While maintained schools across Wales start the new curriculum this term, a private school head has explained why his pupils won’t be. Alun Millington opened his own secondary school, Redhill High, in Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire after a career mainly in the state sector.
Redhill High School, which serves children aged 11 to 18, opened with 24 pupils in 2018 and now has 90, with the school expanding during the pandemic. Mr Millington, who was educated at a comprehensive in Swansea, didn’t set foot in a private school until 2014 and doesn’t want to criticise the state sector, but feels there are alternatives people want.
Under the new curriculum for Wales traditional subject boundaries have been ditched in favour of faculties. But Mr Millington said he, his staff and parents who sent their children to Redhill preferred to continue with separated individual subjects taught by specialist teachers. You can read more details about the new curriculum and how it works here
