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Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in the Cynon Valley in the village of Penywaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, to the northwest of the town of Aberdare. The school was established on 1 September 1995 to deal with the increasing numbers of students attending five local Welsh-medium primary schools, who previously had to ...
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Penywaun Primary School, near Coed Glas, educates approximately 252 pupils, aged 3 to 11. [4] Main secondary education schools are: Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun a Welsh Medium comprehensive school, serving the village since 1995. Aberdare Community School; St. John's The Baptist High School Of Aberdare.
Ysgol Gyfun Cymer Rhondda was established in 1988 in response to the growing demand for Welsh-medium education in the area. It remains the only Welsh-medium secondary School in the Rhondda, with around 800 students. Pupils who attend the school come from all over the Rhondda, from five Welsh primary schools: Llyn-Y-Forwyn ; Ynyswen
It was the first Welsh language comprehensive school in the south of Wales. [1] [2] [3] Attention was brought upon the school in 2009 with the revival of a campaign to retain the name of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, for reasons of historical significance, in protest over the local council's decision to rename the school Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg. [4]
As of 2019, there was no Welsh-medium secondary school in the borough. Many Welsh-speaking pupils attend Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun near Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf . [ 1 ]
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf was founded in 1978, initially sharing premises with the English-language Glantaf High School, before expanding to occupy the entire building. Its first headmaster was J E Malcolm Thomas, who was succeeded upon his retirement in 1995 by Huw S Thomas, and then by headmistress Rhiannon Lloyd from Rhydywaun School.
Welsh historian David Watkin Jones (bardic name 'Dafydd Morganwg') [7] documented in his 1874 Hanes Morganwg (History of Glamorgan) [8] that, in 1666, one "Mayber" built a small charcoal-fired furnace near Llygad Cynon, the source of the River Cynon, in an uninhabited place in the parish of Penderyn (ym mhlwyf Penderyn).