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'''Ysgol David Hughes''' is the largest [[Secondary School]] in [[Anglesey]], [[Wales]]. It was founded in [[1603]], originally as a free [[Grammar School]] in [[Beaumaris]]. In [[1963]], with the local authority leading the way in introducing the comprehensive system, the school moved to [[Menai Bridge]] as a mixed [[comprehensive school]]. |
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| motto = Albam exorna (Adorn the white) |
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| type = [[Comprehensive school (England and Wales)|Comprehensive]] |
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| address = Ffordd Pentraeth |
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| city = [[Menai Bridge]] |
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| postcode = LL59 5SS |
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| students = 1118 (2023) |
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| gender = Coeducational |
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| founder = Sir David Hughes |
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| houses = Tudur, Seiriol, Llywelyn, Cybi |
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'''Ysgol David Hughes''' (meaning: ''David Hughes School'') is a [[Welsh medium education|bilingual]] [[secondary school]] on [[Anglesey]], [[Wales]]. The school building was completed and opened in [[Menai Bridge]] in 1963 by Anglesey County Council which, ten years earlier (in 1953), had become the first education authority in the UK to adopt non-selective comprehensive education.<ref>"Two Centuries of Anglesey Schools" by David A Pretty (A.A.S. 1971)</ref> |
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The school is divided into several blocks A-E and has recently built a new sports hall with state of the art fitness room with magnificent views of the [[Menai Strait]] and [[Snowdonia]]. The facility is open to the public in the evenings. There are roughly around 1250 pupils at the school. The school has a large sports reputation and regularly competes against other schools in the area. The school is located at the top end of [[Menai Bridge]] and has views of both the [[Menai Suspension Bridge]] and [[Britannia Bridge]]. The school has excellent facilities with every classroom having at least 3 [[Personal computer|PCs]], every teacher has a [[laptop]], most classrooms have brand new electronic white boards. There are laboratories, kitchen and workshops as well as PC rooms in the school. |
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The new school in [[Menai Bridge]] catered for all the secondary pupils in South East Anglesey who up to then had been educated four miles away in [[Beaumaris]], the former county town of Anglesey. |
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==History== |
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===Beaumaris Grammar School=== |
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The Welsh name "Ysgol David Hughes" (David Hughes's School), where "ysgol" is the Welsh word for "school", is derived from that of the founder of the original Beaumaris [[Grammar School]] established 350 years earlier in the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603. |
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Aside from the nomenclature "Ysgol David Hughes" (now located in Menai Bridge) there is a continuity from the 1603 school to the current iteration, which is described below. |
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===Founder of Beaumaris Grammar School=== |
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[[File:Ysgol David Hughes old school.JPG|thumb|right|The former Beaumaris Grammar School building, adjacent to [[Beaumaris Castle]]. The 1603 date can be seen above the door]] |
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Contained in the papers of [[Christopher Wase]] (now held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford), it states that David Hughes attended Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was appointed 'Tutor to a person of Qualitie who conferred upon him liberal Gratuities & settled upon him a Large Annuitie'. Hughes later lived in Norfolk and used his good fortune to build a 'considerable estate in money which afterwards hee left in his last Will & Testament for the Founding & Endowing of a Free School & Hospitall in & near Bowmaris [sic]'. Hughes procured a building in Beaumaris which was converted and opened as a Free Grammar School in 1603.<ref>"The Free Grammar School at Beaumaris" by Anthony D. Carr T.T.A.S.,1963</ref> |
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In a will, Hughes vested its administration in a body of feoffees (trustees) which he specified, should always include the Bishop of Bangor. He also laid down the terms on which "fellowships" (scholarships) should be established to enable deserving pupils to proceed directly from Beaumaris to the University of Oxford.<ref>"Elizabethan Wales" by G. Dyfnallt Owen (Cardiff,1964) and "Welsh Independent Grammar Schools to 1600" by L. Stanley Knight (Newtown 1926)</ref> In 1895 the management of the David Hughes charitable endowment (which had funded Beaumaris Grammar School) was transferred from the feoffees to Anglesey's new "County Governing Body" which now used the funds for the establishment of new county schools at Holyhead, Llangefni and Amlwch as well continuing to provide a proportion of funding for Beaumaris Grammar School.<ref>Anglesey County Governing Body Minutes 1894-1903</ref> |
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===20th-century=== |
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In 1953 the ancient Beaumaris Grammar School was combined with Beaumaris [[Secondary modern school|Secondary Modern]] School to become "Beaumaris Comprehensive School" following the Anglesey Council's decision to abolish the [[Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland|tripartite system]], becoming the first local education authority to do so. When plans were announced to move the entire school away from Beaumaris to Menai Bridge there was considerable opposition from the people of Beaumaris to what they considered to be the arbitrary closure of their old school and the end of the centuries-old tradition of secondary education in the town.<ref>"North Wales Chronicle" 1953-1963</ref> |
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==Facilities== |
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Ysgol David Hughes at Menai Bridge is divided into five blocks, A-D and New Block. It has a new sports hall with a fitness room with views of the [[Menai Strait]] and [[Snowdonia]]. The facility is open to the public in the evenings. There are approximately 1250 pupils at the school, from ages 11 to 18. The school is at the top end of [[Menai Bridge]] and has views of both the [[Menai Suspension Bridge]] and [[Britannia Bridge]]. The current headteacher is H Emyr Williams. |
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== Welsh language == |
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Welsh Government defines the school as a bilingual secondary school Category 2B, which means that, at least 80% of subjects (excluding Welsh and English) are taught through the medium of [[Welsh language|Welsh]] but are also taught through the medium of English.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mylocalschool.wales.gov.uk/school.htm?estab=6604028&iaith=eng|title=Ysgol David Hughes|website=mylocalschool.wales.gov.uk|access-date=2016-09-17}}</ref> Most pupils received their primary education through the medium of Welsh.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://ysgoldavidhughes.org/eng/policies.html|title=Ysgol David Hughes, Porthaethwy, Ynys Mon|website=ysgoldavidhughes.org|access-date=2016-09-17}}</ref> |
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According to the latest [[Estyn]] inspection report, approximately 90% of pupils could speak Welsh in 2012.<ref name=":0" /> In 2015, 68.7% of pupils aged 11–15 could speak Welsh fluently, with a further 31% being able to speak Welsh but not to a fluent standard. 40.4% of all pupils spoke Welsh fluently at home as of January 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/welsh_at_home_in_each_state_scho#incoming-1026913|title=Welsh at Home in each state school in 2017 - a Freedom of Information request to Welsh Government|date=2017-07-29|work=WhatDoTheyKnow|access-date=2017-08-30|language=en}}</ref> |
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==Notable former pupils== |
==Notable former pupils== |
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* [[Matthew Maynard]] - cricketer |
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{{see also|Category:People educated at Ysgol David Hughes}} |
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* [[Aled Jones]] - singer and presenter |
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* [[Tecwyn Roberts]], [[NASA]]’s first [[Flight Dynamics Officer]] and later Director of Networks at [[Goddard Space Flight Center]]. |
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* [[Nicky B]] - Famous Angelsey mafioso |
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* [[Matthew Maynard]], cricketer |
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* [[Aled Jones]], singer and presenter |
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* [[Louise Elliott]], journalist, and TV and radio presenter |
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* [[Dafydd Ieuan]], musician and member of the [[Super Furry Animals]] |
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* [[Cian Ciaran]], musician and member of the [[Super Furry Animals]] |
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* [[Arthur Emyr]], former Wales Rugby international |
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* [[Wayne Hennessey]], Wales Football international. |
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* [[Elin Fflur]], singer |
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* [[Rhun ap Iorwerth]], leader of [[Plaid Cymru]] and journalist. |
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* [[Stuart Andrew]], Conservative MP |
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* [[Nathan Gill]], ex-Leader of [[UKIP Wales]], ex-leader of [[Reform UK]] Wales. |
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* [[Taron Egerton]], actor known for his role in the British television series ''[[The Smoke (TV series)|The Smoke]]'' and the 2014 action comedy film ''[[Kingsman: The Secret Service]]''. |
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* [[Howel Harris Hughes]], theologian and Principal of the [[United Theological College, Aberystwyth|United Theological College]] in [[Aberystwyth]].<ref name="Dict">[https://biography.wales/article/s2-HUGH-HAR-1873 Howel Harris Hughes] on the ''[[Dictionary of Welsh Biography]]''</ref> |
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* [[Huw Garmon]], actor |
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* [[Sir Andrew Cahn]], former CE of UK Trade and Investment |
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* [[Stuart Roy]], former Welsh Rugby International and an orthopaedic surgeon. |
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* [[Cara Hope]], Wales rugby union international player. |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://ysgoldavidhughes.org School Website] |
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==Bibliography== |
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[[Category:Secondary schools in Wales]] |
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*''David Hughes M.A. and his Free Grammar School at Beaumaris'', 1864, reissued (ed. by Vaughan Bowen) 1933 |
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[[Category:Schools in Wales]] |
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*E. Madoc Jones, ‘The Free Grammar School of Beaumaris’ in ''Trans. Angl. Antiq. Soc.'', 1922; |
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[[Category:Educational institutions established in the 1600s]] |
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[[Category:Schools in Anglesey]] |
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Latest revision as of 22:02, 15 November 2024
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Ffordd Pentraeth , Isle of Anglesey , LL59 5SS | |
| Coordinates | 53°13′42″N 4°10′38″W / 53.2282°N 4.1771°W |
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| Type | Comprehensive |
| Motto | Albam exorna (Adorn the white) |
| Established | 1603 |
| Founder | Sir David Hughes |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Number of students | 1118 (2023) |
| Houses | Tudur, Seiriol, Llywelyn, Cybi |
| Website | ysgoldavidhughes.org |
Ysgol David Hughes (meaning: David Hughes School) is a bilingual secondary school on Anglesey, Wales. The school building was completed and opened in Menai Bridge in 1963 by Anglesey County Council which, ten years earlier (in 1953), had become the first education authority in the UK to adopt non-selective comprehensive education.[1]
The new school in Menai Bridge catered for all the secondary pupils in South East Anglesey who up to then had been educated four miles away in Beaumaris, the former county town of Anglesey.
History
[edit]Beaumaris Grammar School
[edit]The Welsh name "Ysgol David Hughes" (David Hughes's School), where "ysgol" is the Welsh word for "school", is derived from that of the founder of the original Beaumaris Grammar School established 350 years earlier in the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603. Aside from the nomenclature "Ysgol David Hughes" (now located in Menai Bridge) there is a continuity from the 1603 school to the current iteration, which is described below.
Founder of Beaumaris Grammar School
[edit]
Contained in the papers of Christopher Wase (now held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford), it states that David Hughes attended Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was appointed 'Tutor to a person of Qualitie who conferred upon him liberal Gratuities & settled upon him a Large Annuitie'. Hughes later lived in Norfolk and used his good fortune to build a 'considerable estate in money which afterwards hee left in his last Will & Testament for the Founding & Endowing of a Free School & Hospitall in & near Bowmaris [sic]'. Hughes procured a building in Beaumaris which was converted and opened as a Free Grammar School in 1603.[2]
In a will, Hughes vested its administration in a body of feoffees (trustees) which he specified, should always include the Bishop of Bangor. He also laid down the terms on which "fellowships" (scholarships) should be established to enable deserving pupils to proceed directly from Beaumaris to the University of Oxford.[3] In 1895 the management of the David Hughes charitable endowment (which had funded Beaumaris Grammar School) was transferred from the feoffees to Anglesey's new "County Governing Body" which now used the funds for the establishment of new county schools at Holyhead, Llangefni and Amlwch as well continuing to provide a proportion of funding for Beaumaris Grammar School.[4]
20th-century
[edit]In 1953 the ancient Beaumaris Grammar School was combined with Beaumaris Secondary Modern School to become "Beaumaris Comprehensive School" following the Anglesey Council's decision to abolish the tripartite system, becoming the first local education authority to do so. When plans were announced to move the entire school away from Beaumaris to Menai Bridge there was considerable opposition from the people of Beaumaris to what they considered to be the arbitrary closure of their old school and the end of the centuries-old tradition of secondary education in the town.[5]
Facilities
[edit]Ysgol David Hughes at Menai Bridge is divided into five blocks, A-D and New Block. It has a new sports hall with a fitness room with views of the Menai Strait and Snowdonia. The facility is open to the public in the evenings. There are approximately 1250 pupils at the school, from ages 11 to 18. The school is at the top end of Menai Bridge and has views of both the Menai Suspension Bridge and Britannia Bridge. The current headteacher is H Emyr Williams.
Welsh language
[edit]Welsh Government defines the school as a bilingual secondary school Category 2B, which means that, at least 80% of subjects (excluding Welsh and English) are taught through the medium of Welsh but are also taught through the medium of English.[6] Most pupils received their primary education through the medium of Welsh.[7]
According to the latest Estyn inspection report, approximately 90% of pupils could speak Welsh in 2012.[7] In 2015, 68.7% of pupils aged 11–15 could speak Welsh fluently, with a further 31% being able to speak Welsh but not to a fluent standard. 40.4% of all pupils spoke Welsh fluently at home as of January 2017.[8]
Notable former pupils
[edit] | This section needs additional citations for verification. (May 2017) |
- Tecwyn Roberts, NASA’s first Flight Dynamics Officer and later Director of Networks at Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Matthew Maynard, cricketer
- Aled Jones, singer and presenter
- Louise Elliott, journalist, and TV and radio presenter
- Dafydd Ieuan, musician and member of the Super Furry Animals
- Cian Ciaran, musician and member of the Super Furry Animals
- Arthur Emyr, former Wales Rugby international
- Wayne Hennessey, Wales Football international.
- Elin Fflur, singer
- Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru and journalist.
- Stuart Andrew, Conservative MP
- Nathan Gill, ex-Leader of UKIP Wales, ex-leader of Reform UK Wales.
- Taron Egerton, actor known for his role in the British television series The Smoke and the 2014 action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service.
- Howel Harris Hughes, theologian and Principal of the United Theological College in Aberystwyth.[9]
- Huw Garmon, actor
- Sir Andrew Cahn, former CE of UK Trade and Investment
- Stuart Roy, former Welsh Rugby International and an orthopaedic surgeon.
- Cara Hope, Wales rugby union international player.
References
[edit]- ^ "Two Centuries of Anglesey Schools" by David A Pretty (A.A.S. 1971)
- ^ "The Free Grammar School at Beaumaris" by Anthony D. Carr T.T.A.S.,1963
- ^ "Elizabethan Wales" by G. Dyfnallt Owen (Cardiff,1964) and "Welsh Independent Grammar Schools to 1600" by L. Stanley Knight (Newtown 1926)
- ^ Anglesey County Governing Body Minutes 1894-1903
- ^ "North Wales Chronicle" 1953-1963
- ^ "Ysgol David Hughes". mylocalschool.wales.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Ysgol David Hughes, Porthaethwy, Ynys Mon". ysgoldavidhughes.org. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ "Welsh at Home in each state school in 2017 - a Freedom of Information request to Welsh Government". WhatDoTheyKnow. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ Howel Harris Hughes on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography
External links
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- David Hughes M.A. and his Free Grammar School at Beaumaris, 1864, reissued (ed. by Vaughan Bowen) 1933
- E. Madoc Jones, ‘The Free Grammar School of Beaumaris’ in Trans. Angl. Antiq. Soc., 1922;
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