Newport High School (Wales)

Newport High School
Newport High School
Address
	Bettws Lane; Newport, NP20 7YB; United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°36′25″N 3°00′54″W / 51.607°N 3.015°W
Information
Type	Comprehensive
Motto	Learning, Believing, Achieving
Established	November 2009 (new school)
Local authority	Newport City Council
Chair of Governors	James Clarke
Headteacher	Gill Lee
Staff	80+ teachers, 30+ support staff
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,200
Houses	Branwen Pryderi Taliesin Olwen
Website	http://www.newporthigh.co.uk

Newport High School (

UK

for pupils aged 11–18 years.

Admissions

There are about 1,100 pupils from a catchment area to the north western side of Newport.^{[citation needed]}

History

The school's origin can be dated back to the foundation in 1896 of separate Boys' and Girls'

Barratt Homes

for demolition and house building.

Academic performance

The school's most recent Estyn inspection took place in 2008. This report was in quick succession to an inspection during November 2007. The 2007 report noted the school's improvements, particularly in GCSE results, since the previous inspection in 2001, but recommended that significant further improvement was necessary.^[1] The 2008 report concluded that "significant improvement" had been made and the school was placed back into the standard inspection cycle.

Alumni

Newport High School for Boys

Keith Baxter (actor)
Cyril Bence, Labour MP from 1951 to 1970 for East Dunbartonshire
Bryan Bowen, Paymaster-in-Chief and Inspector of Army Pay Services from 1986 to 1989, and colonel commandant from 1990 to 1992 of the Royal Army Pay Corps
Richard Bradshaw, Director General from 1977 to 1981 of the Army Medical Services, and Commandant from 1973 to 1975 of the RAMC Training Centre
Trevor Brewer, rugby player
David Burcher, rugby player
Graham Dixon-Lewis, professor of combustion science from 1978 to 1987 at the University of Leeds
Gareth L Evans rugby union player
John Evans (rugby player)
Raymond Glendenning, sports commentator
Peter Gray, professor of physical chemistry from 1962 to 1988 at the University of Leeds, master from 1988 to 1996 of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and president from 1983 to 1985 of the Faraday Society
Donald Harrison, professor of laryngology and otology from 1963 to 1990 at UCL Medical School, and expert on laryngeal cancer
Walter Martin (rugby player)
Robert Rowthorn, professor of economics from 1991 to 2006 at the University of Cambridge

Newport High School for Girls

Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
Alison Bielski, poet and writer.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Brian William Medhurst (17 January 2008). "A Report on the Quality of Education in Bettws High School" (PDF). Estyn. Retrieved 5 February 2009.^{[dead link]}
^ "Alison Bielski: Poet whose experimental, structurally inventive and often startling work drew on Welsh myth and legend". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

External links

School homepage

[Estyn-1] Brian William Medhurst (17 January 2008). "A Report on the Quality of Education in Bettws High School" (PDF). Estyn. Retrieved 5 February 2009.^{[dead link]}

[Independent-2] "Alison Bielski: Poet whose experimental, structurally inventive and often startling work drew on Welsh myth and legend". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

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