Following submitting an application for funding from the Welsh Government's Welsh Medium Capital Grant for an creating additional classrooms in Ysgol Chwilog, Ysgol Llanllechid and Ysgol Bro Lleu, in response to a predicted increase in pupil numbers as a result of housing developments, a report was presented to Cabinet on 19 July 2022 asking for their support to proceed to submit full business cases to the Welsh Government to secure funding from the Welsh-medium Education Capital Grant scheme to deliver the purposes of the following projects:
a) Project 1 - Invest over £1.1m to increase capacity and improve the learning environment of Gwynedd Language Centres - the second phase.
b) Project 2 - Invest over £1.5m in capital funding and £0.3m in revenue funding to increase the capacity of three schools (Llanllechid, Bro Lleu and Chwilog), in order to support Welsh communities of linguistic significance (i.e. the communities with over 70% of Welsh speakers) to thrive.
The report also asked for Cabinet approval to carry out a statutory consultation on the proposal to increase the capacity of Ysgol Chwilog to 95, which is an increase of over 25% to the existing capacity, in accordance with the requirements of Section 48 of the Schools Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013, and report back to the Cabinet after completing the consultation.
Following consideration the Cabinet approved the proposals.
Further Information:
The Cabinet 19th July 2022 (item 6)