Darfield Foulstone School of Creative Arts was a comprehensive school located in the village of Darfield,

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In N ...

. 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 Netherwood Academy (formerly Netherwood Advanced Learning Centre) is a secondary school located next to Netherwood Country Park, between Wombwell and Darfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The school was fo ...

) on a new site.

Specialism

As part of its creative arts specialism, the school was the host of th
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
CLC
which had a subsequent auditorium, a professional recording studio, a cyber cafe, a MAC lab, and computer suites.

References

External links

Darfield Foulstone School of Creative Arts

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darfield Foulstone School Of Creative Arts Defunct schools in Barnsley Educational institutions established in 1933 1933 establishments in England Educational institutions disestablished in 2012 2012 disestablishments in England Arts organizations established in 1933