Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw

_cy. Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw (English: "St Woolos' Comprehensive School") is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school located in Trevethin, Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales and named for Saint Gwynllyw.

History

The school was founded in 1988 as the first Welsh-medium school in the old Gwent and is housed in accommodation previously used for Trevethin Community School (that school then moved to the Victorian buildings that once housed Pontypool Girls' Grammar School).

For its first three years Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw was housed in the old Abercarn Infant School house but soon outgrew the building. As one of the fastest growing schools in Wales, bigger premises were needed and the old Trevethin upper school was suggested by the education authority.

Pupils at the school are taught completely in Welsh and come from a range of Welsh-language feeder schools. The aim is to immerse pupils in Welsh and to enable them to be educated entirely in it as their native language.

An inspection report by Estyn in 2002 stated ninety-five per cent of the pupils come from homes where English is the language of daily life; only five per cent come from Welsh-speaking homes. The school indicates that every pupil speaks Welsh as a first language or to an equivalent standard [ [http://www.estyn.gov.uk/inspection_reports/GwynllywE.pdf= Estyn Inspection Report 2002] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.gwynllyw.org/ Official website]