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Work begins on new Islwyn High School in Oakdale

News | | Published: 11:00, Tuesday August 11th, 2015.

Pupils from Oakdale and Pontllanfraith schools during a visit to the site of their new school and, inset, what the building will look like once finished
Pupils from Oakdale and Pontllanfraith schools during
a visit to the site of their new school and, inset, what the building will look like once finished

Work on a new £25 million school in Oakdale has begun.

Contractors Willmott Dixon have moved on to the former Oakdale Colliery site as they prepare to start construction of Islwyn High School.

The three-storey building will replace Oakdale and Pontllanfraith secondary schools.

Cllr Rhianon Passmore, Cabinet Member for Education, said: “It’s great to finally see work starting on this exciting and innovative new school development which will provide pupils in the area with a state-of-the-art school.”
The new school is set to open in summer 2016 ready for the new school year.

2 thoughts on “Work begins on new Islwyn High School in Oakdale”

  1. Dean Cooperfield-West says:
    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 18:24

    Alas, the WAG embark on their pet project of turning local schools, where everyone knows everyone, into big factories where students will be known by a number on a person-less system, and where teachers will hopelessly try to educate children who mostly do not care about education.

    The school is a failure, the school will cater to the lowest common denominator, the school will further hold back the most able while allowing the able in other parts of the country, or in the private system to reach their full potential. Wales will continue to be the low-skilled, cheap labour capital of the UK, Wales will continue to be its backwards, investment-less, poverty-stricken self.

    All hail the wonderful, skilful, philistine, banker-bashing, Labour-supporting adherents of socialism. I would have thought the lower inequality figures during the grammar school era would have finally burnt the delusions they possess away.

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    1. Cllr Richard Williams says:
      Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 01:22

      Wales was better off and better educated fifty years ago when grammar schools and secondary modern schools were the norm. A certain Margaret Thatcher, who was education secretary in 1973, put paid to my grammar education and condemned me to the useless comprehensive system.

      As Dean says Wales will continue to be low skilled and poor unless there is a major reorganisation of education and training. The only party that offers this is UKIP; Labour, Plaid, Tories and Lib Dems are all content with comprehensive education which is demonstrably a failed experiment. The wealthy will not suffer, it is poor families with bright children who will pay the price of a substandard education system.

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