FLYING START: Headteacher Amanda Jones and pupils at Nant Celyn Primary School
IT WAS all smiles as pupils stepped through the gates of their new Cwmbran school for their first day of term yesterday.
The £6.4million Nant Celyn Primary School replaces the old Brookfield and Hollybush schools and is the first school to be built in Torfaen since the council was established in 1996.
Headteacher Amanda Jones welcomed children for the start of the new school year to the 420-pupil building.
Work on the single-storey school began in July 2009 and the name Nant Celyn, which means Hollybrook in English, was chosen by former Hollybush Primary School pupil Nathan Corbin who won a competition to name the new building.
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