ABSTRACT
When the headteacher took over Risca Comprehensive School in January 1994, she found a demoralised and disillusioned staff. The number on roll in a school opened in 1977 for 1,000 pupils was now under 650, partly in consequence of demographic changes, but more particularly of the accessibility for parental choice of the only GM school in Wales and of a second comprehensive school, still known locally to many as ‘the Grammar’.
