Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern
school in Cardiff, Wales
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern is a mixed, Welsh-medium secondary school for pupils between 11 and 19 years old. The school is situated in Penylan, Cardiff, Wales. As of 2022, it had 907 pupils on roll, with 131 pupils in the sixth form. 18 per cent of pupils came from Welsh-speaking homes in 2017.
The name 'Bro Edern' (Vale of Edern) refers to Saint Edern who is commemorated in the name Llanedeyrn. Of the three Welsh-medium secondary schools serving Cardiff, it is the newest (the others being Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr).
History
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern was founded in September 2012, as Cardiff's third Welsh-medium secondary school, due to increasing demand for Welsh-medium education in Cardiff. During its first academic year (2012–13) when it had 71 year 7 pupils, it was based temporarily on the site of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, before moving to its permanent buildings, the former site of St Teilo's Church in Wales High School by September 2013. The school was inspected for the first time in November 2017 when Estyn reported that "The school is a very close-knit community with an extremely caring and supportive ethos." Following the inspection, the school was invited by Estyn to prepare an effective practice report on its work in relation to the use that teachers and pupils make of information and communication technology to support learning and teaching.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern” as school in Cardiff, Wales. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as school in Cardiff, Wales. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14323178. VIAF identifies the subject as 14152259564316982798. The Library of Congress control number is no2018038798. Authority coordinates are 51.505, -3.156. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2017, 2012 and 2013.
Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern primary sources, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern archive and Ysgol research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.