Cwmbran High School (), previously known as Fairwater High School, is a state-funded and non-selective

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in the Fairwater district of

Cwmbran Cwmbran ( ; , also in use as an alternative spelling in English) is a town in the county borough of Torfaen in South Wales. Lying within the Historic counties of Wales, historic boundaries of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire, Cwmbran was ...

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. The school is one of two

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s in Cwmbran, the other being

Croesyceiliog Croesyceiliog (; ) is a suburb and community of Cwmbran, Torfaen, Wales. Housing Croesyceiliog is primarily a residential district and contains a wide variety of housing from Victorian terraces and even older Welsh cottages to property built ...

. It educates children from the age of 11 up to 16. The school also houses the community

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. Construction began in 1969 and was to replace the secondary modern in Coed Eva, opened in 1960, that had to become a primary school in order to accommodate the growing younger population in Cwmbran New Town. In 2015, as part of Torfaen County's 21st Century Schools Programme, Llantarnam School, one of the original Cwmbran New Town schools, closed and was merged with Fairwater High to form a new school on the latter site. It opened in September of that year as Cwmbran High School. Cwmbran High School also has a Hearing Impaired Base and an ASD Base attached. The Governing body has now been replaced by an Interim Executive Board (IEB) and has recently introduced a Shadow Governing Body

Academics

Cwmbran High School is a large school that teaches a wide range of subjects. It is separated into five different blocks: *Upper school *Lower school *Science block *Design and technology block *Leisure centre

References

South Wales Argus article - Merged school will be called Cwmbran High School - 15/11/201

Web page from CHS - detailing the change of the Governing Body to Interim Executive Board (IEB.)

External links

* http://www.cwmbranhighschool.co.uk/ Secondary schools in Torfaen Cwmbran Educational institutions established in 1971 1971 establishments in Wales {{Wales-school-stub