Mexborough & Swinton Times, August 28, 1936

Conisborough Senior Selective School
Increased from 400 pupils to 1000

Built at a cost of £25,000 the Conisborough Senior Selective School was opened in the middle of 1929.

Recent additions have been made at a cost of £9000 and the accommodation has been increased from 400 pupils to 1000.

The formal the opening will be on Saturday, September 5, but on Monday the whole of the school, no longer “selective” but embracing all scholars out there 11 years, came into use. All senior boys and girls (except Roman Catholics) now attend the senior school and other local schools become junior schools

The St Alban’s Roman Catholic school is not affected as the managers retained their rights as a non-provided school to keep all their senior scholars as in the past.

For four years the discussion on the organisation have gone on. And the local education committee achieved its objective in obtaining a brick building instead of the temporary extension in wood which the county committee contemplated for the senior school. The extensions will be opened by Mr W. M. Hyman, vice-chairman of the West Riding education committee, and includes nine additional classrooms, art rooms and a gymnasium. The reorganisation also brought with it a certain amount of disorganisation as it affected the whole urban area and the whole of Denaby, comprising about 100 teachers and 4500 children.

There has been considerable movement of staff, but all teachers have been retained with the exception of the head of one department. Alterations at the older schools are in hand and the children at the Rossington Street school are enjoying an extra week holiday as their school was not ready for the occupation on Monday. The extensive alterations being incomplete. About £2000 is to be expected at Morley Place and the alterations to Balby Street and Station Road schools will cost some hundreds of pounds. The temporary accommodation at the church hall was to have been given up, but the vicar received word on the last day of the school year that the building would again be required after the holiday. Similarly, Epworth Hall is being retained, but all but one of the army huts at Balby Street are being dispensed with the one retained been for use as a nursery class playroom.