Award winners with the Chairman, Councillor Anne Hughes along with Councillor Huw George, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, Gareth Mills, Change Manager (Education) and William George
Schoolchildren across the County have been researching Pembrokeshire’s medieval sites.
Buildings, towns and monastic communities came under the spotlight in a competition run by the Pembrokeshire Historic Buildings Trust.
Pupils examined several different sites throughout the County including Pembroke Castle and the castles at Carew, Cilgerran, Manorbier and Haverfordwest.
Tenby’s town walls were also researched as were churches at Rudbaxton and St Dogmaels and the Cathedral and Bishops Palace at St David’s.
The competition culminated in a presentation ceremony last month at County Hall in Haverfordwest, where the winners were awarded their prizes and others received certificates.
The event was organised by the Pembrokeshire Historic Buildings Trust and hosted by Pembrokeshire County Council.
Council Chairman, Councillor Anne Hughes said it was wonderful to see pupils involved in such worthwhile and fascinating work.
“I congratulate all the winners and all those who took part,” she said.
“We are very lucky to live in an area that is rich in history with so many buildings from the past still with us to inspire today’s generation of school children.”
Chairman of the Trust in Pembrokeshire, William George, praised the quality of the research, description and presentation exhibited by all pupils and said the judges had been very impressed.
“The aim of the competition is to foster interest in the abundance of historic buildings and sites in the County and also broaden knowledge of our valuable heritage to a much wider field,” he said.
He added the Trust was very pleased the competition was attracting a growing number of entries and hoped that next year all eight secondary schools in the County would take part.
This year year 7/8 school pupils from Sir Thomas Picton, Pembroke, Greenhill, Milford, Ysgol Dewi Sant and Ysgol Bro Gwaun (Fishguard) entered projects for the competition.
Ben Phillips from Ysgol Bro Gwaun won first prize for his project on Cilgerran Castle with Felix Ellis of Sir Thomas Picton second (Llawhadden Castle) and Elinor Davies of Ysgol Dewi Sant third (St David’s Cathedral).
Projects by Tom Bryant (Pembroke) Shona McEvoy (Ysgol Dewi Sant) and Rachelle Vickery (Greenhill) were highly commended while Anna Maria Cutolo (Milford) was commended.
In the Welsh language competition all three prize winners came from Ysgol Bro Gwaun. Ben Lawrence won first prize for his project on St Dogmaels Abbey with Osian Smith second (Bishop’s Palace) and Abigail Hruzik (Pembroke Castle) third.
Projects by Kelly Robinson (Ysgol Dewi Sant), Sophie Jamieson (Ysgol Bro Gwaun) and Alys Lewis (Ysgol Bro Gwaun) were highly commended.
