GLAMORGAN RECORD OFFICE/ARCHIFDY MORGANNWG
Reference code:
GB 0214 ESEC75
Title:
Fitzalan High School, Cardiff
Dates :
1951-2003
Level of
description:
Fonds
Extent and medium:
0.36 cubic metres ([7 boxes, 42 volumes)
Name of creators: Fitzalan Technical High School for Boys and
Fitzalan High School
Administrative/biographical history
Fitzalan High School was formed in 1968 from Fitzalan Technical High School
for Boys and a number of other schools. Until 1951 technical education was
confined to groups of pupils in Cathays and Howard Gardens High Schools for
Boys but in that year a Technical Department was established in Viriamu
Jones Secondary Modern School with an intake of three forms, expanded to
six in 1952. Fitzalan was opened as a new separate technical school in 1953
in the old Howard Gardens School buildings which had been built in 1895 and
severely damaged by bombs in 1941. Fitzalan acquired new premises on the
present site in Lawrenny Avenue in 1964. The introduction of comprehensive
secondary school education in the 1960s led to the creation of Fitzalan High
School based on the pre-existing Technical High School with the addition of
secondary pupils from Kitchener Girls, Severn Road, Ninian Park Girls and
Boys, and Market Road High, Canton.
Archival history
Records for the period before with the exception of the Fitzalan High School
admissions book 1951-1968 were transferred from preceding schools but are
incomplete and many records such as school admissions registers are
missing.
Immediate source of acquisition
Fitzalan High School
Scope and content
Records relating to admissions, school syllabus, and school government. A
large body of newspaper and magazine cuttings with programmes, and
particularly photographs relate to school activities.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
All records which meet the collection policy of the Glamorgan Record Office
have been retained. Duplicate items have been returned to the school. Most
of the photographs and newscuttings retained have not been listed in detail
owing to their large quantity. The majority are held in 42 loose volumes; loose
photographs and sveral smaller volumes have been boxed.
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FITZALAN HIGH SCHOOL, CARDIFF ESEC75
Accruals
Accruals are possible
System of arrangement
Conditions governing access
Items containing information on named individuals may be restricted in
accordance with the Data Protection Act and Record Office policy.
Conditions governing reproduction
Normal Glamorgan Record Office conditions apply.
Language/scripts of material
Mainly English; some newsletters are also found in translation in African and
Asian languages
Language code
eng
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Good to fair condition
Finding aids
Summary list available.
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Note
Archivist’s note
Compiled by Richard Morgan for the Glamorgan Record Office.
Rules or conventions
This description follows Glamorgan Record Office guidelines based on
ISAD(G) compatible cataloguing guidelines for fonds level descriptions used
by the Archives Network Wales.
Date of description
May 2004
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FITZALAN HIGH SCHOOL, CARDIFF ESEC75
ESEC75/1 Box 1
Admissions register of Fitzalan Secondary Technical
and Fitzalan High School for Boys
Flyleaf: Viriamu Jones Technical School [deleted]
1 volume; poor condition
1951-1968
Punishment book
1 volume; fair condition
1953-1979
Mathematics book test syllabus
1 spring binder; fair condition
1928-1940
'Workshops Syllabus' for woodwork, technical drawing,
and metalwork
1 volume; good condition
c.1965
A Shared Explanation. An Initiative in Primary /
Secondary Education in Language, by Dianne Harvey
(Fitzalan High School) and Gareth Williams (Ninian
Park Primary School)
1 booklet; good condition
1985
Pastoral curriculum. Staff handbook year 1. 1983
1 booklet; good condition
1983
Learning Style. Teaching Technique
1 booklet; good condition
c.1989
Computer Awareness. A one-term course. Form 1 and
Form 2
2 booklets; good condition
c.1989
Fitzalan High School handbooks
4 booklets; good condition
c.1980-c.1986
School Folder describing school facilities and work
4 folders; good condition
1994-1997
HMI Report
1 booklet; good condition
Spring 1984
History Department GCSE Modules (Syllabus A),
Coursework Information for Moderators. The Rise of
Communist China
1 booklet; fair condition
c.1988
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ESEC75/Box 1
cont.
'The Titanic'. What really happened? A case study.
Asking questions', by Angus Dunphy, Fitzalan High
School
1 booklet; good condition
1987
History is Detective Work. King Arthur's Round Table.
True or False, by Angus Dunphy, Fitzalan High School
1 booklet; good condition
1985
ESEC75/2 Box 2
Awards Ceremony programmes
13 booklets; good condition
1981-1993
Governors' annual reports
1 bundle; good condition
1987-1995
ESEC75/3 Box 3
Governors' annual reports
1 bundle; good condition
1996-2001
ESEC75/4 Box 4
Photographs of staff, pupils at study, and site of new
Fitzalan High School and school 1968
1 volume; good condition
c.1955-1968
Technical High School magazines (incomplete series)
11 booklets; good condition
1969-1984
Technical High School St David's Day Celebrations
programme; in use for several years
1 booklet; fair condition
c.1955-c.1960
Annual Prize Giving programmes
1 bundle; good condition
1958-1967
Fitzalan Highlights 1997/98. Newspapers and
magazine cuttings duplicated and bound
1 booklet; good condition
1998
ESEC75/5 Box 5
Fitzalan High School Newsletter
1 bundle; good condition
1986-1993
'Fitzalan in the News', Cuttings
1 volume; good condition
1991-1995
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'Mosaic' school magazine, issues 2-6
1 bundle; fair condition
c.1990
Canton Festival programme
1 booklet; good condition
1986
Radnor Road School Centenary 1888-1998. One
hundred years of education. Souvenir programme
containing history of school
1 booklet; good condition
1988
Press cuttings
1 bundle; poor condition
1986-1987
ESEC75/6 Box 6
School Newspaper, issues 1-21
1 bundle
Dec 1992-Dec 2003
Scrapbook Sep 1979-Dec 1980
Scrapbook Dec 1980-Dec 1982
Scrapbook
3 volumes; fair condition
Dec 1982-May 1985
Cuttings, memorabilia and photographs
1 volume; fair condition
2002-2003
ESEC755/7 Photographs of Paris visit
1998
Photographs and negatives (unlisted)
'House Champions' at rugby 1957 and 1958 and
athletic c.1957/1958
1957-1958
School photographs album: class photographs
1 booklet; good condition
1981
Duke of Edinburgh's visit
c.1980
School plays
1978-1981
Steel band
c.1980
Peter Hain's visit
c.1990
Fashion show
1987
Russian visit
c.1980
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Visit of Wyn Roberts
Jan 1989
School fete
1986
Public Speaking Group
Autumn 1986
Cardiff Voice Evening
Autumn 1986
Caribbean Focus
Autumn 1986
Caribbean Concert
c.1986
Awards Ceremony
1987
Bhavaiyars of Gujarat
c.1985
Urban Bushwomen
c.1985
ESEC75/8-42 Volumes 8-42
These consist of 35 volumes of photographs,
newspaper and magazine cuttings, and enclosed
memoraibilia and programmes relating to school work
and school activities, and include two volumes
described as 'School Record'. Volumes do not contain
lists or indexes and many photographs do not bear any
explanatory notes or dates. Some enclosed papers are
likely to be duplicates of items described in
ESEC75/Boxes 1-7
c.1964-c.2003
