Rydal Penrhos

Welcome to Rydal Penrhos

Thank you for visiting our website. We are a co-educational boarding and day school, and our top priority is to work with our pupils to help them become confident, mature and well-educated young people.  We want them be a credit to themselves, their parents, and to the school, and to leave us well equipped for the challenges that they will face in their lives. 

We are a distinctive school with a unique standing in the region and widely respected well beyond North Wales. We are confident about making changes when we know that they will benefit our pupils, and strong enough successfully to combine fine traditions with contemporary practices and philosophies.  

The school is an educational charity, founded in the Methodist tradition. We aim to be an inclusive organisation and we do all we can to share our resources - both physical and human - with our community.

Please click here for our Headmaster's Welcome to Rydal Penrhos.

Location

Colwyn Bay lies in an area of North Wales that is rich in culture and history and enjoys a spectacular setting between the mountains of the Snowdonia National Park and the Irish Sea. Castles, crags, beaches and cities such as Chester and Manchester are on our doorstep, and we make the most of our surroundings to enrich the educational experience of all our pupils.

Our extra-curricular programme puts great emphasis on working in teams, whether on the water or up the mountains, and is designed to broaden our pupils' horizons and give them the chance to discover themselves through new interests, to make firm friends and to appreciate the environment in which they find themselves.