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Darfield Foulstone School of Creative Arts

Field	Value
name	Darfield Foulstone School Of Creative Arts
image	The end is nigh (geograph 3301297).jpg
caption	The school after closure
coordinates
motto	Positive Foulstone, Moving Forward, Learning Together
established	1933
closed	2012
type	Secondary School
specialist	Creative Arts
address	Nanny Marr Road
city	Darfield
Barnsley
county	South Yorkshire
country	England
postcode	S73 9AB
local_authority	Barnsley
gender	Mixed

Barnsley Darfield Foulstone School of Creative Arts was a comprehensive school located in the village of Darfield, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

It was a specialist creative arts school, with approximately 900 pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 before closure.

History

The Foulstone Modern School was built on land in the centre of Darfield, previously occupied by a children's recreation ground and by well-cultivated allotments, running alongside of Nanny Marr Road. It was built in the late 1930s and officially opened by R. A. (Rab) Butler in the early war years.

The aim of the school was to provide a good standard of secondary education for local children aged 11 to 16. A lot has been written about the standard and quality of secondary education in the 1930s; much appeared to revolve around the "11 plus exam", an examination taken by children aged 10/11 years old.

The school derived its name from Alderman T.H. (Tommy) Foulstone who was Darfield's representative on the West Riding County Council (headquarters at Wakefield); his special interest was education, standards for which he sought to increase at all levels.

The school formally closed in 2012, when it merged with Wombwell High School to form Netherwood Advanced Learning Centre (now Netherwood Academy) on a new site.

Specialism

As part of its creative arts specialism, the school was the host of the Barnsley Youth Theatre . There was also a dance school, "K.A.D.S", run by one of the school's dance teachers.

Adjoining the school was a CLC which had a subsequent auditorium, a professional recording studio, a cyber cafe, a MAC lab, and computer suites.

References

(29 March 2012). "Work on New Dearne Link Bridge Is Finished". Epworth Bells.

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