No matter how you read yesterday’s Denbighshire council’s education report concerning declining GCSE results, the poorer performance of boys, and so on, we in Rhuthun should not lose sight of the fact that we are blessed with one of the country’s best high schools (and one to which parents seem to be clambering to send their children) plus a collection of usually excellent primary feeders, too. It says much about our area.
It's 20 years in December since league tables were first published. The then Clwyd director of education said that Ysgol Brynhyfryd was "coming out well ahead of of Denbigh High and Emrys ap Iwan and comparing favourably with Glan Clwyd". Of these, Emrys ap Iwan was doing "particualrly badly" in core subjects.
Engish
Brynhyfryd = 47%
Denbigh High = 30%
Glan Clwyd = 30%
Emrys ap Iwan = 22%
Maths
Brynhyfryd = 37%
Denbigh High = 25%
Glan Clwyd = 44%
Emrys ap Iwan = 21%
Only Glan Clwyd was measured in Welsh (32%).
Many local authority officers at the time felt the publ,ication of league tables would result in a "drain" from poorer performers. And this was to be the case: pupils within the Denbigh High catchment are pulled three wasy, to Glan Clwyd, to St Brigid's (then the Brididene Convent School, not in the state sector) and Brynhyfryd.
It's 20 years in December since league tables were first published. The then Clwyd director of education said that Ysgol Brynhyfryd was "coming out well ahead of of Denbigh High and Emrys ap Iwan and comparing favourably with Glan Clwyd". Of these, Emrys ap Iwan was doing "particualrly badly" in core subjects.
Engish
Brynhyfryd = 47%
Denbigh High = 30%
Glan Clwyd = 30%
Emrys ap Iwan = 22%
Maths
Brynhyfryd = 37%
Denbigh High = 25%
Glan Clwyd = 44%
Emrys ap Iwan = 21%
Only Glan Clwyd was measured in Welsh (32%).
Many local authority officers at the time felt the publ,ication of league tables would result in a "drain" from poorer performers. And this was to be the case: pupils within the Denbigh High catchment are pulled three wasy, to Glan Clwyd, to St Brigid's (then the Brididene Convent School, not in the state sector) and Brynhyfryd.