First started as “Tondu Works School” for Aber Collieries in a Room in house in the North of Tynewydd Row. In 1871 the School was moved to a purpose built wooden school at the end of Tynewydd Row and were forever known afterwards as “University Buildings”. This first wooden school building was later used as the Workmen’s Hall (from 1892) and from 1910 as the offices for the Aber Coal Company. It was demolished in 1974 to make way for the “Oxford Court Flats”. The third and last Tynewydd School was built and opened in 1892 on School Hill. The School clsoed in July 2003 when all the pupils were transferred to the new Ogmore Vale Primary School built on the old site of Ogmore Vale Generating Station. The school was subject to an Arson attack in 2006 and now Town Houses have been built on the site.
| Name | School | From | To | Comments | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Smith | Tynewydd Infants & Juniors | 1865 | 25th Mar 1873 | First started as “Tondu Works School” for Aber Collieries in a Room in house in the North of Tynewydd Row. In 1871 the School was moved to a purpose built wooden school at the end of Tynewydd Row and were forever known as “University Buildings. It was later used as the Workmen’s Hall (from 1892) and from 1910 as the offices for the Aber Coal Company. It was demolished in 1974 to make way for the “Oxford Court Flats. | |
| William Bamford | Tynewydd Infants & Mixed Juniors | 25th Mar 1873 | Aug 1873 | ||
| Henry Mackney | Tynewydd Infants & Mixed Juniors | Aug 1873 | 01st Apr 1887 | In 1874 the Inspectors report stated there were, in addition to the Master, 2 pupil teachers and a “A. Mackney”, sewing Mistress. In 1880 this was increased with an Assistant Mistress (Miss Margaret Joseph) and another pupil teacher. In 1886 with the setting up of the School Boards, “Tynewydd” ceased to be a “Tondu Works School” and came under the control of Llangeinor School Board. | |
| Henry Mackney | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | 01st Apr 1887 | 17th Oct 1894 | On 01st Apr 1887 the Llangeinor School Board decided to split the Junior & Infant sections. On 20th March 1889 the school board passed the resolution that “That no corporal punishment be administered by anyone except the head Teacher.” | |
| Edward Edwards | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | 17th Oct 1894 | 30th Aug 1915 | On the 08th Feb 1895 it was reported in the school log that the thermometer measured three degrees of frost inside the school building and that the ink was frozen in the inkwells! In 1903 the school comes under the control of the Councils. In 1915 the Boys and Girls became separate Schools, the boys moving to Caedu. Edward Edwards formed the first branch of the Independent Labour Party in Ogmore Vale in 1893 as a result of the Wyndham Hauliers Strike which escalated into a strike across the whole of South wales with 40,000 miners on strike and 9,000 facing a lockout | |
| Mrs G. Howe | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | 03rd Sep 1962 | 21st Jul 1970 | In 1962 the Boys School in Caedu closed and the boys again joined the Girls Aber Junior school to form Tynewydd Junior School. | |
| Mr Reginald G. Saunders | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | 21st Jul 1970 | 02nd Nov 1970 | ||
| Mr Aelfryn Evans | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | 02nd Nov 1970 | 03-Sep-82 | Aelfryn Evans | |
| Mr Elfed Roberts | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | 03-Sep-82 | Sep-87 | Cut short due to ill health | Aelfryn Evans |
| Mrs Margaret Rich | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | Sep-87 | Sep-97 | Aelfryn Evans | |
| Mr P. Croke | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | Sep-97 | ?? | Aelfryn Evans | |
| Ms Jill Sparkes | Tynewydd Mixed Juniors | ?? | Jul-03 | Tynewydd Junior School closed to merge with Aber, Fronwen and Ogmore Nursery to Form Ogmore Vale Primary School which opens in Sep 2003. | Aelfryn Evans |
| Miss M. Llewellyn | Tynewydd Infants | ?? | ?? | Aelfryn Evans | |
| Mrs M. Rowe | Tynewydd Infants | ?? | ?? | Aelfryn Evans |