Subjects included English, Maths, General Science, French, Welsh, Geography, History, Physical Education, Art, Woodwork, Music and Religious Knowledge.

[2][3] The aim of the school is to satisfy the social and academic needs of children in the Upper Rhondda.

[citation needed] The curriculum offers opportunities to study subjects in which pupils have a particular interest and aptitude.

Pupils are placed in broad ability bands based on assessments from Primary schools they have attended.

It offers French and Spanish as modern foreign languages, and Welsh and English as compulsory subjects for all pre-A level students.

Other new courses on offer to pupils in the Sixth Form include Politics, Psychology, and Law and Electronics, as well as vocational subjects such as Hairdressing in the school's on site salon.

The performances are listed below: The following activities take place daily within the school: Alumni are known as "Old Phoenicians" ("OPs") and are entitled to dine at High Table two times each term.

Prefect alumni are called "Luciferians" and have a right of audience that allows them to schedule to speak at one school assembly per year.

A representative is chosen to approach the President and the following dialogue is acted out: In 1985 three OPs were arrested without charge after destroying several optics in a pub in Treorchy.

This led one of the guests, Viscount Tonypandy (himself not an OP), to denounce the alumni organisation and nickname it the "Bullingdon Boyos".

At the start of KS4 pupils are separated into one of two bands based on their maths, English and science abilities (determined throughout KS3).