A former employee is making allegations and there's a fairly lively debate over on Facebook as to whether Schola Ruthinensis is up for sale to the Chinese. It isn't. But it has changed as an entity. It's formally become the business it …
It was built in 2018. It was damaged in the storms of December 2021 . Today, finally, the scaffolding is coming down at Rhos Street School after almost 12 months.
Ruthin School has slumped from 5th to 81st in the A level league table for public schools, according to the Daily Post. Schola Ruthinensis from across the road where the riffraff (aka rest of us) probably get a better education In 2019, the last year …
Overnight yesterday (Friday) came the first seasonal storm of the winter. Storm Arwen. It was bleak and it was black. There wasn't so much noticeable damage in town this morning... except at Schola Ruthinensis, where a wall collapsed at one of th…
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…
In pragmatic rather than remarkable news, following close behind Thursday's announcement that secondary schools in Wales were to finish for face-to-face teaching yesterday (rather than as planned on December 18th), came a decision also yesterday t…
No sooner had the Welsh government announced the Denbighshire local health protection zone (i.e. local lockdown-lite) than the landlady at the Wine Vaults announced that she was again to close temporarily. This time, it was a voluntarily decision. La…
Back to school today. Except it isn't. Lockdown continues. Brynhyfryd closed early, on March 24th for all learners but reopened for key workers' children on March 30th. There were no takers. Ysgolion Rhos Street, Borthyn a Phen Barras con…
A very different afternoon to yesterday . And the whole world was out for a walk in the bright, warm weather, causing zig-zagging back and forth to ensure physical distances. Cloudless skies and it was perhaps a mistake to take exercise in the warmth …
Ever since for sale by tender notices appeared at the former Rhos Street schools site, there has been speculation as to what may happen to it. In fact, the signs are still there which, given that part of the plans have come unstuck, is perhaps just as…
This from the Daily Post website today. Did the journos responsible realise that the ethereal inset of Ruthin School's former principal Toby Belfield effectively gave him a halo? Or was that by design, as in black comedy? Belfield left on Febr…
The scandal at Scola Ruthinensis gets worse. Published yesterday was an Estyn inspection report after a November 2019 visit. It concentrated on safeguarding and, here, there were many strengths but lost of weaknesses. This is on top of the Care Inspe…
It's not been a good week for our public school, Schola Ruthinensis. News emerged in the Times newspaper and others, not least the Daily Mail and the Daily Post, that the school's head has been sending what are referred to as 'flirty …
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…
