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Ysgol David Hughes serves the catchment area of south-east Anglesey, a mainly agricultural area with some light industry which is characteristic of the area. This is a bilingual comprehensive school with approximately 1105 pupils aged between 11-18 and approximately 81 teachers and 42 support staff. We aim to provide our pupils with a broad education that includes elements of communication, literacy, numeracy, science, humanities, expressive arts, practical skills, and technology. Many subjects use aspects of information technology and we have made considerable investments in this field over recent years. The school also has a modern sports center with a dance hall, fitness room and large sports hall. The center is open to the public on evenings and weekends. Our aim at Ysgol David Hughes is to give pupils the best possible education. Above all, we wish to base our whole system on the concept of respect - the respect of the school towards the pupil, pupil respect for other pupils, respect towards the school’s bilingual community, and respect towards the future of the community served by the school. Every pupil is regarded as an individual who is an important member of Ysgol David Hughes. We emphasize high academic standards, which means that the individual will realize his or her potential. We encourage all our pupils to succeed regardless of their ability. We also hope to expand horizons through several extra-curricular school activities, the development of social consciousness through our efforts on behalf of charities, broadening the mind with the experience of foreign visits, ensuring an understanding of the local community via our work experience and business enterprise programs. We hope to stress fundamental discipline and care for the individual through our pastoral system. This will be supported by the development of a detailed scheme of transfer from primary to secondary school. In recent years the school has invested heavily in technological equipment and resources which provide pupils with the necessary skills to face the challenge of the new millennium. Emphasis is placed on the library’s resources which are essential to meet the demands of GCSE coursework/controlled assessments. Our science and technology departments place great importance on the practical nature of their subjects. Within the geography and humanity fields, emphasis is placed on fieldwork, and the Welsh and English departments regularly arrange visits to local and national theatres. While attempting to develop the rounded pupil we believe that the expressive arts (Music, Art, and Drama) are important and we are proud of our achievements in these fields. These can be measured in terms of school courses, our public performances and the success of pupils in the media, the Welsh Youth Orchestra, and the numbers who have progressed to follow a successful career in the arts. The idea of a partnership between teacher and pupil, school and home is fundamental to the above. One of the greatest strengths of the school has always been its caring, open, and happy ethos where pupils feel at home and enjoy their education in a bilingual environment of which they are apart. View full school