Cardiff High School
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| Motto |
Tua'r Goleuni (Welsh: "Toward the Light") |
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| Established | 1895 (Creation of earliest of predecessor schools) |
| Type | Public (magnet) secondary |
| Headmaster | Stephen Jones |
| Location |
Llandennis Road Cyncoed Cardiff Wales |
| Students | 1650 (approx.) |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | Year 7–Year 13 (up to 18 years of age) |
| Website | www |
Cardiff High School (Welsh: Ysgol Uwchradd Caerdydd) is a comprehensive school in the Cyncoed area of Cardiff, Wales. Stephen Jones has been Headteacher since 2011. Rated as Excellent for current performance and Excellent for prospects for improvement by Estyn (2013) the school achieved its highest ever results in 2016 with a record breaking 92% of students achieving Level 2+ (5 GCSEs including English and Mathematics) and a 100% achieving at least 5 GCSEs.
Renowned for pioneering work in Learning and Teaching, Cardiff High School is a Professional Learning Hub regularly delivering Olevi's Outstanding Teacher Program and the NQT ASPIRE program. Since 2015, Cardiff High School has been a New Deal Pioneer School working with Welsh Government to deliver a new curriculum for Wales, following the publication of Donaldson's Successful Futures. Currently, the school is a Curriculum Hub for Mathematics and Science and a Lead Practitioner Hub for a range of non-core subjects. Cardiff High School places education at a possible cost to well-being though has in recent years expanded provision to focus on the delivery of pastoral care, support and guidance.
Although the school was established in its current form in 1970, its origins go back much further to the foundations of the three schools that merged to form the present school.
City of Cardiff High School for Girls was opened in January 1895 in the Parade, Cardiff, and City of Cardiff High School for Boys was opened in September 1898 in Newport Road, Cardiff. Both were created under the terms of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889 and therefore were originally called Cardiff Intermediate School for Girls and Cardiff Intermediate School for Boys respectively.
From 1905, secondary school education in Cardiff was largely provided through a system of Municipal Secondary Schools that were organised under the Education Act 1902. Although the Intermediate Schools were both rebranded as high schools in 1911 (thus the schools became Cardiff High School for Girls and Cardiff High School for Boys) they suffered in comparison with the municipal secondary schools because of their entrance examinations and later their fees, particularly after the municipal secondary schools abolished fees in 1924.
The working-class intake of the schools was limited because parents were deterred by the fees, only partly made up by scholarships and bursaries, and later by the regime and curriculum of the grammar school. When the United Kingdom Government passed the Education Act 1944, the Tripartite System was established, dividing secondary schools into three categories, the grammar school, the secondary technical school and the secondary modern school. The grammar school was deemed the place of education for the academically gifted (as determined by the 11-plus), and the high schools were selected to become the grammar schools (hence, the informal term Cardiff Grammar School applied to both).
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