Then between 1946 and 1947, the name of the school was changed to Porth Secondary Grammar School. My friend Richard Lewis, who has died aged 78, was a distinguished television producer and director, who worked for BBC Wales for more than 25 years. The people who benefitted most from the old educational system are those who got jobs that either no longer exist now or which today you need a degree to have any chance of getting into. If you are ok with anonymous tracking please click ok, Support our Nation today - please donate here. [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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. If not, be warned We waited for the terrible threat. Some of my schoolmates were later imprisoned for running an extortion racket that began at school. Once a year, a Trio of stiff classical musicians were summoned up from Cardiff to bring us the delights of Mozart and Beethoven. It is not a new language nor is it an accent of English. This superb school selected from the finest minds in the Rhondda, despite. Jammy to come under the sway of Santos and his staff and their ambitions. 04-06-08 Good Morning Porth. Let us know. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Porth County Community School, and is written by contributors. Porth county school for girls, Rhondda Mid Glamorgan, Have you found an error with this catalogue description? Card schools got going on the back benches. The falling out and the falling in. French was a proper modern language, a language with a future, the Common Market and all of that. But the great thing about working in television is that people are willing to do the daftest things if theyre going to be filmed. At the time, so its pupils boasted, with schoolboy exaggeration, there were only three such computers in the whole world in the Kremlin, the Pentagon and Porth County. Corpus Christi, Oxford had quite a few students from the Rhondda because of that school, and even Nasa drew on talent from Porth County. John On The Rhondda is based on John Geraints popular Rhondda Radio talks and podcasts. 15 out of 212 secondary schools in Wales (as of 2014). Upcoming Lectures; Lecture Archive; Projects . He was also a mentor for many young people joining the corporation at that time. The school was built to cater for pupils between the ages of ten and fifteen years-old, but there were many problems from the start. More like this History Projects Local History Steep South Wales Auntie Lineup Parents April Wedding Photography April 1961. Santos fostered a special link with one of the top Oxford colleges. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. 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
It was The Way Out the means of escape from the drudgery of the pits. Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. The Wild West had nothing on it. After all, it was twenty years ago. The BBC have sent Stephen Evans to North Korea, so they most likely know he went to my school. Gill Rowlands has died at a hospice near her home in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire. Their playing ground to a halt. History. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. 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. After a tour of the school, the ceremony was performed by Mr W. E. Thomas (the chairman of the Rhondda Education Committee) in the absence of Mr W. G. Howell (the Director of Education) due to ill-health. In recent years she suffered a series of health issues, but bore them all without complaint. The former pupils of that intake have been meeting in October for the past three. 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That will take a lot more than rebranding comprehensives and introductinggreater selection. She said: He always put family first and was happily married to Falmai for sixty-five years. Continuing our series by John Geraint, author of The Great Welsh Auntie Novel, and one of Waless most experienced documentary-makers. Cowbridge was the posh place you aspired to - people who lived there worked in Cardiff. More disturbingly, The Guardian discovered that the use of steroids was "spreading" from the gym to the playground. The Rhondda Cynon Taff council has said that the school closures would be part of their proposed 75million investment, which they say would provide "improved educational facilities" and "opportunities" for nearly 7,000 children.[19]. [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. Catalogue description Porth county school for girls, Rhondda Mid Glamorgan Ordering and viewing options This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded. privacy policy, county secondary LEA 357, 551, 557, 559, 574/40004169, Need more context? Promoted to studio director in 1963, when I first met him in the news department, Richard worked on innovative news programmes including Wales Today and the first Welsh-language magazine programme, Heddiw. If you would like to donate to help keep Nation.Cymru running then you just need to click on the box below, it will open a pop up window that will allow you to pay using your credit / debit card or paypal. The school catered for 240 pupils under the headmaster ship of John Stradling Grant. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. At some point in time the grammar school was split in two sections, one half being known as Porth County Girls and the other half being known as Porth County Boys. Of course, it would have been different if Id been at the Welsh School the Welsh School its an odd phrase, isnt it? It produced phenomenal Physicists, champion Chemists, brilliant Biologists, maestros of Maths. I chose Cymraeg. 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Porth Countys reputation was well established by the time an ambitious but unconventional young headmaster was appointed to the Boys School in 1961: Owen Vernon Jones. Porth Grammar School. 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 .