St. Cenydd School is located in

Caerphilly Caerphilly (, ; , ) is a town and community (Wales), community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley and separated from the Cardiff suburbs of Lisvane and Rhiwbina by Caerphilly Mountain. It is north of Cardiff an ...

, South

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. Situated in extensive grounds, with panoramic views of the semi-rural Caerphilly basin, St. Cenydd is a popular, mixed, 11-18 community school of over 1,100 pupils.

Sporting honours

St Cenydd Year 11 Rugby squad won the Caerphilly county rugby cup in the 2014–2015 season by defeating local rivals St Martin's comprehensive. It was a hotly contested match with St Cenydd holding onto their lead to win the cup. George Gasson a former pupil at St Cenydd, is now playing rugby at a high level. He has even been selected in the U-18s and U-20s squad for wales. He currently plays for Newport Gwent Dragons. Thomas Payne completed a 5 km run in under 30 minutes on his park run debut.

Facilities

St. Cenydd is the designated centre for hearing impaired, physically disabled, and speech and language pupils within the area, with facilities for both special-needs and able-bodied students.

Notable teachers & students

Steve Fenwick Steven Paul Fenwick (born 23 July 1951) is a Welsh former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Bridgend RFC, as ...

, a former Welsh

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player, was a teacher here in the 1970s and 80s *

Vikki Howells Vikki Howells is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician serving as Minister for Further and Higher Education since September 2024. Since May 2016, she has also been the Member of the Senedd for Cynon Valley. Howells is a former teacher. Ba ...

, a

Member of the Senedd A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituency, Senedd constituencies, a ...

, was a history teacher here prior to her election in 2016 * Martin Williams was a history teacher who won th
Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School
award for the Welsh region in 2002 * Bobbie Allen, author of 'Hollie's Dream of Consciousness' and 'Waiting for Something Better to Happen', taught at St Cenydd 2001 - 2011. * George Gasson, born 1997, rugby union player for

Dragons RFC Dragons RFC () are one of the four professional rugby union regional teams in Wales. They play in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup/ European Rugby Challenge Cup. They play their home games at Rodney Parade, ...

*Harri Ford, born 2005, rugby union player for

External links

St. Cenydd School WebsiteAnother St. Cenydd School Website
Secondary schools in Caerphilly County Borough {{Wales-school-stub