Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen is a large English-medium comprehensive school serving the Garw and Ogmore valleys. The school was formed as a result of a merger of

Ogmore Comprehensive School Ogmore Comprehensive school, formerly known as Ogmore Grammar School, was a secondary school located in the Bridgend County Borough in Wales, UK. Ogmore Comprehensive School's mottos was “Preparing Pupils for life". The school was established ...

and

Ynysawdre Comprehensive School Ynysawdre Comprehensive School was a public secondary school located in Tondu in Bridgend County Borough which catered for ages between 11 and 18. Beginning in Autumn Term 2011, Ynysawdre Comprehensive officially closed and its former students ...

in 2011. The school initially operated as a split site school, with students being taught on the campus of both of the previous schools, but in 2013 the school moved to its new building located next to the old Ynysawdre site. The new building, designed by Scott Brownrigg and constructed by Leadbitter won the BREEAM Outstanding award in 2013. The school was the first in Wales to issue all of its students with an iPad MiniAbBolter
"Pupils issued with free iPad Mini tablets in Welsh first"
''walesonline''. as educational tools, designed to inspire creativity and aid hands on learning. Estyn has given Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen an overall performance rating of Unsatisfactory. For 2017, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen was placed in the Amber support category by the Welsh Government. In 2014, Macphallen "Mac" Kuwale, an Information Technology teacher at the school, was arrested for turning his Cardiff home into a cocaine distribution facility.

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School Website

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