TEACHERS at Brecon High School have staged six one day strikes in a row over compulsory redundancies.

The school has said it is able to deliver its full curriculum while, from September 2011, reducing its total teaching staff of 45 by six, including two compulsory redundancies.

We've laid out an easy to follow history of the dispute.

Autumn 2010: Teachers at Brecon High School are told the school is seeking to make 2.6 teaching posts redundant as it bids to reduce a budget deficit, predicted to reach £600,000.

January 27, 2010: The Brecon & Radnor Express reveals as many as 15 teachers at four secondary schools across Breconshire could be facing redundancy.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) says as many as six jobs at Brecon High School are at risk. It refuses to rule out taking strike action in the face of redundancies.

Powys County Council says schools are facing serious challenges because of falling school numbers and significant pressure on budgets.

March 17: 28 members of the NASUWT teaching union at Brecon High School stage the first of six one day strikes and picket the school which is closed to all pupils other than sixth formers.

NASUWT claims teachers are being forced to 'pay the price' of the school's financial mismanagement and said it wanted to negotiate a solution that didn't require compulsory redundancies. It also claims the school held a £100,000 surplus just four years ago.

Chair of the school governors, Paul Martin says the school is 'dismayed' and 'disappointed' at the strike, but will do 'everything it can' to minimise disruption to pupils.

March 30: NASUWT members man the picket lines again, the second and third strike days are held consecutively.

Paul Martin condemns the union as 'cavalier' and claims: "Their selfish stance will do nothing to help the school address the financial pressures that it and many others in the county are facing."

It's also revealed that compulsory redundancies have been reduced from six to two.

NASUWT's Wales organiser Rex Phillips says the school should now accept it's demand that the two further teaching posts are reduced over the next two to three years.

He claimed this met proposals announced by the school in October to reduce staff by 2.6 full time equivalent posts but claimed Powys County Council had applied pressure for the school to further reduce its staffing costs.

April 1: Two experienced teachers are told they have been selected for compulsory redundancies.

It is later confirmed that headteacher Ingrid Gallagher was away from the school at the time for personal reasons.

April 4: Sixth form students leave a whole school assembly en mass in protest at the decision to make the two teachers redundant. The students later return to their lessons.

April 5: NASUWT national president John Rimmer joins teachers on the picket line outside the school. They are staging a fourth one day strike, and the first of three consecutive strike days, with the school again closed to the majority of pupils.

April 7: The Brecon & Radnor Express exclusively reveals the two teachers selected for compulsory redundancy had been pulled out of their Friday afternoon lessons to be told they had lost their jobs.

An outraged John Rimmer says of the school's senior leadership: "They didn't have a scythe and black coat, but they may as well have done."

Members of the NUT at the school also join the one day strike.

NASUWT's Rex Phillips writes an open letter to parents to counter what he calls an attempt by the school to "discredit the action taken by our members."

He also tells The Brecon & Radnor Express that Powys County Council has admitted that it had applied pressure on the school to seek redundancies above the 2.6 posts sought in the autumn.

It is later confirmed the Paul Martin has tended his resignation as chair of governors, though he will remain on the governing body.

School pupils stage a protest in Brecon town centre demonstrating their support for their teachers and condemning the compulsory redundancies.

April 11: A parents group hand a 305 signature petition to the school calling for a public meeting to discuss the reasons behind the deficit and redundancies. They say they also want assurances that education won't be affected by a reduction in the teaching staff.

April 14: County Councillor David Meredith, who is nominated to take over as chair of governors, says the school is able to deliver its curriculum and timetable with a reduced teaching staff from September.

In contrast to Paul Martin, Cllr Meredith refuses to condemn teachers for taking strike action.

The school's governing body meets with officers from Powys County Council.

April 15: It is confirmed that headteacher Ingrid Gallagher has been suspended. Powys County Council says it is a 'neutral' act to allow an investigation to take place.

April 21: The Brecon & Radnor Express reveals that non teaching staff at the school had raised concerns over its management and that teachers had passed a vote of no confidence in the head just days before her suspension.

It is also confirmed the two teachers selected for compulsory redundancy have won a reprieve.