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Tuesday 16th August 2022

School children design bird boxes for sustainability project in South Wales

Pupils at four schools in South Wales have been busy designing and painting bird boxes ready to welcome birds and insects to their new homes in the spring

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Making sustainability fun

As part of our aim to encourage sustainability in and around the community, we asked pupils from Sully Primary, Newton Primary, New Inn Primary and Ysgol Iolo Morganwg to draw their own bird box designs. Out of dozens of entries, 18 designs were picked as the favourites.  

The winning children were then gifted bird boxes and craft supplies, in order to transform plain wooden boxes into colourful and welcoming homes for the birds. 
The completed bird boxes will now be displayed in the show home gardens at four of our developments: Gwel yr Ynys in Sully, The Grange in Newton, Edlogan Wharf in Sebastopol, and Clare Garden Village in Cowbridge. 

Tom Davies-Lyons, Head of the Eco-Council at Sully Primary, said: “We were delighted when Taylor Wimpey approached us about doing this activity. Members of the Eco-Council at Sully Primary School thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the competition to design bird boxes for the new development.  Sara Taylor, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Wimpey South Wales, said: “We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the participating primary schools for getting involved with our competition - they did a fantastic job! We’re always looking for new and innovative ways to involve the local community in our developments so we can’t wait to see the completed bird boxes on display very soon.”