You can order records in advance to be ready for you when you visit Kew. It was thejobs which were on offer when you left. He retired in 1997 to write poetry and spend more time with his family. 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. Jammy that our time happened to be the very time when the Boys began to meet the Girls in class as well outside of school. This information will help us make improvements to the website. Upcoming Lectures; Lecture Archive; Projects . We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Porth is now described as a good school and the previous Porth Infants . You can order records in advance to be ready for you when you visit Kew. 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. Community school in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. John On The Rhondda is based on John Geraints popular Rhondda Radio talks and podcasts. 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]. 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 . This record is stored off site and will take. 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. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Porth is now described as a good school and the previous Porth Infants and Porth Juniors schools have all moved to the Porth Community School to form the new school. You will need a reader's ticket to do this. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. I saw it when I looked at a copy of the school magazine from the 1960s. But the really important story about my school and others like them was not blazers, test results or even the teaching. May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'WIKIPEDIA Mako Vunipola Article Talk A Vunipola (born 14 January 1991) professional rugby union player who plays loosehead prop English club Saracens and the England national team. We don't just want asupply-side education that feeds poor kids into degrees. One of the greatest grammar schools in South Wales was the school my father and his brother went to Porth County. 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 when up on the big screen those hundreds of children, all of them Welsh speakers, stood in front of the statue on Penrhys, up above the Spring and the Holy Well, and they began to chant the poems most famous line, Maer ffynhonnaun fyw! (The mountain springs are alive!), it really did feel like we were all part of something vital and thriving; and that Welsh, too, was a language of the future right there in the Rhondda. Then between 1946 and 1947, the name of the school was changed to Porth Secondary Grammar School. And the English we spoke, though we might not have realised it, was full of Welsh too. 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. There are adverts for jobs in banks, building societies and local industry, because most boys went straight from school to professional careers. becoming a Swan. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. 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Conventional school discipline wasnt really his thing. There was a great deal of controversy over providing further education in the Rhondda. The place was packed out. Christine attended Porth County grammar school for girls before graduating from Swansea University with a BA in French. Connect with Nation.Cymru on Facebook and Twitter. 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. They join us from large companies, small agencies, as independent creators and everything. For me, because poems and plays were my thing, that last piece of luck was the best of all: because I fell under the spell of someone who would never have taught me otherwise, one of the Girls School staff: an inspirational English teacher who knew how to conjure life out of words on a page, how to spark magic on stage, how to work the alchemy that brings poetry alive in young minds. We need more of the kind of degree apprentice routes my own university offers to industry-sponsored young people who may not pass an 11-plusbut who, with the right training and support, can and will become the engineers and industry CEOs of the future. Family History And Search. There were snacks to snaffle, dinner money to be extorted, pain to be inflicted simply for the pleasure of it. A lively member of the staff room, Christine became head of modern languages at Ellen Wilkinson, and had a reputation for getting the best out of her pupils, as well as for having a positive influence on their lives outside of school. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. But, in practice, something may have been lost in the transition: the ambition to give every child not just schooling, which focuses the mind, but education which broadens it. 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 . If we are to stand a chance in a post-Brexit world we need an education system that is part of this, with a real future for clever kids from any background to do good jobs with prospects. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. ), Italian caf owners and a man who kept champion racing pigeons. [9] Jones was headmaster from 1961 to 1984, and saw the amalgamation of the 'Porth County Girls' and 'Porth County Boys' grammar schools (along with the Secondary Modern Schools of Llwyncelyn, Trealaw and Ynyshir) into what is now known as 'Porth County Community School'. She has 2 boys who attended Bryn Celynnog Compregensive and 2 grandchildren. We want your child to enjoy their learning and the wide range of extra-curricular opportunities available whilst being challenged and supported to reach their full potential." More. Vernon was also a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Court of University College, Cardiff, and a Governor of the Rhondda College of Further Education. Not just one, but two levels of grammar school local grammars up and down both valleys, and for those passing their Eleven Plus with the highest marks of all, there was the Rhondda County Grammar School at Porth. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! [9] His eccentric behaviour was well known at the school, and although he was strict at times, his pupils described him as "fair". Via visits to France she introduced many children to French culture, and many still remember their trips to Marcel Prousts house in France with great fondness. It is not a new language nor is it an accent of English. I reckoned I'd have a flying start with Welsh. After leaving she worked in Montreal, Canada for a year before returning and settling back in South Wales. On the first Monday in September, 1956, fifty or so scholarship girls travelled from all over the Rhondda (on the red Rhondda Transport buses) to attend their first day at Rhondda County Grammar School for Girls (known as Porth County). I chose Cymraeg. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, As head of modern languages at Ellen Wilkinson school for girls in Ealing, west London, Christine Llewelyn had a reputation for getting the best out of her pupils. I reckoned Id have a flying start with Welsh. 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. Since retirement in 1984 he has written many books on Rhondda including Porth County: The School and Its Boys and William Evans: The Prince of Porth. He wrote the foreword and edited A Rhondda Boy by Ivor Howells and the foreword to books of Rhondda photographs by David Carpenter. He was also a mentor for many young people joining the corporation at that time. BREVITIES-11 I cJ LOG RIDE FATAL 1 i MORE , MEN REGAIN JOBS! The family of Owen Vernon Jones, former headmaster of Porth County Grammar School for Boys and later of Porth. [1], The origins of the school dates back to the creation of Porth Higher Elementary School in 1904. She said: He always put family first and was happily married to Falmai for sixty-five years. The BBC have sent Stephen Evans to North Korea, so they most likely know he went to my school. So for those of us who werent sporty scientists, it was a relief when the Boys school merged with the Girls Grammar in 1972, in preparation for going Comprehensive a year later. Porth County Grammar School for Girls Experience Directorate Communication and Engagement Manager dvla Mar 2012 - Present10 years 11 months Education Porth County Grammar School for Girls -. And all sorts of other performers dancers and swimmers, Treorchy rugby icon Adrian Owen, Huw Davies (who taught me English! [15], At the start of 2016, Rhondda Cynon Taff council released a statement saying that they will be spending 80million on making a 'super school' This would be for Porth county community school and Tonypandy community college. My sister, Christine Llewelyn, who has died aged 72, was a popular French teacher who inspired pupils with her enthusiasm both for the subject she taught and for life in general. At that time there were about 400 girls attending the girls-only school - strictly segregated from the boys at their school next door! I particularly miss the pink custard with the chocolate pudding and the cigaretteon the cross country "run". John On The Rhondda is based on John Geraints popular Rhondda Radio talks and podcasts. When I got to my O level year, the set poem for group recital in the Urdd Eisteddfod turned out to be Y Ffynhonnau. Jammy to be gifted an education which was the match and more, as weve seen! Porth County Community School is a secondary school located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Keep up to date with the latest stories with our WalesOnline newsletter. The local schools did not encourage the speaking of Welsh and he was forced to learn English. He trained at Porth County Grammar School for Boys where he remained for 41 years as a History and English teacher, head of the History department, becoming headmaster in 1961. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. On St. Davids Day, the girls would get dressed up in Welsh hats and shawls, the boys might wear a small cloth leek, wed have a short Concert and sing Calon Lan maybe, and then wed dash out of school for our half-day off and that would be that, as far as Welshness was concerned, for the rest of the year. 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Support our Nation today - please donate here. Admissions Tutors at Oxford and Cambridge werent minded to admit that any good thing could come out of a Welsh mining valley. [10][11] He retired from the school in 1984, and after retiring, he wrote a number of books about Porth, including one about his experiences as headmaster at 'Porth County'. Jones was born in Llwynypia. Many of them excelled, too, on the rugby pitch. From as late as 1915, school inspectors found students aged nineteen to still be attending the institution. Jammy to come under the sway of Santos and his staff and their ambitions. He was one of a new breed of broadcasting professionals who grasped the opportunity presented by still-rudimentary television in the 1960s, and made it into a medium by which the Welsh nation could become better known to its neighbours, and to itself. If not, be warned We waited for the terrible threat. But there were some places its pupils werent going. 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You need to sign in to tag. That will take a lot more than rebranding comprehensives and introductinggreater selection. He obtained his first BA honours degree in History at Cardiff University, to be followed by two other degrees, a BSc Econ and an M.Ed. A few went to university to become doctors or teachers, and some even to become scientists, like me. You might well have had a Porth County boy as a teacher or even as a headmaster - well-educated Welsh school boys went on to many such roles. I often talk about the Porth County opportunity for socially deprived pupils from working / lower working class homes and what it did for them. She is survived by her siblings, Myra and me, and by a large extended family of nieces and nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Let us know. Get this The Spokesman-Review page for free from Thursday, May 15, 1919 SMAN-REVIEW. You will need a reader's ticket to do this. . Once the first acceptance came, many more followed. The unfairness of it all. Her first teaching posts were in the private sector, at Wycombe Abbey school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and then at the City of London school for girls in central London. This was done by pupils to gain entrance into teacher training colleges and become teachers themselves. Are your grandchildren at Welsh School, perhaps? Once a year, a Trio of stiff classical musicians were summoned up from Cardiff to bring us the delights of Mozart and Beethoven. The PrimeMinister - a grammar-school girl who went on to lead a country - has opened the flood gates to a debate which touches on aspiration, class, division and hope. Madness! View the catalogue description for. The first three forms were housed in a wooden structure put up as a temporary measure during the Second World War. [5], In 1922 the school became officially recognised as a secondary school. I could have signed for the club when I was 17, but I was in Porth County Grammar School and I'd completed the first year of sixth form so I . 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. Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. However, she then moved to a state school Ellen Wilkinson school for girls in Ealing, west London and thereafter was committed to comprehensive education. This means thinking way beyond school and university to the economy as a whole. Delwyn Jones, former head of Gelli Primary School, read one of Vernons own poems called County Ties as part of the celebration of a remarkable life. The grammar school I entered was a tough rugby-playing place too. If you don't have an account please register. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Hugely interesting! These were both on Cemetery Road in Porth and amalgamated to become the comprehensive school on the old Porth County site. Porth Community School is located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. The golf club and the Rotary beckoned you as you smoothly travelled in you new Austin Tourer from your detached house in a pleasant village in the vale of Glamorgan. And loads of other top-class talents from the Rhondda: the actors Daniel Evans from Cwmparc and Judith Roberts from Ferndale; the wonderful folk singer from Treherbert, Siwsann George; and the legendary Penygraig rock guitarist, Tich Gwilym. Christine attended Porth County grammar school for girls before graduating from Swansea University with a BA in French. It means something like The Mountain Springs, I suppose. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all those, from near and far, who attended the funeral and for the overwhelming response we have received.. If any reader is aware of the whereabouts of any of them, please ask them to get in touch. I was lucky in Porth County: I had a succession of brilliant and committed Welsh teachers Berian Davies and Delyth John, Olwen Peters and Eleanor Aubrey. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. While in charge of the grammar school, Mr Jones dedicated his life to proving to Rhondda boys that academic success was not impossible, something which the sons of miners had previously dismissed as unattainable. [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. Their playing ground to a halt. The 1891 and 1901 census show William and Sarah living at Lake Street in Ferndale. 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. Enter your email address to receive instant notifications of new articles. In Porth, we were given the choice of two languages to learn - Welsh or French. 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. It will mean making a country which actually offers the economic underpinning for a prosperous future for all our children. THE PALOUSE . Porth County Porth County Grammar School for Boys Porth Grammar School. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. However, if the photos include boys and girls then it wouldn't have been Porth County. 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. This local democracy/ Senedd is not working.Read more , Rhondda in the early 1800s had a higher percentage of Welsh speakers than the most Welsh speaking parts of Gwynedd. Available for both RF and RM licensing. The poor musicians, clutching their instruments like shields, sat there with fixed grins, their vocation to bring music to the masses reduced to a penance. Vernons daughter Cheryl Hill paid tribute to her father on behalf of the family. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Porth County had always been about more than passing a rugby ball and passing exams. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. 04-06-08 Good Morning Porth. Pressure, pressure, pressure from parents to excel, from peers to be normal, from yourself just to be yourself, in spite of them all. Porth County. In November 2003, an investigation found that steroid use in South Wales was on the rise in teenagers. Her first teaching posts were in the private sector, at Wycombe Abbey. Porth is now described as a good school and the previous Porth Infants and Porth Juniors schools have all moved to the Porth Community School to form the new school. A DISTINGUISHED and much loved former headteacher has passed away at the age of 90.