School Consultations

Further consultation on this proposal is being undertaken, in addition to that undertaken last Autumn Term.
This proposal, outlined  was to close Aberdare Girls’ School, Aberdare High School, and Blaengwawr Comprehensive School and create a new secondary school for Aberdare. The proposal also sought to transfer the existing Speech and Language Communication Disorder special educational needs provision based at Blaengwawr Comprehensive School to the new secondary school.

As a result of this feedback from governors, parents, pupils and school staff we have amended the proposal and are seeking your views on the following:

• Close Aberdare Girls’ Comprehensive School, with the pupils transferring to a new secondary school for Aberdare in September 2014.
• Close Aberdare High School, with pupils transferring to a new secondary school for Aberdare in September 2014.
• Close Blaengwawr Comprehensive School, with pupils transferring to a new secondary school for Aberdare in September 2014;
• Transfer the Speech and Language Communication Disorder special educational needs provision based at Blaengwawr Comprehensive School to the new secondary school.
• Create a new 11-18 aged secondary school for Aberdare. The new school will be built on the Ynys site and will open in September 2014.
• There will be no interim solution as previously proposed. The three Aberdare secondary schools proposed for closure will continue to operate as three schools until the new school is built.
• Appoint a new headteacher and governing body for the new school at least 12 months before September 2014 to plan the new curriculum and manage the transfer of pupils and staff;
• Rebuild the Michael Sobell Sports Centre, incorporating it as part of Aberdare Swimming Pool and the new secondary school for Aberdare

School Organisation, Planning and Governance Unit
Ty Trevithick
Abercynon
Mountain Ash
CF45 4UQ

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council is proposing to make a prescribed alteration to the Instrument of Government of Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari, to amend the age range of pupils it can admit, from 11 to 18 years, to 3 to 18 years. This will enable the admission of pupils of Primary school age, and increase the amount of school places available for children of this age range, whose parents request Welsh Medium education, in an area of the County Borough where demand for such places is currently exceeding supply.

School Organisation, Planning and Governance Unit
Ty Trevithick
Abercynon
Mountain Ash
CF45 4UQ