Hoyland Springwood Primary School

Our School

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Our Mission 

Hoyland Springwood Primary School is a lively and forward looking school which aims to create a school community with a positive, calm and caring atmosphere in which children learn to value themselves, each other and the world in which they live.

Equal opportunities which reflect individual emotional, social, intellectual and physical needs are provided for each pupil irrespective of gender, ability or race and positive attitudes towards learning are developed.

Each individual is encouraged to reach her / his full potential through quality first hand experiences and a broad, balanced and meaningful curriculum which is carefully planned to ensure continuity and progression in learning.

There is a strong emphasis placed on high standards of work, of consideration for others, of self-confidence, self discipline, trust and reliability amongst all members of the school community.

The school environment is warm, welcoming and healthy and reflects and promotes the quality in which the school believes.  Ownership of the school, of its environment and of its beliefs rests with all who are involved with it, this being felt critical for the promotion of such quality.

The school endeavours to give its pupils a wide range of quality experiences which cover not only the demands of the National Curriculum but also those of the individual, of society and of future employers.

Close relationships with parents are forged to enable their effective involvement in the home – school partnership which is vital to a child’s education.

The school has a high profile history of providing innovative experiences for its pupils.  Such experiences have involved working with builders Tay Homes in the development of a housing estate, the setting up of “SpringPrint” a design and printing company which uses modern technology to design and print a range of products and the use of fax and electronic mail to correspond with, interrogate, understand work collaboratively with people in other areas of Britain as well as in other countries.

Pupils of the school have appeared on television on a number of occasions, having filmed in Castleton for a nationally networked schools programme “Children of Winter”, based on a book by Bertie Doherty, which told the story of The Plague.  Children from the school, together with Eeyore the late school pet rabbit, appeared on Yorkshire TV’s Calendar News Magazine programme.  More recently a group of our children appeared on television during a series of 10-minute features on the Worbsrough Mystery Plays broadcast by Yorkshire Television.  The school has also featured widely on both local and national radio and has a long history of featuring in local and national newspapers.

The school has been the organising body of the Barnsley Schools Writers In Residence Project, a project which has introduced professional writers into the classrooms of 70% of Barnsley’s schools, and has also coordinated the national and international Fax ‘n Fiction project “Views” which introduced the sharing of fax transmitted views from individuals across an extensive geographic base. The school is also participating in E-Mail projects with other schools both in Great Britain and beyond.

The school was the pilot school for an across Barnsley project, understood to be the first of its kind in Britain, which involved both visual and written artists working together to create works of art within school grounds.  The result of the pilot project, Jason Thomson and Ian McMillan’s “Eeyore” can be seen within the school grounds.

Other developments have included the coordination of the wartime memories of Hoyland folk to write and produce “Billy Blackout’s Wartime Diary” a local history study with potential use for all of Hoyland’s schools, together with the writing of Hoyland’s very own Easter Mummers Play “Martha & The Milton Monster” another local study based on characters from Hoyland’s folklore.