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Special guests receive their prize at official opening
Published: 16/02/2017
There were special guests at the official opening of Custom House Court in
Connah鈥檚 Quay recently.
Along with all the usual VIPs and special guests were Tazmin Roberts-Lamb and
Logan Burdsall, pupils at Ysgol Cae鈥檙 Nant, with their headteacher, Mrs
Fox-Parry.
Tazmin, a year 6 pupil, and Logan, who is in year 3, were joint winners in a
competition held at the nearby school to name the new development of twelve
council houses which have been built on the former site of Custom House Lane
School. They both came up with the name Custom House Court and received their
prize, in the form of vouchers, from the Leader of the Council, Councillor
Aaron Shotton.
Mrs Fox-Parry said:
鈥淥n behalf of our school, I鈥檇 like to thank everyone who has been involved in
this development and Wates Residential for their generous donation to our
school. I spent 21 years at the old school, 15 of them as headteacher, before
we moved to our brand new premises just up the road five years ago. This
development has breathed new life into the area and it has been sensitively
built to include some of the features of the old school, for example the
sandstone gateposts.
鈥淒uring the construction, the children worked on two abstract mosaics which are
now on one of the walls of the development, along with the old school sign.
We鈥檒l be able to bring the children here to see where the old school was which
will be a fantastic opportunity for them to ask questions and then to go back
and investigate the history of their school and their local area.鈥�
Cllr Shotton said, as he presented the prizes to Tazmin and Logan:
鈥淚鈥檓 delighted to be able to present you both with these vouchers 鈥� I hope you
enjoy spending them and congratulations to you both for coming up with a really
great name for this exciting new development in Connah鈥檚 Quay.鈥�
The Custom House Court development represents the first new council houses to
be built in Wales in over 20 years.
Cllr Shotton with Logan, Tazmin and Mrs Fox-Parry