Welcome to the Silkstone Primary School web site.

We are a 210 place Primary School serving the village community of Silkstone just outside Barnsley.

We hope you enjoy finding out about our school through these pages and we welcome any feedback you might have – our details can be found on the contact us page.

A Message from the Headteacher

Welcome to the Silkstone Primary School web site. We hope you enjoy your visit.

These are exciting times for our school. We have just had a three classroom extension added to our existing building. This has enabled us to bring class 4 who were taught in the mobile classroom across to the main school building, and allowed us to convert two of our smaller classrooms into a new staffroom and computer suite. As well as this, classes 5 and 6 who are in the older part of the building have had their rooms refurbished and extended and our administration rooms have been extended also. So almost every room in the school has been modernised or is brand new and we are left with a wonderful resource in which to learn and teach.
Enjoy your visit, have a good look around, and do give us any feedback you may have.

Kind regards,
Simon Barber
Headteacher

Bretton Park Orienteering

KS2 had a super day out at Bretton Hall Sculpture Park. They took five first places in the eight sections they had entered. Photographs are in the gallery below.

Full results can be found by following the link provided.

Well done to everyone who took part.

Bretton Park Results

Important Notice - 7th May

Dear Parents,                                                                               

I am writing to let you know that from this month our school has been designated a National Support School.

As you will all know our school was graded as outstanding by OFSTED in November 2008. The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) oversees a whole range of educational policy about school leadership nationally, and one of their initiatives has been to recruit and appoint National Leaders of Education (headteachers) with their schools, known as National Support Schools.

The basic philosophy is that because our school is outstanding, we can offer support and guidance to schools that are in difficulty

The criteria to be selected for this role are very high. Schools need to demonstrate that they are outstanding overall, have outstanding leadership and management, and that they have outstanding capacity to improve. Their results have to be outstanding, particularly in terms of achievement – the value that is added to children from a measured base line, and they need to demonstrate that they have worked successfully with other schools in the past.

It is important for you to be assured that this initiative will have a positive affect your child’s education. Things in our school will continue as normal, but from time to time we may have teachers from other schools visiting our school, and a member of staff may visit their school in return. This initiative is very much about schools helping schools for the good of all. The NCSL web site is very informative if you would like to find out more about the role. (www.ncsl.org.uk/nle)

As a school we are delighted to have achieved this status. We are the first school in Barnsley to gain it, and there are only 300 schools in the country to have achieved it. This places our school at the forefront of leadership development nationally, and will allow us to have some influence on education policy in the future. It is a huge achievement.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards

Mr S Barber

Headteacher

Silkstone Mini Shuffle & Orienteering at Bretton Hall

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Site Contents - click here

	Newsletter The latest schools newsletter containing up-to-date information & news.
	About Us Find out about our school, our aims and meet our staff.
	Prospectus Online and downloadable versions of our prospectus can be read here.
	Gallery Examples of children's work and photos of recent trips and events are in these pages.
	Tour Have a quick look around our school here and see photos of our classes and grounds.
	Newsletter General news & information. An archive of old letters can be found here, too.
	Classes See children’s work and find out about their classes in the Class Pages area.
	Clubs We are proud of the clubs children in our school can join - read about them here.
	Children's Area Children! Get linked to some amazing web sites by visiting the children’s area!
	PTA We're fortunate to have an active, enthusiastic parent teachers association - why not join us?
	Links This section contains general links which may be of interest to parents.
	Contact Us Need to get in touch? All our details, including a map of how to get here are on this page.
	Vacancies Any staff vacancies at the school can be found here. Updated regularly.
	Staff Pages This section is for members of staff; a password is needed to view its contents.

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