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((Infobox school
 | name                    = Rydal Penrhos School
 | image                   = RydalPenrhos.png
 | image_size              = 160px
 | motto                   = ''Veritas Scientia Fides''<br />(Truth, Knowledge, Faith)
 | established             = 1880 (Penrhos) and 1885 (Rydal Mount)<br />1999 (mergers)
 | closed                  = 
 | type                    = [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Private]] day school
 | religious_affiliation   = Methodist
 | president               = 
 | r_head_label            = Chaplain
 | r_head                  = Reverend Rob Beamish
 | chair_label             = 
 | chair                   = Deborah McKinnel
 | principal               = Tom Hutchinson
 | founder                 = Frederick Payne (Penrhos)<br />Thomas Osborn (Rydal Mount)
 | specialist              = 
 | address                 = Pwllycrochan Avenue
 | city                    = [[Colwyn Bay]]
 | county                  = [[Conwy County Borough|Conwy]]
 | country                 = Wales
 | postcode                = LL29 7BT
 | local_authority         = 
 | ofsted                  = 
 | urn                     = 401972
 | dfeno                   = 662/6019
 | staff                   = 
 | enrolment               = 325
 | gender                  = Co-educational
 | lower_age               = 2
 | upper_age               = 18
 | houses                  = Morgan<br />Osborn<br />Payne<br />Wesley
 | colours                 = Black, amber & cyan
 | publication             = 
 | website                 = ((url|www.rydalpenrhos.com))
))
'''Rydal Penrhos School''' is a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] day school in [[Colwyn Bay]], North Wales. It is the only [[Methodist]] school in the independent sector in Wales.<ref>((cite web|url=http://prep.rydalpenrhos.com/more/the_methodist_church/|title=Unavailable|website=prep.rydalpenrhos.com))</ref> It is located on multiple sites around the town with a site in the neighbouring village of [[Rhos-on-Sea]] where it keeps its watersports equipment for easy access to the beach.

==History==
The school started life as five separate institutions:

*'''Penrhos College''' was a Methodist girls-only boarding school founded in 1880 as a result of the generosity of Reverend Frederick Payne (1814-1895), a wealthy benefactor and [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan Methodist]] minister who lived in Colwyn Bay.  It was prominently situated above the promenade towards [[Rhos-on-Sea]]. Its motto was ''Semper ad lucem'' ("Always towards the light").
*'''Rydal School''' was founded (as Rydal Mount School) by Thomas Osborn in 1885 as a boys’ boarding school.  It was named after the house, at the junction of Lansdowne Road and Pwllycrochan Avenue in Colwyn Bay, which Osborn had acquired from Reverend Payne. This is still the main school site. From 1977((citation needed|date=March 2017)) it was a co-educational school.  Its former motto was ''Prodesse quam conspici'' ("Do good without display").
*  In the early 20th century both Rydal and Penrhos created preparatory or junior departments, which in due course each moved to its own premises.
*  Rydal Preparatory School occupied Walshaw House, Oak Drive, Colwyn Bay when Rydal School was evacuated to Oakwood Park during the Second World War (see below). In 1946 when Rydal came back from Oakwood Park, the Preparatory School took its place there.  It remained there until 1953, when it moved to its present site at Pwllycrochan. This had been the property of Lady Erskine, owner of the Pwllycrochan estate, and was developed as the Pwllycrochan Hotel before being bought by Rydal.
*  Penrhos Junior School occupied a substantial house in Oak Drive, Colwyn Bay.
*'''Lyndon School''' was a private preparatory school in Colwyn Bay.

In 1887, Payne founded St John's Methodist Church on Pwllycrochan Avenue, which was used regularly by both Rydal and Penrhos.<ref>((cite web |title=St. John’s Uniting Church, Conway Road |url=https://colwynbayheritage.org.uk/st-johns-uniting-church-conway-road/ |website=Colwyn BayHeritage On-line |access-date=28 March 2021))</ref> In 2010, the stewardship of St John's was passed to Rydal Penrhos, which needed more space for school worship and special events.

In 2020 it was announced that the school would no longer offer a boarding option from 2021 and would operate as a day school only.<ref>((cite news|title=Historic school to stop taking boarders due to economic climate|publisher=The Daily Post|date=9 January 2019|access-date=27 March 2020|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/historic-school-stop-taking-boarders-15646810))</ref>

==Architecture==
A degree of uniformity of design in central Colwyn Bay owes much to a single architect, [[Sidney Colwyn Foulkes]], whose concept has been followed by other architects.  His father designed St John's Methodist Church, and he was responsible for many of the school's buildings, as well as others in the vicinity, and further afield in North Wales.  This led to the area that includes the school being designated as Colwyn Bay's first conservation area.

==Evacuation of Rydal School==
During the Second World War, the main campus of Rydal was occupied by the Ministry of Food.  The school was evacuated to Oakwood Park, a small country estate 2 miles west of the town of Conwy.  The school returned to Colwyn Bay in 1946.

==Evacuation of Penrhos College==
During the Second World War, the Penrhos College site was taken over by the government for [[Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Food]] use. The [[Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire|Duke of Devonshire]], anticipating that schoolgirls would make better tenants than soldiers, offered [[Chatsworth House]] for the use of the school. The contents of the house were packed away in eleven days and 300 girls and their teachers moved in for a six-year stay. The whole of the house was used, including the state rooms, which were turned into dormitories. Condensation from the breath of the sleeping girls caused fungus to grow behind some of the pictures. The house was not very comfortable for so many people, with a shortage of hot water, but there were compensations, such as skating on the Canal Pond. The girls grew vegetables in the garden as a contribution to the war effort.

==Amalgamation==
Rydal Preparatory School merged with Penrhos Junior School in 1995 to become Rydal Penrhos Preparatory School, which, in 2003, underwent a further merger with Lyndon School, which retained its name until 2010. The former Penrhos Junior and Lyndon campuses were disposed of and staff and students were relocated to the larger existing Rydal Preparatory School campus.

In 1999, Rydal School and Penrhos College agreed to merge as Rydal Penrhos School. Initially they were run as three separate divisions: "preparatory", "girls" and "co-educational", reflecting the three formerly separate incarnations. The Penrhos College campus was eventually closed down and sold for re-development, and its pupils moved to the main Rydal campus, the divisions being amalgamated into a single entity. The merger and integration was not without controversy, not least over the sale of the former Penrhos site and the restructuring of the staff.

==Introduction of the International Baccalaureate==
In 2004, the school began to offer the International Baccalaureate programme of study in its sixth form years, as a parallel alternative to the A-level programme that was already being offered. This led to an increase in the number of pupils attending the school from overseas countries such as Ukraine, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Russia and the Czech Republic. The school stopped teaching the International Baccalaureate programme when it ceased to offer boarding, and currently offers A-levels and Cambridge Technical courses to its sixth-form students.<ref>((Cite web |title=Curriculum |url=https://rydalpenrhos.com/sixth-form/curriculum/ |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Rydal Penrhos |language=en-US))</ref>

==First-class cricket==
((Infobox cricket ground
|      ground_name = Rydal School
|         nickname = 
|            image = Rydal Penrhos Pavilion.jpg
|          caption = The pavilion at New Field, Rydal Penrhos
|          country = Wales
|         location = [[Colwyn Bay]], Wales
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| seating_capacity = 
|            owner = 
|        architect = 
|       contractor = 
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|          tenants = 
|             end1 = 
|             end2 = 
|            year1 = 1929
|            club1 = [[Wales national cricket team|Wales]]
|            year2 = 1934
|            club2 = [[Denbighshire County Cricket Club|Denbighshire]]
|             date = 10 August
|             year = 2009
|           source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/90/428.html CricketArchive
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The school's cricket pitch was used as the venue for a [[first-class cricket|first-class]] match between [[Wales national cricket team|Wales]] and the touring [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africans]] in 1929.<ref>((cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/90/428_f.html|title=First-Class Matches played on Rydal School, Colwyn Bay|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=14 February 2013))</ref> The three-day match, played on 10–12 June 1929, resulted in a 10-run victory for the South Africans and saw [[Bob Catterall]] of South Africa (117) and [[William Bates (cricketer)|William Bates]] of Wales (102) record centuries.<ref>((cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/13/13163.html|title=Wales v South Africans, 1929|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=14 February 2013))</ref> [[Denbighshire County Cricket Club|Denbighshire]] later played a single [[Minor Counties Championship]] match against [[Northumberland County Cricket Club|Northumberland]] at the ground in 1934.<ref>((cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/90/428_minc.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played on Rydal School, Colwyn Bay|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=14 February 2013))</ref>

==Notable alumni==
((see also|Category:People educated at Rydal Penrhos))
* [[Leslie Goonewardene]] – Sri Lankan statesman and independence activist. He founded the country's first political party, the [[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]] and played a key role in both [[Indian independence movement|Indian]] and [[Sri Lankan independence movement|Sri Lankan independence]].
* [[Edith Rigby]] (b. 1872) – suffragette and arsonist
* [[Wilf Wooller]] – First-class [[cricket]]er for [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan CCC]] and [[Wales national rugby union team|Welsh international]] [[rugby union]] player
* [[Geoffrey Elton]] – [[historian]], was a student at Rydal School and later taught there
* [[Lewis Elton]] – physicist, educational researcher and brother of Sir Geoffrey, was a student at Rydal School; father of [[Ben Elton]]
* [[William Roache]] – Long-running ''[[Coronation Street]]'' actor attended Rydal School
* [[Linus Roache]] – Actor best known for role in [[United States|American]] series ''[[Law & Order]]'' attended Rydal School
* [[Duncan Kenworthy]] – Film producer, best known for producing films such as ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'' and ''[[Love Actually]]'', attended Rydal School
* [[Bleddyn Williams]] – [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] [[rugby union]] captain, capped 22 times and also captained the [[British and Irish Lions|British Lions]] in 1950
* [[Paula Yates]] – Television presenter who attended Penrhos College
* [[Anne Reid]] – Actress who attended Penrhos College
* [[List of Doctor Who villains|Janet Hargreaves]] – Actress best known for her role as a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' villain, attended Penrhos College
* [[Angela Knight]] – [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] attended Penrhos College
* [[Dafydd Wigley]] – [[Plaid Cymru]] Member of Parliament for Caernarfon from 1974 to 2001, Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 1999 to 2003, Leader of Plaid Cymru from 1991 to 2000
* [[Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch]] – Former banker and UK Labour government minister
* [[Andy Fenby]] – Professional rugby player for London Irish
* [[Michael Arditti]] – Novelist, literary critic and playwright attended Rydal School
* [[Ann Sophie]] – German singer and songwriter
* [[The Vivienne]] – Welsh drag queen and winner of [[RuPaul's Drag Race UK]]
* [[Gareth Davies (Welsh politician)|Gareth Davies]] (born 1988), [[Welsh Conservative]] politician

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.rydalpenrhos.com/ Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151204200930/http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/wales/wales-north/colwyn-bay/rydal-penrhos-school/ Profile] on the [[Independent Schools Council]] website

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[[Category:International Baccalaureate schools in Wales]]
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