Present) Lawrenny Avenue
Motto: ‘Veritas praevalebit’ (Latin for 'truth will prevail') School colours: Remained the same, although 'Jumpers' replaced 'Blazers' later
Badge: Essentially the same but with castle & wall replacing F.T.H.S. on bottom quarters
The Howard Gardens site was to be re-developed (now the campus of Cardiff Metropolitan University) and Fitzalan Technical High School acquired new premises on the present site in Lawrenny Avenue. It was opened on Tuesday 3 March 1964. Following the Education Reform Act of 1968 which replaced the existing tri-partite education system with Comprehensive education. In December 1967 the head master Harold C Eyre B.A. resigned after fifteen year with the school.
In January 1968 the school was renamed Fitzalan High School (dropping 'Technical') in its new form as a comprehensive school, under the new Headmaster Mr Peter L.Goble, M.A. It introduced a new school badge and motto ‘Veritas praevalebit’ (Latin for truth will prevail). The school became co-educational with around 400 boys and 150 girls, drawn from Ninian Park and Grangetown Schools.
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