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- The school was founded in 1896 as Port Talbot Intermediate School and later named the Port Talbot County School. The grammar school took the name Glan Afan in 1951 and in 1959 became Glan Afan Grammar Technical School.
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In 1965 following the introduction of comprehensive education in Port Talbot the school undertook a further name change, and merged with Velindre Secondary Modern School to become Glan Afan Comprehensive School, taking pupils up to the age of 18.
The school opened on 28 September 1896 when 44 boys and 41 girls enrolled. The school magazine Avonian was first published in 1902. The new block consisting of six classrooms, an art room, a craft room, a biology lab, gymnasium and a new hall were officially opened by Alderman John Thomas in 1938.
The school closed in July 2016 to facilitate the merger of Glan Afan itself, Cwrt Sart Comprehensive, Sandfields Comprehensive and Traethmelyn Primary School into the ultra-modern £40millon 'super-school', Ysgol Bae Baglan.
Mar 25, 2021 · The future of the former Glan Afan comprehensive school building is now in the hands of Coastal Housing Group, which, together with Port Talbot's Business Improvement District, has been...
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Jan 1, 2016 · Glan Afan Comprehensive School (Welsh: Ysgol Gyfun Glan Afan) was a mixed comprehensive school which served the town of Port Talbot, Wales, and its surrounding areas for 120 years. It was opened in 1896 as Port Talbot Intermediate School under the provisions of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889.
May 16, 2024 · Glan Afan Technical School, Sandfields and Trefelin Secondary Modern Schools amalgamated to create Glan Afan Comprehensive School
The school was enlarged in 1938 and became Glan Afan Grammar School in 1951. Later, in 1959, it became Glan Afan Technical School, before amalgamating with several other schools in...
