New school for Trimsaran
Work is due to start this spring on a new £6.8million school for Trimsaran – the 64th area to benefit through the Modernising Education Programme. The building will cater for 210 children with 30 full time equivalent nursery places. Swansea-based Dawnus Construction are the contractors for the scheme, and are due to start work on site in April. It will take around 18 months to build, with a targeted opening date of September 2017. Ysgol Trimsaran was founded in 1875 and was originally situated to the north of the campus, where the junior yard is now situated. A separate infants school was built in 1895. In 1955, due to overcrowding and a deterioration of the building, a new infants school was built out of war surplus aluminium. In 1968, the old school was demolished to make way for the junior yard, and in 1975 a purpose built nursery was set up to admit children from their third birthday onwards. In 1989, the infant and junior schools were amalgamated. Now a new school is planned to...