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Bassaleg School () is a comprehensive secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 18 years, situated in the suburb of Bassaleg on the western side of the city of Newport,
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, United Kingdom. The present buildings of the school range in age from the early 20th century to the present day. The buildings form a natural campus, with playing fields, lawns and gardens. It has over 1,700 pupils. Because of expanding residential development in the area, consultations took place in 2021 to 2022 to increase capacity to over 2,000 pupils by 2023. Plans were approved by
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in February 2022 with work on the project beginning in March 2022, following a £30,000,000 investment.


History

There has been a school around the current site since 1880, when Rowland Morgan (a distant relative of the Morgans of Tredegar) endowed £20 for its creation. In the early twentieth-century, Bassaleg Controlled Voluntary School was built in its place to serve the families of the workers of Lord Tredegar's estate. "Forge Building", as it is commonly referred, was opened in Autumn 1935, by which time the school was known as Bassaleg Secondary School. The then Lord Tredegar frequented the new school, hosting prize-giving, and for many years to deliver gifts to the children at Christmastime. During
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, five teachers and around 250 past students were serving in the forces, while forty older male students formed the "School Harvest Camp"; sleeping in the recently built gymnasium and farming the surrounding land for six weeks. By 1948, the school had become known as Bassaleg Grammar School. In 1958, Graig County Secondary Modern was established on the same site, with new buildings developed by A. Arthur & Son LTD. as a result. The Secondary Modern's main building was erected adjacent to Griffin Lane, thus dubbed "Griffin Building". Following the 1976 abolition of grammar schools in England and Wales, the two schools on the site merged into Bassaleg Comprehensive School, as it is known today.


Notable staff and former pupils


Pupils

* Stuart Barnes, '' Times'' journalist and former
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and British Lions rugby player * Jon Callard, former
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rugby player * Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, Chief Fire Officer of the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, homeless whilst studying at the school * Jamie Corsi, rugby player * John Davies, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales and Archbishop of Wales * David Davies, former
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* Ron Davies, Former AM and MP and
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* Rio Dyer, rugby player for
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* Anneliese Heard, triathlete * Liz Johnson, Paralympic gold medallist *
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, former
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and British Lions rugby player *
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, writer and journalist, author of '' The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' * Alix Popham, former Welsh national rugby player * Malcolm Thomas a former Welsh and British Lions rugby player who played club rugby for Newport and won 27 caps for Wales during the 1950s * Aaron Wainwright, current Welsh national rugby player * Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader
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Staff

* Ryan Doble, former under-21 international
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for Wales *
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, former International rugby union player for Wales * Lauren Parfitt, Welsh cricketer and current captain for Wales


Gallery

In 2023, the school renamed its buildings in Welsh; each reflecting one of the school's values. The new names include Caredig, Parchus, Dewr, Balch, Uniondeb, and Gwydn, meaning Kindness, Respect, Bravery, Pride, Integrity, and Resilience respectively.


Adeilad Balch

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. File:Uniondeb interior3, Bassaleg School.jpg, Plaque commemorating the opening of the building in 1997.


Adeliad Dewr


Adeilad Caredig

Secondary schools in Newport, Wales People educated at Bassaleg School