Newport High School, Bettws Lane

Newport High School (Welsh: Ysgol Uwchradd Casnewydd) is a co-educational secondary school in the Bettws district of the city of Newport, South Wales, UK for pupils aged 11–18 years.

Admissions

There are about 1,100 pupils from a catchment area to the north western side of Newport. There are about 85 members of staff led by the headteacher, Mrs K Keane and deputy head Mr N Jenkins.

It is situated north of the M4, off the A4051.

History

The new school was built in front of the old Bettws Comprehensive School, built in 1970. The old school plot was sold to Barratt Homes for demolition and house building.

Academic performance

The school's most recent Estyn inspection took place in 2008. This report was in quick succession to an inspection during November 2007. The 2007 report noted the school's improvements, particularly in GCSE results, since the previous inspection in 2001, but recommended that significant further improvement was necessary.^[1] The 2008 report concluded that "significant improvement" had been made and the school was placed back into the standard inspection cycle.

Alumni

Newport High School for Boys

• Prof John Andrews CBE, Professor of Law from 1967-92 at University College, Aberystwyth, and Chief Executive from 1992-2000 of the Further Education Funding Council for Wales and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
• Keith Baxter (actor)
• Cyril Bence, Labour MP from 1951-70 for East Dunbartonshire
• Maj-Gen Bryan Bowen CB, Paymaster-in-Chief and Inspector of Army Pay Services from 1986-9, and Colonel Commandant from 1990-2 of the Royal Army Pay Corps
• Lt-Gen Sir Richard Bradshaw, Director General from 1977-81 of the Army Medical Services, and Commandant from 1973-5 of the RAMC Training Centre
• Trevor Brewer, rugby player
• David Burcher, rugby player
• Maxwell Caller CBE, Chairman since 2010 of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, and Chief Executive from 2000-4 of the London Borough of Hackney, and from 1989-2000 of the London Borough of Barnet
• Prof Graham Dixon-Lewis, FRS, Professor of Combustion Science from 1978-87 at the University of Leeds
• Gareth L Evans rugby player

John Evans (rugby player)

• Raymond Glendenning, sports commentator
• Prof Peter Gray, FRS, Professor of Physical Chemistry from 1962-88 at the University of Leeds, Master from 1988-96 of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and President from 1983-5 of the Faraday Society
• Sir Donald Harrison, Professor of Laryngology and Otology from 1963-90 at UCL Medical School, and expert on laryngeal cancer
• Michael Howell CMG OBE, High Commissioner from 1989-93 to Mauritius
• Dr Antony Hughes, physicist, and Chief Executive from 1993-4 of the Science and Engineering Research Council
• Dr Brian Lloyd CBE, Director from 1970-9 of Oxford Polytechnic, Chairman from 1979-82 of the Health Education Council, and Director from 1990-5 of the International Nutrition Foundation
• Walter Martin (rugby player)
• John Perrott, High Commissioner to the Gambia from 2000–2
• Prof Robert Rowthorn, Professor of Economics from 1991-2006 at the University of Cambridge
• Peter Saunders, Editor from 1986-90 of the Birmingham Post
• Professor John Oswald ("Joey" or "Josh") Thomas, Professor of Solid State Electrochemistry (1987-2008) and founder of The Angstrom Advanced Battery Centre(2000) at Uppsala University, Sweden. Founder of a Li-ion battery research company in Uppsala (LiFeSiZE AB)(2006)
• Brian Wall, Chief Naval Architect from 1985-90 at the MoD
• Rev Dr Glen Williams, General Secretary from 1968-87 of the Conference of European Churches

Newport High School for Girls

• Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
• Catherine Richards, Secretary and Registrar since 1987 of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

References

External links

• School homepage