| Rydal Penrhos School | |
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| Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales | |
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| Type | Independent, day and boarding |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Methodist |
| Established | 1885 |
| Principal | Mr. Patrick Lee-Browne |
| Chaplain | Rev. Nick Sissons |
| Faculty | 57 full-time 10 part-time |
| Enrollment | 411 total 241 day 145 full boarding 25 weekly boarding |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6:1 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Black and amber |
| Athletics | 22 sports |
| Website | http://www.rydalpenrhos.com/ |
Rydal Penrhos is a private co-educational boarding school in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. It is located on multiple sites around the town including a site in the neighbouring village of Rhos-on-Sea where it keeps its watersports equipment for easy access to the beach.
The school, as it exists today, started life as three separate institutions:
Rydal School and Penrhos College became known as Rydal Penrhos School following their merger in 1999. Initially they were run as three separate "divisions": "preparatory", "girls" and "co-educational", reflecting the three formerly separate incarnations. The Penrhos College campus was eventually closed down and sold for re-development, and its pupils moved to the main Rydal campus, with the divisions being amalgamated into a single entity. As with any major institutional reform, the merger and integration project was not without its controversy, not least over the sale of the former Penrhos site and the restructuring of the staff. The associated prep school is known as "Lyndon Preparatory School" following a merger with another local private primary school in 2003. The former Lyndon school campus was disposed of and staff and students were relocated to the larger existing Rydal Preparatory School campus.
Rydal Penrhos has a strong tradition in sports and the arts. The school's 1st teams in both hockey and rugby have, in recent years, been a strong selling point for the school, which thrives on their successes. The 1st XI hockey team, along with the U-16 team, have been exceptionally successful in the Welsh Nationals, claiming several titles in the past 5 years. In 2007, the U-16 boys team won the North Wales Final at hockey, only to go on and lose in the final on the Nationals.
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In 2004, the school began to offer the International Baccalaureate programme of study in its Sixth form years, as a parallel alternative to the A-level programme that was already being offered. This led to an increase in the number of pupils attending the school from overseas countries such as Ukraine, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Russia and the Czech Republic.
The average score of the first year group taking IB was 33, the second year 34 and the third year 31.
The pavilion at New Field, Rydal Penrhos |
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| Location | Colwyn Bay, Wales |
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| Wales (1929) Denbighshire (1934) |
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| As of 10 August 2009 Source: CricketArchive |
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The school's cricket pitch was used as the venue for a first-class match between Wales and the touring South Africans in 1929. The three-day match, played on 10–12 June 1929, resulted in a 10-run victory for the South Africans and saw Bob Catterall of South Africa (117) and William Bates (102) record centuries.