{"id":82056,"date":"2020-09-07T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=82056"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:22:25","slug":"catholic-school-rhyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/catholic-school-rhyl\/82056\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier hands over \u00a321m Catholic school in Rhyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The \u00a321m Christ the Word Catholic School will create a new \u2018all-through\u2019 school and is funded in partnership by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denbighshire.gov.uk\/en\/resident\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denbighshire County Council<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Welsh Government<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Christ the Word, an English medium school for 420 full-time pupils aged 3-11 years old and 500 pupils aged 11-16. The initial driver for change was the need to improve the teaching and learning facilities at both schools.<\/p>\n<p>The new 3-16 school, for the Diocese of Wrexham, replaces Ysgol Mair \/ St. Mary\u2019s primary Catholic school and Blessed Edward Jones Catholic high school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kier<\/a> delivered the project on a very constrained site, with both schools remaining fully operational throughout the build. Once the new school was completed and officially opened, the two old schools were demolished.<\/p>\n<h3>The new facility includes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A chapel<\/li>\n<li>Four-court sports hall<\/li>\n<li>Main hall<\/li>\n<li>Small hall<\/li>\n<li>Drama studio<\/li>\n<li>All-weather pitch<\/li>\n<li>Specialist classrooms such as music, design technology, science etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Supporting adults with learning disabilities<\/h3>\n<p>Kier is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/dover-grammar-school-for-boys\/81489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">currently delivering a number of schemes<\/a> across the North West and in May last year completed the Adult Day Care Centre for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintshire.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flintshire County Council<\/a>.\u00a0The \u00a34m scheme was the 1000th project delivered by Kier under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scapegroup.co.uk\/services\/procure\/frameworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scape framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The centre includes community and craft rooms to replace the existing building and specialises in community daytime facilities and social care services for vulnerable adults with varying degrees of learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The centre is called Hwb Cyfle meaning opportunity hub with services at the centre operated by Hft, a charity which supports adults with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<h3>A modern learning space<\/h3>\n<p>Peter Commins, regional director for Kier Regional Building North West, said: \u201cWe are pleased to hand over this project to the client, providing much-needed enhanced and modern learning space for its pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince last September and before Covid-19, the school has been operational, and we have been finalising the external works, whilst operating under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Leadership Council\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/v5-site-operating-procedures\/78465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Site Operating Procedures<\/a> which are based on the UK Government\u2019s instructions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a321m Christ the Word Catholic School will create a new \u2018all-through\u2019 school and is funded in partnership by Denbighshire County Council and the Welsh Government, through its 21st Century Schools and Education Capital Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,114,997,3649,276,472],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-demolition","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-kier"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kier hands over \u00a321m Catholic school in Rhyl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The \u00a321m Christ the Word Catholic School will create a new \u2018all-through\u2019 school and is funded in partnership by Denbighshire County Council\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/catholic-school-rhyl\/82056\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kier hands over \u00a321m Catholic school in Rhyl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The \u00a321m Christ the Word Catholic School will create a new \u2018all-through\u2019 school and is funded in partnership by Denbighshire County Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/catholic-school-rhyl\/82056\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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