Rhosnesni High School

Coordinates: 53°03′18″N 2°58′26″W / 53.055°N 2.974°W / 53.055; -2.974

Rhosnesni High School, also known as Ysgol Rhosnesni High School, is a high school created in 2003 by Wrexham County Borough council as a part of their controversial "super schools" plan.

History

In 2002 plans were ratified by the Welsh Assembly to create two 'super' schools in Wrexham, with an emphasis on vocational education.[1] Opposition to the plans was received from parents, with a petition of over 1000 signatures was delivered to the Wrexham County Counci in April 2002.[1] Nearby Yale College, which was to offset the some costs of the project by buying the Groves school and selling land, dropped out.

By late 2003 it became apparent that the original £12 million budget for upgrades would fall short by about £10 million because inflation was not accounted for in estimates. Nonetheless, the county council approved overspends allowing the schools to be upgraded as planned. Both of the new schools serve around 2500 pupils age 11 through to 16. [2]

Three secondary schools were merged into two schools: Rhosnesni (formerly known as St. David's School), and Ysgol Clywedog (formerly known as Bryn Offa). The third school, Groves, was used as a temporary site for Rhosnesni, Ysgol Clywedog and another local school, St Joseph's Catholic High School, while improvements were made to their permanent sites. The Groves was shut down entirely in 2006 and remained unused until its partial demolition in 2013/'14. As of 2016, the oldest part of the Groves school building still remains and there is talk of demolition.

In 2014 a report by Wrexham Council showed that there had been a big fall in admissions to Wrexham's super schools. The percentage of primary school pupils applying to Rhosnesni had fallen from 71% to 36%. Rhosnesni was one of 40 Welsh schools that was chosen to take part in a Welsh government scheme to improve standards.[3]

Location

Rhosnesni School is in Wrexham, north Wales on Rhosnesni Lane. It opened in 2003 at a temporary site on Penymaes Avenue and later moved to its current site in 2004. The school buildings were rebuilt and opened in September 2004, and new buildings were erected with the same style as similar buildings at Ysgol Clywedog. A ceremony giving the school an official opening was conducted in April 2005. As with Ysgol Clywedog, the school is completely new, and students from the old schools were asked to create the logo and uniform. The logo contains the letters YRHS, which is an abbreviation for Ysgol Rhosnesni High School. The students also created a new motto, they came up with "Respect, Honesty, Success" which shares the school's initials. The current headteacher is Mr. Gareth Hughes.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "'Super' schools plan given green light". BBC News. 1 November 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "'Super schools' funding approved". BBC News. 10 December 2003. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Rhosnesni and Clywedog high schools admissions concern". BBC News. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

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