schools organisation plan which seeks to address the issue of surplus places, the increasing demand for Welsh medium education and the growing backlog of school building repairs, and create a fair and well-funded education system that is fit for the 21st Century.
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As as parent of two children who attend Llanederyn High School, I am disgusted by the Council's blatantly agendist handling of our childrens' future education (or in the case of the children in our area) lack there of.
My children are not baptised and are not Welsh speakers therefore if the reorganisation (which comes out of taxpayers' pockets including my own) goes ahead, my children will have no local school. The council's solution? To force them to walk over 3 miles to a grubby, overcrowded, Estyn-slated sink school.
Cardiff council stinks, it stinks of social engineering to have the money pushed into building brand new schools for children who are prepared to be educated via the Welsh language medium. What a suprise from Plaid Cymru. The rest of us can apparently get stuffed until it comes time to pay our council tax.
It's done the world of good for Christian religion in the area, suddenly families are “getting religion” and desperately throwing their babies into the local font so they can secure a place in St Teilo's or Corpus Christi (well it's so much easier than having to learn a language that has very little mileage outside of Wales – and even then hardly heard within the Capital City).
So, there you go folks, even though the overwhelming majority of residents are English speaking and want their children educated so, the council is closing the only non religious English speaking High School. That's what Cardiff council think of the people in East Cardiff. They really don't give a damn about demoncracy, they just want to get what they want. Rodney Berman just wants column inches in any news article going though god knows why, his weasle looks are definitely not deceptive.
Looks like my children will have to be home schooled since the council is hellbent on refusing them their fundamental right to a reasonable education.