Age range 11–18 Pupil 1,500 Founded 1953 | Headteacher Cath Bradshaw Pupils 1500+ Phone +44 29 2023 2850 Staff 80 | |
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Address Lawrenny Ave, Cardiff CF11 8XB, UK Motto ‘Veritas praevalebit’ (Truth will prevail) |
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Fitzalan High School (Welsh: Ysgol Uwchradd Fitzalan) is a large, co-educational, community comprehensive secondary school in Cardiff for students aged eleven to nineteen. The school is located in the Leckwith area of Canton in Cardiff, Wales. The school serves some areas which are economically disadvantaged. Over forty languages are spoken within the school community. In 2010 there were 1,440 pupils on roll including 254 in the sixth form.
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- Inspirational fitzalan high school teaching assistant jiri banom
- Pool dive 8th feb at fitzalan high school
- History the origins
- Organisation and communications
- Facilities
- Head teachers
- School inspections
- Notable alumni
- References
The school's catchment area covers Canton, Butetown, Grangetown, Riverside. Principal feeder schools are Kitchener, Radnor, Lansdowne, Severn Road, Ninian Park, St. Mary the Virgin, Grangetown and Mount Stuart.
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History – the origins
Fitzalan High School has links to Cardiff's first municipal secondary school at Howard Gardens, Adamsdown in 1884. The school later became Howardian High School and a Grammar School in 1941. Much of the school was subsequently destroyed by incendiary bombs in the Cardiff Blitz during the night of 3–4 March 1941 in World War II. The school's girls and boys relocated to newly built buildings, Lady Margaret High School for Girls (1948) and Howardian High School for Boys (1953), in Penylan.
After the war the building at Howard Gardens was partially repaired. A new technical school was opened in September 1953 with around 200 boys. It was officially named ‘Fitzalan Technical High School’ in December 1953.
The Howard Gardens site was to be re-developed (as Cardiff School of Art & Design) and Fitzalan Technical High School acquired new premises on the present site in Lawrenny Avenue, Canton, Cardiff which were opened on Tuesday 3 March 1964. In January 1968 the school was renamed Fitzalan High School (dropping 'Technical'), becoming a comprehensive school.
Organisation and communications
Pupils are grouped according to their abilities with the more able pupils placed in an express set. Pupils with special educational needs receive specialist support in class to ensure that they can access the curriculum fully. The school has four Houses: DEWI, LLEWELLYN, GLYNDWR, and HYWEL. The school has a website, and issues a regular newsletter on school activities. A School Council exists for pupils to raise any issues through this forum. It has many community links and local residents and interest groups, who are allowed to use the extensive facilities. The school has an established and published policy on 'anti-bullying' for all pupils. A Parent Teacher Association (PTA) was formed in 1978 called the ‘Friends of Fitzalan‛. It supports the school, raises funds, and helps organise social events.
In 2007 the school embarked on a program to reduce its carbon footprint after an audit by the Carbon Trust. Steps taken included installing "eco-quiet" computers, one of which was to be powered by a demonstration wind turbine.
The school was awarded the NAACE Mark for excellence in the use of ICT in November 2005.
The school campus includes two gymnasia, a multi use dance studio, two indoor multi-use halls, two fitness suites, a sports hall, a swimming pool, four grass football and rugby pitches and an artificial cricket square. In addition daily access to the Gol Centre, comprising twelve five-a-side artificial football pitches, the Welsh International Athletics Stadium and artificial sports pitches. BTEC sport lessons take place both in the school and in Cardiff City Football Club.
Facilities
Head teachers
Fitzalan Technical High School, Howard Gardens
Fitzalan Technical High School, Leckwith
Fitzalan High School, Leckwith (as a comprehensive school)
School inspections
Fitzalan High School is inspected every six years by the independent statutory body Estyn, as part of the Welsh national programme of school inspection, funded by the National Assembly for Wales.