Gowerton Comprehensive School

Gowerton School
Motto

"Mi ddylwn, mi allaf, mi fynnaf"

English translation: "I should, I can, I shall"
Established 1973
Type Comprehensive
Headteacher Mr Peter Harrison
Location Cecil Road
Gowerton
Swansea
SA4 3DL
Wales Wales
Coordinates: 51°38′33″N 4°02′10″W / 51.64263°N 4.03617°W / 51.64263; -4.03617
Local authority Swansea
DfE number ???/4063
DfE URN 401770 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1350
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Colours Maroon and white
Former name Gowerton Grammar School
Website Gowerton School

Gowerton School is a public secondary school located in the heart of Gowerton village, near Swansea, United Kingdom.

History

Intermediate School

The school opened on 5 October 1896 in Talbot Street as a co-educational Intermediate school under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889. It was known locally as Gowerton County School.

Grammar school

In May, 1940 the Talbot Street school became a boys' grammar school when a girls' grammar school opened on Cecil Road.

Comprehensive

The school in its present form was created in 1973 from the merger of Gowerton Girls' Grammar School and Gowerton Boys' Grammar School. The Upper School was at Cecil Road and the Middle School was on Talbot Road. In 1987 the school was centralised on the Cecil Road (former girls' school) site.

Gowerton School today serves pupils from the north and west of the Gower peninsula and from the Swansea suburbs of Gowerton, Waunarlwydd and Dunvant from age 11 to 18, with a successful sixth form specialising in A level and Welsh Baccalaureate courses.

ESTYN inspections in 1994, 2000, 2005 and 2011 have been consistently good. The 2011 inspection report under the new Welsh inspection framework noted the school's outstanding ethos, inspiring leadership, good performance and excellent prospects, with high academic expectations and achievements, excellent care for pupil welfare and sector leading use of ICT in teaching.[1]

In July 2013, parents supported boys wearing skirts as they had not been permitted to wear school shorts or to roll their trousers up during particularly hot summer weather.[2]

Location

The school is based in a central position of Gowerton, quite a large village. Opposite the school is Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr, a Welsh speaking school.

School layout

The school is large compared to other secondary schools in the UK. It has three main blocks, two demountable blocks and an additional block.

In addition to the main blocks there is also the tennis courts, two playing fields and a redgra adjacent to F Block and C Block.

Former teachers

Notable former pupils

Gowerton Grammar School

References

  1. "Gowerton School". Estyn.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  2. "Swansea schoolboys keep cool in skirts after shorts ban". Daily Telegraph. 15 Jul 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. "Emmy Awards shortlist for Episodes composer Mark Thomas - BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-04.

External links

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