'No more pencils, No more books, No more teacher's dirty looks...' (Alice Cooper) Perhaps you shouldn't judge a school text book by its cover but I reckon that Brynhyfryd's retired-at-Easter headteacher Geraint Parry might well be …
The new convenience store and off licence on Well Street opened this morning at 6 a.m. It'll close this evening at 12 midnight, as it will do each day, including Sundays and bank holidays. This means that few of us will have to suffer those shutte…
As usual, the paperboy I sometimes see when I'm out walks past this morning with his nose in his phone. He never looks up from it. I'm surprised that he delivers anything to the right address. Or, perhaps he's using Google Maps to help him…
This from Facebook yesterday. There'll be a school uniform exchange table at Sunday's market. Looks from the picture that Ysgol Brynhyfryd is dumping the dark green in favour of deep brown. And the tie. Or could it just be a stock image? Surel…
Or, to paraphrase Keith Wolstenholme, *we* think it's all over. But it ain't. Covid 19 is now as rampant as it has ever been. In fact, it's more so. It's thought to impact one up to in 12 in Wales and one in 13 in the UK. In other wor…
This post is about basic literacy. It passes no judgement other than on the product of a modern education and its lack of understanding of basic grammar. 'Your' is the possessive case of 'you' and an attributive adjective. That's v…
The thread of posts of Facebook about whether or not children should wear masks while in lessons clearly seems to have missed the irony that some of the responses are themselves juvenile and worthy only of the school playground. How it all started Mas…
Here's a chain of events that shows just how problematic the new variant of the coronavirus is: Today's announcement November 25th: a common four-nation plan for the Christmas period agreed between 23 and 27 of December with up to three house…
Rhuthun/Ruthin currently faces a spike in covid-19 cases. Infections in the area are against the overall Denbighshire grain of diminishing cases. How did we get to this point? The Statistics First, the stats, at at today, Friday November 27th. Here …
Here's a revised strapline at Brynhyfryd. We assume the school began using it in September 2020 but 'the right choice' appeared as the school's Facebook page on October 13th at the time it was trying to interest parents of final year p…
Brynhyfryd's back in business with close to 100 per cent expected attendance from Tuesday September 8th. Traffic was bad again but it was less busy than on its first days back, when at the time just 40 per cent returned. With a full complement, we…
Today, Ysgol Brynhyfryd welcomed back years 7, 11 and 12 to a 'new normal' at school. In old money, that's the first year, the fifth year and the lower sixth. That's about 40 per cent of school. The first year is presumably felt to be …
Ysgol Brynhyfryd was the first school in Wales to close because of the coronavirus threat. Like all schools, it reopened this morning. Here are some observations from the sidelines. 1. There was much, much more traffic around this morning. Most of …
Day One of Lockdown and I cannot report on the state of our town, because I'm heeding government advice and staying put. I was interested in an outdoor interview on the radio this afternoon with the Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick. …
I watched while a colleague packed up her work belongings into a cardboard box and left, because her stepson had been sent home with a cough. With her went her laptop, her screen and her plants. She'll be off for 14 days but won't return, work…
Work started yesterday on removing the stunted conifers unsuccessfully screening Ysgol Brynhyfryd's lodge. The ineffective conifer screen was designed to hide the state of the building but it didn't work. It's half term and, once the con…
Darren Millar AM made an appearance at yesterday's town council to give a presentation. It is perhaps testament to Rhuthun/Ruthin and its town council that he actually had very little to say. He made mention of the 'appalling' decision to …
Today's Daily Post Real Schools Guide reveals that Ysgol Brynhyfryd came joint 2nd out of the region's 54 local authority secondaries. Bravo. Brynhyfryd was the only Denbighshire school to score a full five stars—and also the only former Clwyd…
Ysgol Brynhyfryd is in the green. That's the result of the school support categorisation results published today by the Welsh government. When in 2017 the school leapfrogged from support category Red to Yellow, I admit I was sceptical that it co…
Day One was busy but day two of the Open Doors Rhuthun/Ruthin weekend was far less so. Sundays always are slower but, this year, there was morning rain till early afternoon. The county archive nevertheless put on a vintage display and showed some int…
