Vernons daughter Cheryl Hill paid tribute to her father on behalf of the family. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. [10][11] He retired from the school in 1984, and after retiring, he wrote a number of books about Porth, including one about his experiences as headmaster at 'Porth County'. Your search results for obituary: 11 newspaper articles contained information about obituary filtered by: Date from: 1st Jan 1948 - Date to: 1st Jan 1948 Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. If any reader is aware of the whereabouts of any of them, please ask them to get in touch. John On The Rhondda is based on John Geraints popular Rhondda Radio talks and podcasts. On Sunday, October 8, a group of these 1956 first-formers met for lunch in the Heritage Park Hotel in Trehafod, followed by a trip to the school premises, now part of Porth Community School. I reckoned Id have a flying start with Welsh. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. becoming a Swan. You might well have had a Porth County boy as a teacher or even as a headmaster - well-educated Welsh school boys went on to many such roles. I mean all the schools in Wales are Welsh. The school opened in September 2018 following the closure of Porth County Community School, Porth Infants School, Porth Junior School and Llwyncelyn Infants School. And loads of other top-class talents from the Rhondda: the actors Daniel Evans from Cwmparc and Judith Roberts from Ferndale; the wonderful folk singer from Treherbert, Siwsann George; and the legendary Penygraig rock guitarist, Tich Gwilym. [9] Jones was headmaster from 1961 to 1984, and saw the amalgamation of the 'Porth County Girls' and 'Porth County Boys' grammar schools (along with the Secondary Modern Schools of Llwyncelyn, Trealaw and Ynyshir) into what is now known as 'Porth County Community School'. Chances are, if youre from the Rhondda, and depending on your age, you might have been with us, or your nieces and nephews were, or little Gareth or Sian from down the street, whore all grown up by now. It isn't just the autumnal back-to-school weather. There are 2200+ professionals named " Stephen Gray", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and . There were lots of jobs for grammar-school boys - and we were all boys - and no one worried about the future. We could gather them all together on top of Penrhys where the poem begins and get them to recite it there. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. But then people said that too about where I went, Porth County Grammar School, so who am I to talk? French was a proper modern language, a language with a future, the Common Market and all of that. Makeshift projectiles were launched. And its still one of my proudest achievements that we did it, we won First Prize in the Eisteddfod we beat Rhydfelen at their own language their own language there you go, another strange phrase. The family feel truly blessed to have had such a treasure of a man for 90 years and know his influence is a lasting legacy not only on their own lives but also on the lives of so many. This information will help us make improvements to the website. One of the greatest grammar schools in South Wales was the school my father and his brother went to Porth County. John On The Rhondda is broadcast at about 3.15pm as part of David Arthurs Wednesday Afternoon Show onRhondda Radio, All episodes of the John On The Rhondda podcast are availablehere, John Geraints debut in fiction, The Great Welsh Auntie Novel, is available from all good bookshops, or directly fromCambria Books. [11], After six to seven weeks of preparation, a demolition team reduced parts of the 'upper school' to a pile of rubble during the weekend of 31 May to 1 June 2003, with site clearance taking place within the subsequent weeks following the demolition.[12]. Jones was born in Llwynypia. And I mean tough, so we were not afraid of the secondary modern roughs. Bridgend Grammar Technical School ended up as Brynteg Comprehensive when it was merged with Heol Gam, the nearest secondary modern school. This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded. I have not seen any improvement to our way of life in North Wales since the early 70s. 04-06-08 Good Morning Porth. We don't just want asupply-side education that feeds poor kids into degrees. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Wrestling matches broke out. [15] Porth County Community School is part of 'Filmclub' along with schools in the Tonypandy and Treorchy areas, and it is implemented through the schools "E3 after-school projects". Eventually, thanks to them, and a summer spent working on a couple of farms in Carmarthenshire, I became fluent in Welsh well, fluent enough to make TV programmes in the language anyway. The local schools did not encourage the speaking of Welsh and he was forced to learn English. As I entered school for the first time, I wore the classic blazer bought in the one shop in town allowed to sell it, emblazoned with the motto from the Mabinogion in Welsh, "a fo ben bid bont" - "Let he would be the leader be the bridge". I bet someone you know is. The film posed the question: which was the greater outrage, the blast itself, or the flooding of Tryweryn valley? Want the latest Rhondda news sent straight to your inbox? The classmates you despised. But we were really a rare breed. Home; Lectures . All information provided to Nation.Cymru will be handled sensitively and within the boundaries of the Data Protection Act 2018. As Gillian Rees, she came up to Aberystwyth from Porth County Grammar School for Girls in 1960, to study English and American Literature. The UK can be stronger but we do not have proper leaders who er, lead !! After all, it was twenty years ago. After leaving she worked in Montreal, Canada for a year before returning and settling back in South Wales. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. He retired in 1997 to write poetry and spend more time with his family. Innate intelligence can be targetted and developed. One of the greatest grammar schools in South Wales was the school my father and his brother went to Porth County. View the catalogue description for. Bells. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Printed Multiview Postcard Trearddur Bay ( Wales ) at the best online prices at eBay! Professor of English Literature and Literary Studies at the University of Greenwich and, since 2019, President of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association. Being from Rhondda, I obviously played a lot of rugby at school level. "Poor so-and-so, and his dad is so clever, they must feel terrible". [9] His eccentric behaviour was well known at the school, and although he was strict at times, his pupils described him as "fair". Promoted to studio director in 1963, when I first met him in the news department, Richard worked on innovative news programmes including Wales Today and the first Welsh-language magazine programme, Heddiw. But that won't happen without a revolution in our entire approach to education and industry. Theresa May has also said Britain needs an industrial strategy and to be a world leader in trade. Outlaws bullies roamed the corridors and burst into classrooms. Emphasis was given to natural ventilation. She is survived by her siblings, Myra and me, and by a large extended family of nieces and nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Author: United States.Congress. He obtained his first BA honours degree in history at Cardiff University (to be followed by two other degrees, a BSc Econ and an MEd), and did his teachers training at 'Porth County Grammar School for Boys'. Porth County proved it! But I was a contrary so-and-so. Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, Wales. Born New Zealand Tongan parents, qualified England through residency having lived and been educated Wales . We had a grand Premiere just like Hollywood in that grand Rhondda auditorium, the Park and Dare, in Treorchy. So almost all of my class decided to try to 'parler franais'. My friend Richard Lewis, who has died aged 78, was a distinguished television producer and director, who worked for BBC Wales for more than 25 years. And when the Ynyswen children got to secondary school age, to continue their lessons in Welsh they had to be bussed out of the valley down to Rhydfelen, beyond Pontypridd. And when up on the big screen those hundreds of children, all of them Welsh speakers, stood in front of the statue on Penrhys, up above the Spring and the Holy Well, and they began to chant the poems most famous line, Maer ffynhonnaun fyw! (The mountain springs are alive!), it really did feel like we were all part of something vital and thriving; and that Welsh, too, was a language of the future right there in the Rhondda. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Porth Community School is a Community School located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. After senior house officer posts at Cardiff and Sully hospitals he joined the Hammersmith Hospital, where he was registrar under Ralph Shackman and Geoff Chisholm. Paul Kelso, Duncan Mackay and Matthew Taylor, "Headteacher dedicated life to his pupils", 'Porth County Community School' 2003 Demolition, "From gym to club to school: the shock spread of steroid abuse", "Actor Michael Sheen to visit local school", "Michael Sheen hits out at lack of drama funds", "Eleven schools could shut in 75m Rhondda education shake-up ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porth_County_Community_School&oldid=1096285706, Educational institutions established in 1973, Short description is different from Wikidata, Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 15 out of 212 secondary schools in Wales (as of 2014), This page was last edited on 3 July 2022, at 13:37. Porth County Grammar School 1st XV rugby team 1968/69. The people who benefitted most from the old educational system are those who got jobs that either no longer exist now or which today you need a degree to have any chance of getting into. Jammy to be gifted an education which was the match and more, as weve seen! And this fact is what nobody is mentioning now. They were nervous, worried, frightened - and clad in a school uniform which they were expected to 'grow into'. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Something went wrong, please try again later. History. When the schools closed during the pandemic, many Rhondda parents told me that they began to appreciate for the first time what these institutions do for children it turns out its far more than reading, writing and arithmetic. - and was attended by ex-pupils from all over the country with extra messages and letters to be read out after lunch from those who couldn't attend - including some now living abroad. The visit, by kind permission of the head, Steve Bowden, was hosted by Melanie Griffiths. In fact pay has decreased since then and we pay more for a lot lessfood, fuel, clotheseverything. So, despite all the agonies of school life, real and imagined, Ill always be grateful for my time in Porth County: that it was there, and that it was then. Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. The Pendyrus choir got involved. Richard avoided it by qualifying as a biology teacher, but found his creativity stifled. I chose Cymraeg. Porth Community School "We are committed to providing outstanding learning and teaching in a caring, safe, nurturing environment. the son of Daniel and Violet Thomas, and attended Tonypandy Grammar School. So for those of us who werent sporty scientists, it was a relief when the Boys school merged with the Girls Grammar in 1972, in preparation for going Comprehensive a year later. We could bring back every damn aspect of my grammar School, and some of it would be heaven to someone like me. He was given the affectionate nickname of Santos because of his black, curly hair and moustache. Who will be the employers in a globalised world, which increasingly relies on automation of blue-andwhite-collar roles. So there we all were, a thousand strong, one summers morning, processing across Penrhys, behind the Maerdy Miners Lodge Banner, and the Treorchy Comprehensive school band. I could have signed for the club when I was 17, but I was in Porth County Grammar School and I'd completed the first year of sixth form so I . Porth is now described as a good school and the previous Porth Infants and Porth Juniors schools have all moved to the Porth Community School to form the new school. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. Let us know. All episodes of the John On The Rhondda podcast are availablehere, John Geraints debut in fiction, The Great Welsh Auntie Novel, is available from all good bookshops, or directly fromCambria Books, You can find the rest of Johns writing on Nation.Cymru by following his link on thismap. When I got to my O level year, the set poem for group recital in the Urdd Eisteddfod turned out to be Y Ffynhonnau. Christine attended Porth County grammar school for girls before graduating from Swansea University with a BA in French. The grammar school I entered was a tough rugby-playing place too. Y Goedwig privacy policy, Need more context? This record is stored off site and will take. We need more of the kind of degree apprentice routes my own university offers to industry-sponsored young people who may not pass an 11-plusbut who, with the right training and support, can and will become the engineers and industry CEOs of the future. Sistema constructivo en tierra informes de la construccin vol. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. School. Our grandparents really valued education. Children of various ages attend the school, ranging from 316 years old.[1]. The local schools did not encourage the speaking of Welsh and he was forced to learn English. After 27 prolific years at the BBC, Richard joined the independent production company Opus to produce and direct award-winning dramas for S4C, including Y Palmant Aur (The Golden Pavement, 1996), reflecting the fortunes of Welsh dairies in London, the poignant family drama Nel (1990) and Y Weithred (The Act, 1995), a dramatic account of the 1963 bomb-blast on a transformer at the Tryweryn dam construction site, in north Wales. It sent off those children to careers around the UK and the world. This means thinking way beyond school and university to the economy as a whole. Born in the Rhondda, Sian attended Porth County Grammar school for girls. Catalogue description Glamorgan: Porth County Grammar School Ordering and viewing options This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. And yet who doesnt remember school with at least a sliver of fondness, if only for the friends we made, the time we had with them, for the fact that we were young then, and that was our time? [13] Steve Bowden (the school headteacher at the time) commented: "It is becoming more apparent now. [5], After the death of headmaster John Stradling Grant in 1914, Richard Chalke took over as head of the school. [17], Along with eleven other schools (three secondary and eight primary schools) in the surrounding areas, 'Porth County Community School' could face closure. Born in Ton Pentre, in the Rhondda Valley, the son of a Methodist minister and crowned Eisteddfod bard, the Rev L Haydn Lewis, and his wife, Lily (nee Lloyd), Richard was brought up in a Welsh-speaking, nonconformist household that imbued him with a lifelong commitment to Wales, its language and culture. Jammy to be born in the Rhondda where education was valued. Born in Llwynypia, the son of Daniel Thomas and Violet, with a younger brother Norman, Vernon attended Tonypandy Grammar School. You can order records in advance to be ready for you when you visit Kew. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Rachel Evans (the schools former English teacher and 'Filmclub' co-ordinator) said that "it ('Filmclub') gives the pupils a chance to discuss the films they watch". If you would like to donate to help keep Nation.Cymru running then you just need to click on the box below, it will open a pop up window that will allow you to pay using your credit / debit card or paypal. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Hugely interesting! The first three forms were housed in a wooden structure put up as a temporary measure during the Second World War. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. At some point in time the grammar school was split in two sections, one half being known as Porth County Girls and the other half being known as Porth County Boys. I am tracing my family tree and my grandfathers family are all from the Porth, Ferndale, Dowlais Area. Keep up to date with the latest stories with our WalesOnline newsletter. There followed a succession of compelling network dramas in close collaboration with the writer Paul Ferris, most notably Dylan: Life and Death of Poet (1982), Nye (1981), about Aneurin Bevan, the founding father of the NHS, and The Extremist (1984), on the attempted bombing of the Prince of Waless investiture in 1969. Free delivery for many products! GitHub export from English Wikipedia. Read tagging guidelines. Porth county school for girls, Rhondda Mid Glamorgan, Have you found an error with this catalogue description? Porth County Grammar School badge and report card images by John Geraint The Ranch But, like Santos, Porth was a school with something of a split personality. The careers fair in the school hall had jobs with such prospects on offer at the National Coal Board and in steel. The school was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of two leading grammar schools, Porth County Girls and Porth County Boys, along with the amalgamation of the Secondary Modern Schools of Llwyncelyn, Trealaw and Ynyshir.Porth is now described as a good school and the previous Porth Infants . Cowbridge was the posh place you aspired to - people who lived there worked in Cardiff. When Porth went Comprehensive, its Oxbridge tradition withered and died. There was less emphasis on the Arts. It produced phenomenal Physicists, champion Chemists, brilliant Biologists, maestros of Maths. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, BD - Records created or inherited by the Welsh Office and the Wales Office, Division within BD - Records of the Education divisions, BD 50 - Welsh Office and predecessors: HM Inspectorate of Schools: Unregistered Papers, About our [14] All of the students that met the actor were members of 'Filmclub' (a Film Agency of Wales and Skillset Screen Academy Wales initiative to give children access to thousands of "classic film titles"). His collaboration with writers continued with William Nicholson, on the Bafta-winning, original television film Shadowlands, in 1985. This superb school selected from the finest minds in the Rhondda, despite. History. A few went to university to become doctors or teachers, and some even to become scientists, like me. But Santos was certainly ahead of his time. But, in practice, something may have been lost in the transition: the ambition to give every child not just schooling, which focuses the mind, but education which broadens it. Jammy that our time happened to be the very time when the Boys began to meet the Girls in class as well outside of school. Vernon had also recently prepared for publication his own collection of poems entitled Rhondda Recalled in Rhyme, an account of what he describes as our often forgotten precious past.. We need more thanThe Pride of Miss Jean Brodie. Once a year, a Trio of stiff classical musicians were summoned up from Cardiff to bring us the delights of Mozart and Beethoven. This superb school selected from the finest minds in the Rhondda, despite the lack of affluence amongmany of its pupils. The secondary modern boys wore plain jumpers and would try to throw stones at you, but you knew you were the superior race. THE PALOUSE . The legends about him were legion. If not, be warned We waited for the terrible threat. Sian is passionate . Porth is now described as a super school and the previous Porth Infants . Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses. The school catered for 240 pupils under the headmaster ship of John Stradling Grant. Its architect was Rowland Lloyd Jones, who also designed most of the other Caernarvonshire schools. Read tagging guidelines. 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If you are ok with anonymous tracking please click ok, Support our Nation today - please donate here. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? On the first Monday in September, 1956, fifty or so scholarship girls travelled from all over the Rhondda (on the red Rhondda Transport buses) to attend their first day at Rhondda County Grammar School for Girls (known as Porth County). I was lucky in Porth County: I had a succession of brilliant and committed Welsh teachers Berian Davies and Delyth John, Olwen Peters and Eleanor Aubrey. During lessons, it was a crammer: the masters dictated, and the pupils filled their notebooks with the formulae and theorems that would secure outstanding grades from the WJEC. Enter your email address to receive instant notifications of new articles. Available for both RF and RM licensing. Nevertheless, he won a scholarship to Porth County grammar school and, although he was a talented artist, there loomed ahead another obstacle: the prospect of national service. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Porth County Community School, and is written by contributors. "[13], On 18 May 2009 acclaimed Welsh actor Michael Sheen spoke with members of the schools film club. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. He was said to have courted his wife by galloping on horseback up to her house on the steep slopes of Blaenclydach. Something went wrong, please try again later. If you don't have an account please register. This was done by pupils to gain entrance into teacher training colleges and become teachers themselves. Smells. It will mean making a country which actually offers the economic underpinning for a prosperous future for all our children. China Entrepreneur Voices Of Experience From 40 Business Pioneers Paperback . Then between 1946 and 1947, the name of the school was changed to Porth Secondary Grammar School. Visible Anyone can find this group. [15], At the start of 2016, Rhondda Cynon Taff council released a statement saying that they will be spending 80million on making a 'super school' This would be for Porth county community school and Tonypandy community college. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. The 1891 and 1901 census show William and Sarah living at Lake Street in Ferndale. If you don't have an account please register. All information provided to Nation.Cymru will be handled sensitively and within the boundaries of the Data Protection Act 2018. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 15 out of 212 secondary schools in Wales (as of 2014). The golf club and the Rotary beckoned you as you smoothly travelled in you new Austin Tourer from your detached house in a pleasant village in the vale of Glamorgan. Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Publisher: ISBN: Category : Broadband communication systems Languages : en Pages : 180 View Porth County Community School is a secondary school located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. At that time there were about 400 girls attending the girls-only school - strictly segregated from the boys at their school next door! We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, As head of modern languages at Ellen Wilkinson school for girls in Ealing, west London, Christine Llewelyn had a reputation for getting the best out of her pupils. So it was natural for us in Porth County to have a crack at it. The school was built to cater for pupils between the ages of ten and fifteen years-old, but there were many problems from the start. She wasn't worried about this, however, as she "just knew" his offer was not as sincere as it seemed.