Ysgol Brynhyfryd
As of 2023, the school has a total of 1053 pupils on roll. 189 of those are in the Sixth Form.
Brynhyfryd is a naturally bilingual school which has; in years 7 and 8; four Welsh forms: C/Y/H/L and five English forms: B/R/F/D/S. The school is considered as a successful school with 68% of pupils leaving with at least five A*-C GCSE grades due to the Estyn Inspection Report in 2015.
Ysgol Brynhyfryd was founded in 1898 under the name of "Ruthin County School for Girls". It became co-educational, as "Brynhyfryd School", in 1938, and formally became a comprehensive school, using the Welsh form of the name in the early 1970s.
As of 2023, 43.5% of pupils come from Welsh-speaking homes.
Departments and main staff
- Head: Mr Trefor Jones
- Deputy Headteachers: Mrs Juliet Peters
- Assistant Headteachers: Mrs Gwawr Jones & Mrs Ceri Ranson
Like most secondary schools in Wales, for KS3 and KS4 Ysgol Brynhyfryd offers a total of 13 subjects including Welsh (first and second language), English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, Information Communication Technology, History, Geography, RE, French, Art, Music, Modern Languages and PE.
It also features a theatre and arts complex, Theatre John Ambrose, named after a headmaster of the school in the 1980s and 1990s. This was opened by the actor Rhys Ifans, a former pupil of Ysgol Pentrecelyn and Ysgol Maes Garmon in Mold, but brought up in Ruthin.
Controversy
A former Biology teacher Matthew Jones had been reported to the school for years for inappropriate behaviour with little to no action being taken for years.
A footballer Corey Christopher Hycz often brought in to assist in PE. set up a fake Instagram account and blackmailed a schoolboy for indecent images while pretending to be a young girl. was later arrested and jailed for 27 months.
A Former Lab Technician at Brynhyfryd Michael Nicholls Married to a Physics teacher at the school was Jailed for 47 months after taking up skirt pictures and secretly recording and stalking a woman.
Notable pupils
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- Eric Jones – Welsh mountaineer
- Tom Pryce – Welsh racing driver (1949–1977)
- Neil Taylor – Welsh footballer (born 1989)
- Joe Woolford – Welsh singer
References
- ^ "Ysgol Brynhyfryd | Estyn". www.estyn.gov.wales. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ "Ysgol Brynhyfryd | Estyn". www.estyn.gov.wales. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ "Former Ysgol Brynhyfryd teacher struck off teaching register". Denbighshire Free Press.
- ^ Hughes, Gareth (16 November 2016). "Teenager 'saw Ruthin teacher having oral sex with girl in school storeroom'". North Wales Live.
- ^ Morris, Lydia (5 May 2020). "Footballer blackmailed boy for indecent images while posing as girl on Instagram". North Wales Live.
- ^ Powell, David (17 March 2021). "Obsessed technician secretly filmed and took 'upskirting' pictures of colleague". North Wales Live.