Ysgol Rhys Prichard

Ysgol Rhys Prichard is a community primary school on the edge of an old market town in the heart of the upper Towy valley, north Carmarthenshire. The school was known as Llandovery County Primary School until December 1994 when it was officially renamed Ysgol Rhys Prichard, Llanymddyfri to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the death of the famous vicar of Llandovery.

The main part of the school consists of a single-storey building built at the turn of the century to accommodate a County Primary Infants School and a County Primary Junior School. The two schools opened on the 3rd October, 1910, and were amalgamated in September 1981 to form a County Primary School.

The internal layout consists of a large central hall providing access to five classrooms, a staff-room and a headteacher’s study and two classrooms and toilets adjacent to the main entrances at the front of the school. A new extension has been built at the school which houses four nursery/infant classes and also includes boys and girls changing and showers rooms, a staff room and an office for the administrative officer. This facility was opened in January 2004. The playground area surrounding the school provides access to the adjacent playing field on one side and the kitchen/dining area on the other.

• To ensure that each pupil is received into a welcoming and secure atmosphere, where he or she will be given an equal opportunity to fulfil his or her true potential, academically, physically, aesthetically, socially, psychologically and spiritually.
• To ensure that the relationship between the home and the school is such that parents and staff can work together in the interests of the pupil.
• To ensure that the environment in which the staff work is such that everyone can achieve personal satisfaction from their tasks and that everyone feels personally involved in the development of the school.