Artwork by primary school children on proud display at Rhyl development
Anwyl Construction, appointed contractors for an exciting £1.4 million housing development in Abbey Street, Rhyl organised a competition and the artwork is now on proud display on site.
The art competition for the Year Four pupils of Ysgol Bryn Hedydd was organised after they visited the site as part of their World of Work project.
The standard of the entries were so impressive that a special sign was created and is now on proud display on site, showing all the children’s paintings and their names. The Year Four classes and their teachers paid another visit to the Abbey Street site to unveil the sign and for the competition winners to receive their prizes.
Doing the honours was Commercial Manager Simon Rose who said:
“Thank you to all the pupils for their efforts, they’re fantastic”.
“We thought the standard of the work was so good that we wanted to commemorate it and so we have put the names up of everyone who took part in this and when the development is complete we will be handing it over to the school”.
Paul Diggory, Chief Executive of North Wales Housing said
“This development is for the community of Rhyl and part of the re-generation of West Rhyl, so we’re extremely happy to see the children have got involved. Well done to everyone who took part, and to those who won in particular. The standard of the artwork is brilliant, and they deserve pride of place so everyone can see.”
The new Afallon development in Abbey Street is in the heart of the town’s West End and overlooks the Gerddi Heulwen green space which opened last year. The driving force behind the scheme is West Rhyl Housing Co-operative, Wales’s first urban rental housing co-operative, formed by North Wales Housing and West Rhyl Community Land Trust.
The development will create seven new three-bedroom family homes with private gardens and parking and are refurbishing former commercial premises on the ground floor with two one-bedroom and two two-bedroom flats above.
The competition winner was eight-year-old Heather Dawes who said:
“I thought I’d do something about the different skills and jobs the builders were doing and what it would all look like at the end.”
“We discussed it and then planned it all and it was good fun, especially colouring it in and now it’s nice to see it up on the sign.”
Year Four teacher Ceri Jones said:
“It’s been a fantastic project and worked really well with our World of Work week when we were looking at employment and opportunities for the children when they’re grown up.”
When the project is completed this summer the sign will be handed over to the school.
