But back then there was only one Junior School in the whole Rhondda that taught in Welsh Ysgol Gymraeg Ynyswen. You dont know what youve got till its gone, or so they say. Porth County Community School is a secondary school located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. John On The Rhondda is broadcast at about 3.15pm as part of David Arthurs Wednesday Afternoon Show onRhondda Radio, All episodes of the John On The Rhondda podcast are availablehere, John Geraints debut in fiction, The Great Welsh Auntie Novel, is available from all good bookshops, or directly fromCambria Books. The school was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of two leading grammar schools, Porth County Girls and Porth County Boys, along with the amalgamation of the Secondary Modern Schools of Llwyncelyn, Trealaw and Ynyshir.Porth is now described as a good school and the previous Porth Infants . The hours, the days, the weeks, the whole terms when you were sick and tired of it, simply ached for it to be over, for the summer holidays to be here. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. When I got to my O level year, the set poem for group recital in the Urdd Eisteddfod turned out to be Y Ffynhonnau. But more was gained, for more pupils, across the whole of the Rhondda, by treating everyone as though they had the right to the best that school could offer, by refusing to make anyone think they might be second best for life just because they hadnt excelled in a certain sort of test when they were 11. But Santos was mightily persistent. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, BD - Records created or inherited by the Welsh Office and the Wales Office, Division within BD - Records of the Education divisions, BD 50 - Welsh Office and predecessors: HM Inspectorate of Schools: Unregistered Papers, About our
Available for both RF and RM licensing. This can't be a separate issue. Porths academic strengths were in the Sciences. The school was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of two leading grammar schools, Porth County Girls and Porth County Boys, along with the amalgamation of the Secondary Modern Schools of Llwyncelyn, Trealaw and Ynyshir. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Richard Lewis worked on innovative news programmes including Wales Today and the first Welsh-language magazine programme, Heddiw. Porth is now described as a super school and the previous Porth Infants . You can order records in. This information will help us make improvements to the website. But that won't happen without a revolution in our entire approach to education and industry. Are they definitely Rhondda grammar schools? But there were some places its pupils werent going. The 1891 and 1901 census show William and Sarah living at Lake Street in Ferndale. One year, it all got so bad, that he felt he had to intervene just as the Trio were getting into their stride mid-Movement. The Pendyrus choir got involved. So there we all were, a thousand strong, one summers morning, processing across Penrhys, behind the Maerdy Miners Lodge Banner, and the Treorchy Comprehensive school band. Catcalls and sniggers. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. Children of various ages attend the school, ranging from 316 years old.[1]. Home; Lectures . He was said to have courted his wife by galloping on horseback up to her house on the steep slopes of Blaenclydach. My great grandfathers name Was William James, his wifes name was Sarah. Read tagging guidelines. This superb school selected from the finest minds in the Rhondda, despite. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The unfairness of it all. And when the Ynyswen children got to secondary school age, to continue their lessons in Welsh they had to be bussed out of the valley down to Rhydfelen, beyond Pontypridd. But its not just in retrospect that our eyes can be opened to the worth of education. Many of his Porth County past pupils attended his funeral last week including Dr Kelvin Roberts, head of Pirtek Group of Companies, who gave a eulogy. If you don't have an account please register. "[13], On 18 May 2009 acclaimed Welsh actor Michael Sheen spoke with members of the schools film club. After senior house officer posts at Cardiff and Sully hospitals he joined the Hammersmith Hospital, where he was registrar under Ralph Shackman and Geoff Chisholm. There were five Welsh-language junior schools Llwyncelyn and Bronllwyn, Bodringallt and Llyn y Forwyn in Ferndale, as well as Ynyswen and a big Comprehensive in Cymmer. Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsssisch or Elssserditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elssserdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsssisch or Elssserdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France that has passed between French and German control five times since 1681. Eventually, thanks to them, and a summer spent working on a couple of farms in Carmarthenshire, I became fluent in Welsh well, fluent enough to make TV programmes in the language anyway. [7][8] The school was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of two leading grammar schools, Porth County Girls and Porth County Boys, along with the amalgamation of the Secondary Modern Schools of Llwyncelyn, Trealaw and Ynyshir. THE PALOUSE . On Sunday, October 8, a group of these 1956 first-formers met for lunch in the Heritage Park Hotel in Trehafod, followed by a trip to the school premises, now part of Porth Community School. Your search results for obituary: 11 newspaper articles contained information about obituary filtered by: Date from: 1st Jan 1948 - Date to: 1st Jan 1948 The Guardian went on to say that staff at 'Porth County Community School' had "caught young teenagers" using steroids at the school, and on one occasion, found steroids on the school premises. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. It sent off those children to careers around the UK and the world. Pressure, pressure, pressure from parents to excel, from peers to be normal, from yourself just to be yourself, in spite of them all. Continuing our series by John Geraint, author of The Great Welsh Auntie Novel, and one of Waless most experienced documentary-makers. By then, Welsh had begun to flourish again in the Rhondda. We could bring back every damn aspect of my grammar School, and some of it would be heaven to someone like me. Porth County Grammar School, Mid Glamorgan, Wales 1970- 1976 View Wayne's full profile See who you know in common Get introduced Contact Wayne directly Join to view full profile Looking for. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Miners put pennies aside, built schools for their sons and daughters, and when universal secondary education became a right, the Rhondda Borough Council invested heavily in it. I saw it when I looked at a copy of the school magazine from the 1960s. This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Young people who pursue a vocational route must also know that they are "The Chosen", that they have no limits on their potential and that their future is assured. And its still one of my proudest achievements that we did it, we won First Prize in the Eisteddfod we beat Rhydfelen at their own language their own language there you go, another strange phrase. The sheer torture of the whole deal. Maybe the maverick in him was attracted to a degree of anarchy. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. There followed a succession of compelling network dramas in close collaboration with the writer Paul Ferris, most notably Dylan: Life and Death of Poet (1982), Nye (1981), about Aneurin Bevan, the founding father of the NHS, and The Extremist (1984), on the attempted bombing of the Prince of Waless investiture in 1969. And yet who doesnt remember school with at least a sliver of fondness, if only for the friends we made, the time we had with them, for the fact that we were young then, and that was our time? From as late as 1915, school inspectors found students aged nineteen to still be attending the institution. Innate intelligence can be targetted and developed. Its architect was Rowland Lloyd Jones, who also designed most of the other Caernarvonshire schools. You need to sign in to tag. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. All Im saying is that I was jammy. The family feel truly blessed to have had such a treasure of a man for 90 years and know his influence is a lasting legacy not only on their own lives but also on the lives of so many. That magazine is redolent with the things we would like for our children today. Outlaws bullies roamed the corridors and burst into classrooms. Christine retired from Ellen Wilkinson owing to ill health in 1993, but then spent many happy years as companion to her mother, travelling across Europe in search of new opera productions. Read tagging guidelines. Everyone has their own story. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. China Entrepreneur Voices Of Experience From 40 Business Pioneers Paperback . Porth County Grammar School badge and report card images by John Geraint The Ranch But, like Santos, Porth was a school with something of a split personality. The former pupils of that intake have been meeting in October for the past three years and, while the organisers have managed to track down most of their fellow pupils, some are still missing. So almost all of my class decided to try to 'parler franais'. The curse of every childs life. [17], Along with eleven other schools (three secondary and eight primary schools) in the surrounding areas, 'Porth County Community School' could face closure. The UK can be stronger but we do not have proper leaders who er, lead !! of any that money could buy. We did think of Welsh like that, but it was our language too. The group is for ex pupils to get in touch with fellow pupils and share memories Private Only members can see who's in the group and what they post. The results were predictable. The first three forms were housed in a wooden structure put up as a temporary measure during the Second World War. Enter your email address to receive instant notifications of new articles. Back when I was in Junior School things were a bit different. 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