Rhosnesni High School

Rhosnesni High School, also known as Ysgol Rhosnesni High School, is a high school created in 2003 by Wrexham County Borough council as a part of their controversial "super schools" plan.

History

Three secondary schools were merged into two schools: Rhosnesni (formerly known as St. David's), and Ysgol Clywedog (formerly known as Bryn Offa). The third school, Groves, was used as a temporary site for Rhosnesni, Ysgol Clywedog and another local school, St Joseph's Catholic High School, while improvements were made to their permanent sites. The Groves was then shut down entirely in 2006 and is now empty, but is rumoured to become part of Yale College's campus Fact|date=April 2007.

Location

Rhosnesni School is in Wrexham, north Wales on Rhosnesni Lane. It opened in 2003 at a temporary site on Penymaes Avenue and later moved to its current site in 2004. The school buildings were rebuilt and opened in September 2004, and new buildings were erected with the same style as similar buildings at Ysgol Clywedog. A ceremony giving the school an official opening was conducted in April 2005. As with Ysgol Clywedog, the school is completely new, and students from the old schools were asked to create the logo and uniform. The logo contains the letters YRHS, which is an abbreviation for Ysgol Rhosnesi High School. The students also created a new motto, they came up with "Respect, Honesty, Success" which shares the school's initials. http://www.rhosnesni-high.wrexham.sch.uk/

uper Schools Plan

The Welsh Assembly ratified the "super schools" plan in 2002, but the new schools were controversial. Nearby Yale College, which was to offset the some costs of the project by buying the Groves school and selling land, dropped out. Additionally, some parents opposed displacing students temporarily to Groves while modernizing the "super schools." In April 2002, a petition with over 1000 signatures was delivered to the Wrexham County Council in protest of the plan.

By late 2003 it became apparent that the original £12 million budget for upgrades would fall short by about £10 million because inflation was not accounted for in estimates. Nonetheless, the county council approved overspends allowing the schools to be upgraded as planned. Both of the new schools serve around 2500 pupils age 11 through to 16.

External links

* [http://www.rhosnesni-high.wrexham.sch.uk/ Official site of school]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3301917.stm BBC News: 'Super schools' (overspend) funding approved]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2386087.stm BBC News: 'Super' schools plan given green light]