Redruth School

Redruth School A Technology College is a secondary school and sixth form college in Redruth, Cornwall, for 1,200 students aged 11 to 18. The school is developing its position as a focal point for the community, and retains strong links within the town. Redruth School has emerged as a strong and more successful establishment after a period which involved some negative publicity and underperformance. Staff and students have enjoyed recent successes with 2010 GCSE results predicted to place the school in the top 25% of similar schools nationally. Regular assemblies are held for many different years; also there are four houses (Murdoch, Marconi, Brunel and Holman) competing for the house cup, which Murdoch won last year, for the first time ever.

The sports fields of the school are also used as a venue for the Westward League Cross Country running competitions once a year.

Notable former pupils

Redruth

Coordinates: 50°13′59″N 5°13′26″W / 50.233°N 5.224°W / 50.233; -5.224

Redruth (/rəˈdruːθ/ rə-DROOTH, Cornish: Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Illogan and several satellite villages, stood at 55,400 making it the largest conurbation in Cornwall. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road (now the A30), and is approximately 9 miles (14 km) west of Truro, 12 miles (19 km) east of St Ives, 18 miles (29 km) north east of Penzance and 11 miles (18 km) north west of Falmouth. Camborne and Redruth together form the largest urban area in Cornwall and before local government reorganisation were an urban district.

Toponymy

The name Redruth (pronounced 'Red-rooth') derives from its Cornish name, Rhyd-ruth. Rhyd an older form of 'Res', which is a Cornish equivalent to a ford (across a river), a common Celtic word : Old Cornish rid; Welsh rhyd (Old Welsh rit); Old Breton rit or ret, Gaulish ritu-, all from Indo-European *prtus derived word in -tu from the root *per « to cross, to go through »; Proto-Germanic *furdúz (English ford, German Furt); Latin portus, all related to the Celtic word. It is the -ruth (and not the Red- part of the name) which means the colour red.