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Ysgol Gymraeg Rhyd-y-grug
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil CF48 4NT · rhyd-y-grug.cymru · 01685 351818
On the mapSearch near CF48 4NT
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected August 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 278
- Local authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Language
- Welsh medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 12%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 3.4%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 0%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in August 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · August 2025
- Improve pupils' Welsh reading skills
- Ensure high expectations consistently from staff to support all pupils to achieve to the best of their ability
All reports
- Aug 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Aug 2025Summary for parents and carers
Jan 2017Inspection report3 recommendations
- Ensure that teachers plan a greater number of purposeful opportunities for pupils to use their numeracy skills across the curriculum
- Ensure that teachers plan purposeful opportunities for pupils to develop their use of all elements of information and communication technology (ICT) across the… Full report
- Ensure that the expectations of all teachers in key stage 2 are always high enough to develop the mathematical and scientific skills of more able pupils
- Nov 2012Monitoring visit
- May 2011Inspection report
2005Inspection report7 recommendations
- raise standards in language, literacy and communication skills, personal and social development, physical development and creative development in the nursery… Full report
- raise standards in history, geography and art in KS1;
- ensure that schemes of work for subjects are complete and are appropriately updated;
- develop the role of the subject co-ordinators and provide opportunities for them to monitor subjects regularly;
- develop performance management procedures;
- continue to develop the self-evaluation process;
- ensure that the content of the GB's annual report to parents complies fully with statutory requirements.