Our website uses cookies
We use cookies for website functionality and to help analyse our traffic so we can improve our services. Necessary cookies help make the website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation, the website cannot function properly without these cookies. Please choose your preferences below. Cookie Information
Allow all Cookies Allow selection
The Vale of Glamorgan Council is consulting on a proposed change to school admission arrangements for community schools for the academic year 2022/2023, in respect of a proposed temporary change to St Cyres School catchment area for a period of three years commencing 2022/23 and a permanent change to Ysgol Dewi Sant School catchment area.
More information on the proposal can be found in the following documents:
The consultation period will run from 14 December 2020 to 08 February 2021. You can respond to the consultation in the following ways:
During the consultation period concerns were raised and received from secondary schools in Barry. Consequently, counter proposals were made by the three English medium secondary schools to work with the Council to manage demand in the Barry area. As a result of this, the outcome of this consultation was a proposed amendment to the initial proposal as follows;
The Council carefully considered all comments received at its Cabinet meeting on the 22 March 2021 together with the amendment to the initial proposal. Cabinet approved the amendments as described above to discontinue the establishment of a dual catchment area for St Cyres School, to include an additional criterion in the secondary school oversubscription criteria to reflect previous feeder school arrangements and to change the Ysgol Dewi Sant catchment area. The arrangements will become policy for the academic year 2022/23.
The admissions policy and letter are available to download or hard copies are available on request by contacting the Learning and Skills Directorate: