“You wouldn’t know you were walking and talking in the most deprived ward in Wales,” says headteacher Andrew James. He’s standing in the playground outside Perthcelyn Community Primary School. Built in 1999 with EU funding, the building is a Scandinavian design with timber beams, glass fronts and sunlight streaming through. Inside, 120 children of nursery and primary school age are working and playing in immaculately-presented and well-equipped class rooms. Every child has a login to dozens of Apple Mac computers and the nursery has its own interactive i-board. In the richly-stocked library, David Walliams and Enid Blyton are the most in-demand authors on the electronic book tracking system. The spectacular views from this spot on the western side of the Cynon Valley are well worth the effort to trudge up the hill to the school. You would be forgiven for thinking that beneath your feet was expensive sought-after real estate. But you would be wrong. Two weeks ago, the Penrhiwceiber council ward within which this school site was named as the place with the highest rate of child poverty in Wales, at 49%. To put it another way, according to these numbers, every other child here is living in poverty…. Read full this story
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