:Gowerton Comprehensive School

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| motto = "Mi ddylwn, mi allaf, mi fynnaf"

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"I should, I can, I shall"

| established = 5 October 1896

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| type = Comprehensive

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| head = Kathleen Lawlor

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| address = Cecil Road

| city = Gowerton

| county = Swansea

| country = Wales

| postcode = SA4 3DL

| local_authority = Swansea

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| staff = 129

| enrolment = 1145 (2024)

| gender = Coeducational

| lower_age = 11

| upper_age = 19

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| colours = Maroon, white and black

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| free_1 = Gowerton Boys' Grammar School

Gowerton Girls' Grammar school

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Gowerton School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Gowerton, Swansea, Wales.

History

=Intermediate School=

The school opened on 5 October 1896 in Talbot Street as a co-educational Intermediate school under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889. Later it became Gowerton County School administered by the local (county) authority.

=Grammar school=

In May 1940, the Talbot Street school became a boys' grammar school when a girls' grammar school opened on Cecil Road.

=Comprehensive=

The school in its present form was created in 1973 from the merger of Gowerton Girls' Grammar School and Gowerton Boys' Grammar School. The Upper School was at Cecil Road and the Middle School was on Talbot Road. In 1987, the school was centralised on the Cecil Road (former girls' school) site.

Gowerton School today serves pupils from the north and west of the Gower peninsula and from the Swansea suburbs of Gowerton, Waunarlwydd and Dunvant from age 11 to 18, with a successful sixth form specialising in A level and Welsh Baccalaureate courses.

ESTYN inspections in 1994, 2000, 2005, 2011 and 2017 have been consistently good. The 2011 inspection report under the new Welsh inspection framework noted the school's outstanding ethos, inspiring leadership, good performance and excellent prospects, with high academic expectations and achievements, excellent care for pupil welfare and sector leading use of ICT in teaching.{{cite web|url=http://www.estyn.gov.uk/english/provider/6704063/ |title=Gowerton School |publisher=Estyn.gov.uk |date= |accessdate=2015-06-04}}

In July 2013, parents supported boys wearing skirts as they had not been permitted to wear school shorts or to roll their trousers up during particularly hot summer weather.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10179859/Swansea-schoolboys-keep-cool-in-skirts-after-shorts-ban.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716081050/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10179859/Swansea-schoolboys-keep-cool-in-skirts-after-shorts-ban.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 July 2013|title=Swansea schoolboys keep cool in skirts after shorts ban|work=Daily Telegraph|date=15 Jul 2013|accessdate=17 June 2015}}

Location

The school is located off Cecil Road in Gowerton. Opposite the school's entrance on Park Road is Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr, a Welsh speaking school that used to house the Boys' Grammar School.

Notable alumni and staff

=Staff=

Nia Griffith (born 1956), politician

=Pupils=

{{See also|Category:People educated at Gowerton Comprehensive School}}

Dan Biggar (born 1989), rugby player
Tracy Edwards (born 1962), sailor
Huw Irranca-Davies (born 1963), politician
Steve Lovell (born 1960), footballer
Arun Midha (born 1964), academic
David Weatherley (born 1972), rugby player
Andy Williams (born 1981), rugby player
Liam Williams (born 1991), rugby player

=Alumni of Gowerton Grammar School=

John Bowen (1876–1965), trade unionist and politician
Willie Davies (1916–2002), rugby player
Haydn Tanner (1917–2002), rugby player
Onllwyn Brace (1932—2013), rugby player
Alun Talfan Davies (1913–2000), judge and publisher
Ifor Davies (1910–1982), politician
Islwyn Davies (1909–1981), priest
Roy Evans (1931–2010), trade unionist
Gwyn Francis (1896–1987), rugby player
Norman Gale (1939–2005), rugby player
Walter Glynne (1890–1970), opera singer
Bryan Grenfell (born 1954), biologist
Clive Griffiths (born 1954), rugby player
Rowe Harding (1901–1991), rugby player
Edwina Hart (born 1957), politician
Frederick Higginson: (1913–2003), flying ace
Alun Hoddinott (1929–2008), composer
Leighton James (1953–2024), footballer
Karl Jenkins (born 1944), composer
Lewis Jones (1931–2004), rugby player
Peter Kokelaar, volcanologist
Ieuan Maddock (1917–1988), Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher
John Maddox (1925–2009), chemist, physicist, journalist and editor
Alan Morgan (1940–2011), bishop
Dennis O'Neill (born 1948), opera singer
John Pook (born 1942), poet
Gareth Roberts (born 1959), rugby player
Ceri Richards (1903–1971), artist
Don Shepherd (1927–2017), cricketer
Peter Stead (born 1943), writer, broadcaster and historian
John Sparkes (born 1954), comedian
Haydn Tanner (1917–2009), rugby player
Bleddyn Taylor (born 1959), rugby player
Gwyn Thomas (born 1957), footballer
Derrick Walters (1932–2001), priest
David Williams, mathematician
Byron Davies, Baron Davies of Gower (born 1952), politician

References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.gowerton.swansea.sch.uk}}}
[http://www.estyn.gov.uk/english/provider/6704063/ ESTYN Inspection report 2011]
[http://www.edubase.gov.uk/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=401770 Department for Education listing ]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
[http://www.gowertonian-society.co.uk/index.html Gowertonian Society website]

Category:Secondary schools in Swansea

Category:Educational institutions established in 1940

Category:1940 establishments in Wales