Ysgol Clywedog

Ysgol Clywedog
Established 2003
Type Comprehensive
Head Teacher Dr David Kirby
Location Wrexham
LL13 7UB
Wales
Students Over 1000
Gender Both
Ages 11–16
Colours Red, Yellow and Navy Blue
Website clywedog.org

Ysgol Clywedog, is a comprehensive school which serves parts of the town of Wrexham in north-east Wales.

Ysgol Clywedog is located in the south-west suburbs of Wrexham. The school takes its name from the nearby River Clywedog.The school's name was chosen by the public in a competition which the governors of the school judged.

Reorganisation

In 2001, Wrexham County Borough Council decided to reorganise the secondary schools of Wrexham to solve the problem of surplus places and to update ageing infrastructure by merging the three town schools. The Groves High School,St Davids High School and Ysgol Bryn Offa were closed in July 2003. This was opposed by several staff, parents and pupils of all three schools, and a petition bearing more than 1000 names was made during 2002, but was largely ignored after the Welsh Assembly Government reinforced the local councils decision. In 2003 two new schools were established on the sites of St.Davids and Bryn Offa.In the same year work began on the new schools.The Groves site was used to house Rhosnesni High School in 2003/04 and Ysgol Clywedog in 2004/05

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Both Ysgol Clywedog and Rhosnesni High School were dubbed 'super schools' by the media and the local council and were designed to cater for 1200 pupils each.

In September 2008 Dr David Kirby succeeded Mrs Janette Smith as Head Teacher of Ysgol Clywedog.

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