School History
St Asaph VP Church in Wales Controlled Infant School is situated in the Cathedral city of St Asaph in the beautiful Vale of Clwyd in North Wales.
Our school was founded by Thomas Vowler Short, who was Bishop of St Asaph between 1846–1870. He was responsible for establishing two Church schools of which the VP was one, built in 1863 at a cost of £1,800.
The original infant school was sited on what is now the Cathedral car park. Initially our school building accepted children aged 7-14 after they had completed their time at the Infant school. The schools were later combined into what is now the VP Infant School with children attending from ages 4-14 and later ages 4-11. In the 1970s it was decided to build a new Junior school on the Ashly Court estate and this was opened in 1977 which resulted in the VP School becoming an infant school for ages 3-7. In November 2013 we celebrated 150 years of learning here at St Asaph VP Infants with a concert in the Cathedral.