Stanwell School

Stanwell School is a co-educational foundation status comprehensive school and Sixth form college located in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales for children aged between eleven and eighteen. The school is located 5.2 miles (8.4 kilometres) south west from the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

The school currently has approximately 1,800 pupils on the roll in years seven to thirteen with a thriving sixth form. The school benefits from excellent facilities, with all the school's buildings either newly built or recently refurbished.

Specialist teaching accommodation has been provided for science (featuring eleven modern laboratories), drama, music, media studies, P.E. (including sports halls and a playing field), Information Technology, Art and Design Technology

Stanwell School was previously Penarth County Grammar School prior to becoming a comprehensive.

History

A Victorian beginning with a fresh twist

The school originally opened in 1897 as Penarth Grammar School during the rapid Victorian expansion of the Penarth, Cogan, Llandough and Dinas Powys areas following the building of Cardiff and Penarth docks to handle the burgeoning South Wales coal trade. Between 1891 and 1901 the population of the town expanded from 12,000 to over 15,000 people and the need for a new school was paramount.

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Stanwell

Coordinates: 51°27′29″N 0°28′18″W / 51.458094°N 0.471531°W / 51.458094; -0.471531

Stanwell is an urban and suburban village located in the Surrey borough of Spelthorne, 15.7 miles (24.8 km) WSW of Charing Cross and centred half a mile (0.8 km) from the southern boundary of London Heathrow Airport, adjoining its cargo depot. It is the northernmost settlement in Surrey.

The 'village' of Stanwell Moor, a semi-rural neighbourhood has broken away from Stanwell by having its own village association, and is separated from the village centre by a field, large reservoir and dual carriageway, which includes most of the remaining village farms. However it is included within a ward and parish of Stanwell. In common, both localities have large areas of reservoir and are within 2 miles (3.2 km) of a junction of the M25 London Orbital Motorway. To the west of the village proper stretch further areas of open land, much of which is part of the Metropolitan Green Belt and is important primarily for fish and bird life, including the Staines Moor SSSI and the Colne Valley regional park.