Ysgol yr Hendre () is a Welsh/Spanish-medium primary school in the large town of

Trelew Trelew (, from cy, tref "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River, wi ...

Chubut Province Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes rang ...

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. It was opened on 6 March 2006, initially to teach children between three and five years of age in Welsh and Spanish. The Chubut education authorities authorised the establishment of the school and supports its aims. The school is twinned with Ysgol Pentreuchaf near Pwllheli in Wales. Its name literally means ‘School of the Old Homestead/Dwelling’, where (‘old residence’) is another way to say . The development of the school was financed in part by a fundraising campaign in Wales led by the politician

Dafydd Wigley Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley, (born David Wigley; 1 April 1943) is a Welsh politician. He served as Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarfon from 1974 until 2001 and as Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 1999 until 2003. He w ...

and the artist Sir Kyffin Williams, which raised over US$60,000 in less than two years. The school was part of a 21st-century revival in Welsh in "the Welsh colony"

Y Wladfa Y Wladfa (, "The Colony"), also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig (, "The Welsh Settlement"), refers to the establishment of settlements by Welsh immigrants in Patagonia, beginning in 1865, mainly along the coast of the lower Chubut Valley. I ...

on the Chubut River ( in Welsh). It is one of several active Welsh schools and nurseries. In 2005 there were 62 Welsh classes in Chubut, and Welsh was on the curriculum of two primary schools and two colleges in the Gaiman catchment area. In 2018 there were three bilingual Welsh-Spanish schools in Chubut Province.

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Project-Hiraeth – Documents the stories of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina through film, text and illustration.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ysgol Yr Hendre Education in Chubut Province Welsh settlement in Patagonia Welsh-language schools 2006 establishments in Argentina Educational institutions established in 2006