Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr is a
Welsh-medium comprehensive secondary school in
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
. It opened in September 1998 as the second school of its kind in Cardiff. Its buildings had formerly belonged to Waterhall Secondary Modern School and more recently formed
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf (''Taff Bank Welsh Language Comprehensive School'') is a Welsh-medium coeducational secondary school in Llandaff North, a district in the north of Cardiff, Wales; it is the largest of its kind in the country. Of the ...
's Lower School. The current headteacher is John Hayes.
Catchment area and demography
The school serves a wide area of western Cardiff that includes
Culverhouse Cross
Culverhouse Cross ( cy, Croes Cwrlwys) is a district straddling the boundary between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, in the community of Wenvoe.
The district is centred on a major traffic roundabout that links West Cardiff to the M4 mo ...
,
Ely,
Caerau,
Grangetown,
Butetown
Butetown (or ''The Docks'', cy, Tre-biwt) is a district and community in the south of the city of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early 19th century by the 2nd Marquess of Bute, for whose t ...
,
Riverside (including
Pontcanna),
Canton,
Fairwater (including
Pentrebane
Pentrebane ( cy, Pentre-Baen) is a district in the west of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is part of the Fairwater community.
Description
Pentrebane was built in the 1960s on agricultural land to the northwest of Fairwater. The newer estate si ...
),
Llandaff
Llandaff (; cy, Llandaf ; from 'church' and ''River Taff, Taf'') is a district, Community (Wales), community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It was incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of ...
,
Radyr,
Creigiau
Creigiau is a dormitory settlement in the north-west of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The village currently has about 1,500 houses and a population of approximately 5,000 people. The Cardiff electoral ward is called Creigiau/St. Fagans. The ...
,
Pentyrch
Pentyrch ( cy, Pen-tyrch) is a village and community located on the western outskirts of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. The village gives its name to a Cardiff local authority electoral ward, Pentyrch, which covers the village and immediat ...
, and
Gwaelod-y-Garth
Gwaelod-y-garth ( Welsh for ''Foot of the Garth'') is a village in the community of Pentyrch, Cardiff in Wales.
Location
Gwaelod-y-garth is located in Taff Valley at the foot of Garth Hill, north of central Cardiff and south of Pontypridd ...
.
In 2010 it was noted that 75% of the pupils come from homes where English is the predominant language, with 22% coming from homes whose main language was Welsh. In 2013 9% of the pupils were recorded as having an ethnic background other than 'White-British'.
Notable former pupils
*
Ben Cabango
Benjamin George Cabango (born 30 May 2000) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Swansea City and the Wales national team.
Early life
Cabango was born in Cardiff to an Angolan father and a Welsh mother. He has ...
Professional footballer for
Swansea City A.F.C and
Wales
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international
*
Catrin Stewart Welsh actress
Teaching awards
Two of the school's teachers have been awarded Teaching Awards. Mrs Meinir Rees became the Wales SEN Teacher of the Year in 2005, and later that year became the UK SEN Teacher of the Year. The following year, Mr Geraint Rees became the Wales Secondary Headteacher of the Year and was runner up for the UK version of the Award.
Teaching Awards Winner 2006 - Wales
(accessed 14 February 2014).
References
External links
*http://www.estyn.gov.uk/inspection_reports/Plasmawr.pdf 2003 inspection (pdf file)
*http://www.estyn.gov.uk/download/publication/149522.1/inspection-reportysgol-gyfun-gymraeg-plasmawreng2010/ 2009 inspection (pdf file)
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Secondary schools in Cardiff
Educational institutions established in 1998
Welsh-language schools
1998 establishments in Wales