St Teilos

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St Teilos High School

Established	1966
Type	Public (magnet) secondary
Principal	Timothy Pratt
Faculty	80
Students	1200
Location	St Teilos High School Penylan Cardiff CF23 9DT Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
Website	[1]

St Teilo’s Church in Wales High School was opened in September 1966 as an 11-16 school and provides a church school comprehensive education for secondary students living mainly in the eastern half of Cardiff. It is now one of three Voluntary Aided Secondary Schools in the Diocese of Llandaff and serves a much wider geographical and spiritual ‘catchment’ area; many students come from the Diocese of Monmouth and as far away as Caerphilly.

As a Voluntary Aided school, the Local Education Authority maintains it, but the Church through its Governing Body, has considerable spiritual, financial, administrative, and educational duties towards it. The teaching staff are appointed by the Governing Body who have a responsibility to ensure that the curriculum and general life of the school is maintained through a sound Christian foundation.

1 Mandatory Subjects
- 1.1 Optional Subjects
- 1.2 Clubs
2 Famous Alumni
3 See Also
4 Links

[edit] Mandatory Subjects

[edit] Optional Subjects

Italian
Drama
Philosophy (As part of 6th Form study only) Note: As of the end of the school year 2006, Philosophy will no longer be available at St. Teilos.

[edit] Clubs

As part of the St Teilos Games department, there are a few school clubs. These include, football club, rugby, hockey, cricket and netball clubs. The St Teilo's firsts rugby team (also known as the Teilo's Ducks) got through to the semi final of a local cup competition in 2005.

Other clubs include gardening club, chess club, drama, music (brass band, windband, strings, orchestra, choirs)

[edit] Famous Alumni

Ben Andrews: Bassist of the Steers
Craig: He was on Pop Idol in the very first series in the UK and got down to the final 20.
Ian Davies (teacher): Used to provide commentary for the rugby highlights on BBC2 Wales' Scrum V show.
Ryan Davies: Hip-hop Producer, artists include Crazytalk.
Oliver Hoare: Actor, has appeared in films and once in BBC1's Casualty
Stephen Johns aka Jonny Bristol: Radio presenter for 'Saturday Live' on Burst Radio
William Jones: Rugby Player for Gwent Dragons and Wales U21
Mark Lerego (Former RE and History Teacher) played Bass for Eurovision Band Jemini
Ryan Lewis: Rapper who recently appeared on Channel 4s Shipwrecked.
Simon Read: DJ for Radio Glamorgan FM
Paul Thomas aka Dr Paul: sometimes appears on 'Saturday Live' to give relationship advice.
Jenny Tran: Head Girl 2003-2004, appeared on the Weakest Link with Anne Robinson in the spring of 2005 and got down to the final 3
Marcus Trotter, Rachel Jenkins and Ginger Richard (Otherwise known as Richard Jones): Appeared representing St Teilo's on schools Question Time on BBC1, 2005
Tom Watkins: Rock star. Plays guitar in current band Face Circus.
Judith Fathallah - author of book “Monkey Taming”. Published by Red Fox – a subsidiary branch of Random House Publishing, the novel explores issues relating to anorexia and self harm.