Schools

   Conisbrough Balby Street

   Conisbrough Ivanhoe Junior School

   Conisbrough Morley Place Junior School

   Conisbrough Pennine View School

   Conisbrough Rowena Nursery & Infants School

   Conisbrough Secondary School – History

   Conisbrough Secondary School – Log Book

   Conisbrough Station Road Junior School

   DeWarenne Academy

   DeWarenne Academy

   Morley Place School Log 1873 to 1906

   Morley Place School Log 1907 to 1926

   School Pageant at the Castle

1880   Oct Conisborough School Board – Attendance Officer’s Salary

1881   Mar Conisborough School Board – Staff and Salary Reduction

1885   Oct Conisborough School Board – New Girl’s Mistress – Tenders for Partition Wall

1887   Oct Ambulance Class to be Held

1887   Oct Denaby Main – 1st Ambulance Class

1887   Oct Formation of an Ambulance Class At Denaby Main

1888   Jan Denaby Main Infant School Concert

1888   Nov School Attendance Case from Conisborough

1888   Dec Board School Concert at Conisborough

1889   Dec An Evening with the Children at Denaby

1891   Apr St. John Ambulance Association – Denaby Main Colliery Class.

1891   Dec Conisborough School Board

1891   Dec Non-Attendance.

1893   Jan Conisborough School Board – Attendance – New Teachers – New Desks

1894   Feb Attendance Cases

1894   Feb Conisborough Notes – Vicar – School Board – Station Inn

1894   Feb Conisbro’ School Board.

1897   Aug Conisborough School Board – Examinations – Cleaning – Inspector

1897   Aug Conisborough School Board – Land – Deaf & Dumb

1897   Nov Conisborough School Board.

1898   Mar Conisbro’ School Board – Attendance Officer’s Salary – Irate Parent

1898   May Conisborough School Board – New Schools – Appeal To Parents – Urban Powers Question.

1898   Sep Conisbro’ School Board.

1898   Sep Technical Education at Denaby Main – Coal Mining Lecture.

1898   Oct Conisborough Notes – Evening Classes – Baptist Chapel – Coloured Clay Pipes

1898   Oct Conisborough School Board – Caretaker’s Wages – Precept Needed

1898   Nov Conisbro’ School Board

1898   Dec First Class Certificates

1899   Mar Conisbro’ School Board.

1899   Jul Conisbro’ School Board Election – Liberal Victory.

1899   Oct Conisborough School Board.

1900   May Conisborough School Board – The Clerkship

1900   Sep Conisborough School Board – Tenders for New Schools

1900   Dec The New Schools – Comment

1900   Dec The New Schools. – A Heated Discussion.

1901   Jan Conisborough School Board.

1901   Apr Conisborough School Board – The Blind Boy, Precept, Clerk’s Extra Work

1901   Jun Conisborough School Board – New Desks – The Blind Boy – The New Act

1901   Jun Conisborough School Board – New Schools – Overcrowding – Blind Boy – Government Reports

1901   Jul Conisborough School Board – Election – Candidates

1901   Jul Conisborough School Board – Election – Results

1901   Jul Conisborough School Board – Treatment of truants – Furnishing of New Schools.

1901   Aug First Meeting of Newly Formed School Board

1901   Sep Conisborough School Board – The Price of Water – The New Schools

1902   Aug Conisborough School Board

1902   Sep Conisboro ‘ School Board – Presence of a Woman

1907   Jul Conisborough Education Subcommittee – The New School Site.

1909   Jan New School for Conisborough.

1909   Sep Denaby Notes – Cadet Corps – School News

1909   Sep Teachers’ Difficulties.

1910   Sep Conisboro’ Evening Classes

1910   Oct Neglectful Denaby Main Parents

1911   Mar Denaby Developing – New Elementary School to be Opened To-Day.

1911   Apr A Conisboro’ Canard – Baseless Report Contradicted – School Playground Occurrence

1911   Apr New School for Denaby – A Handsome Building – County Council’s Good Bargain.

1912   Jun Denaby Schoolgirl’s Record (picture)

1913   Jan Resignation of Mrs. Kaye Of Old Denaby

1913   Feb Mrs Kaye – Old Denaby School Headmistress

1913   Feb A Veteran Teacher – Dr. Lang’s Tribute to Mrs. Kaye, Denaby.

1913   Mar A Great Leader

1919   Feb Conisborough Schools Closed.

1920   Jan Set Court At Defiance. – Parents Ordered to Send Children to School.

1922   Jun Former Station Road Headmaster Dies (picture)

1927   Oct Swimming – Two Ties for Conisborough Schools Shield.

1928   Apr Choirmaster – Presentation to Mr. G. V. Smith.

1928   Jun Denaby Mother Resents School-Master’s Rebuke – Slapped His Face.

1928   Sep A Fine Swimming Team (picture)

1928   Sep The Diver (picture)

1928   Dec New Headmaster (picture)

1929   Apr Conisborough Middle School (picture)

1929   May The New Middle School

1929   Jun New Middle School At Conisboro’ : The “Quad’ (picture)

1929   Nov New Morley Place Headmaster

1930   Mar Conisborough Arts and Crafts (picture)

1930   Oct Denaby School Gala .

1930   Oct Denaby Swimming Gala (picture)

1930   Oct Gallant Girls. (picture)

1930   Nov Denaby Folk Dancers (picture)

1930   Dec School Concert – “House Plays”

1931   Mar Handicraft for Women (picture)

1931   Mar The School “Smithy” (picture)

1931   Oct Conisboro’ Gala – Triumph for Middle School – Station Road Girl’s “Solo” Feats

1932   Mar Denaby School Gutted – Shock for Rossington Street Residents (picture)

1932   Apr Keen Racing at Denaby (picture)

1932   Aug Conisborough Notes – Swimming Certs – Public Conveniences – Privy Middens

1932   Sep A Coming Champion

1932   Sep A School’s Champion (picture)

1932   Oct A Coming Champion (picture)

1932   Oct School’s Champions  (picture)

1932   Nov Headmistress’s Farewell Prize Day

1937   Aug £1,000 a Year Required – Cost of School Extensions at Denaby

1937   Oct Poor Attendance at Schools – Ratepayers Suffer

1937   Dec Denaby Loss of Good Friend

1938   Feb Disasterous Fire – Children Calmly Led From School (pictures)

1938   Feb Disastrous  Fire  At Confectionery Warehouse Gutted – School & House Endangered (picture)

1938   Feb Playing Cards on School Roof – Gamblers’ Damage at Denaby

1938   Mar Don Quixote – Sancho and The Ass.

1938   Mar Don Quixote at Conisborough Senior School (picture)

1938   May Name for New School – Conisborough Committee Choose “Ivanhoe”

1938   Sep Ivanhoe School

1938   Sep School Children greet Queen Mary (picture)

1938   Oct Conisbrough Senior Girls School Prizegiving

1938   Dec School Leavers at Work

1938   Dec Race Week Holiday – Pros and Cons at Conisborough

1939   Mar Conisborough School Operetta – “Dickon the Bedlam” (picture)

1939   May Conisborough Station Road School May Queen (picture)

1939   Jun Conisborough Modern School Girls (picture)

1939   Jun Whitsun Sunday School Queen

1939   Jul Conisborough Modern School Party

1939   Aug Denaby Schoolmasters – 111 Years Service (picture)

1940   Apr Obituary – Former Station Road Headmaster

1940   Nov New Headmaster With Cricket and Football Connections

1941   Mar Children’s Day – Parents Impressed at Conisborough

1941   May Evening Institute – Successful Season

1941   May Modern School Governors

1941   Jul Modern School Governors – Scabies in School, Dig for Victory

1941   Sep Evening Classes at Rossington Street

1942   Feb Modern School Governors

1942   Jul School Holidays

1942   Sep Objection to “Private” Letters – A.C.C. Issue at Conisbrough

1942   Nov Conisbrough Education Committee

1942   Nov School Gardeners.

1946   Feb Conisbrough Modern School – Aladdin (picture)

1947   Oct Morley Place Infants’ School – Teachers Leaving (picture)

1947   Nov Conference Issue – Suggestions Considered At Conisbrough

1947   Nov Conisbrough School Headship

1948   Apr Double Arabesque (picture)

1948   May Conisbrough School Experiment – Boys Learn About Land – Farming For Miners Sons

1948   May Study in Expressions (picture)

1948   Dec ” Ivanhoe ” Girls from Ivanhoe Town (picture)

1949 50 May Pageantry at Denaby (picture)

1949   Feb  New Headmistress (picture)

1949   Mar School Retirement Presentation (picture)

1949   Apr Senior Assistant Retires

1949   May Balby Street Junior School Queen

1949   Oct Conisbrough Station Road School Harvest Festival (picture)

1949   Oct Station Road School Harvest Festival (picture)

1949   Nov For Huntingdon (picture)

1949   Dec Denaby Balby Street School Children’s Concert (picture)

1950   Mar New Denaby “Head”

1950   Mar School Overcrowding – Conisbrough Hut Urgency

1950   Apr Balby Street School Queen

1950   Apr Conisbrough Modern School – “The Pedlar”

1950   May Old Denaby School Queen (picture)

1950   Jun Twelve Denaby Scholars are Going to Town

1950   Jun Visit of Fairy Godmother

1950   Jul Change of Site For New Infants’ School at Conisbro’

1950   Jul One Teacher for Old Denaby – Don Valley Executive Decision

1950   Jul Conisbrough Dance Classes “Cheap Evenings Out “

1950   Jul Denaby Flower Queen- Yesterday’s School Ceremony

1950   Jul Evening Institute Arts and Crafts Exhibition (picture)

1950   Jul Students Up In Arms – Seething” after Dance Class Comments (picture)

1950   Jul To France Again – Another Conisbrough Excursion

1950   Jul No Domestic Science Mistress – Conisbrough’s Country-wide Search.

1950   Oct School Visit to Printing Works (picture)

1950   Oct Theory and Practice – Conisbrough Visit for Bolton Girls

1950   Nov Craggs, Castle and Priory – Conisbrough Schools’ New Names ?

1950   Nov Measles Epidemic Affects Schools

1950   Dec “Dickon” In Trouble (picture)

1951   Jun Balby Street Junior School Festival Queen (picture)

1951   Jun Denaby Rossington Street School Queen (picture)

1951   Jun Don and Dearne Schools Sports (picture)

1951   Jul Rossington Street School Art (picture)

1951   Jul School in Miniature – Boys make Model of new Neighbour (picture)

1951   Oct Station Road School Jubilee Tea-Party (picture)

1951   Oct The Harvest Story

1951   Dec Denaby Balby Street Infants’ School Concert (picture)

1953   May Balby Street Flower Queen

1955   Jul Conisbrough News – Summer fair (pictures) – Stack Fire

1957   Aug Conisbrough Northcliffe Swimming Gala (picture)

1957   Oct Conisbrough Teacher To Move to the North Riding

1957   Nov 20 All  “Present” Congratulations at Conisbrough

1957   Nov School Stock Room Gutted Midnight Blaze at Denaby (pictures)

1957   Dec Conisbrough Northcliffe School Girls (picture)

1957   Dec Conlsbrough Rowena Infants’ School (picture)

1957   Dec Northcliffe Girls’ Modern School (picture)

1957   Dec Road Safety at Northcliffe (picture)

1958   Jan Religion in Schools – Headmaster from Conisbro’ on Importance

1958   Feb Attractive Careers Programme For Conisbrough School Leavers

1958   Feb Denaby Bell Has Tolled for Last Time (picture)

1958   Mar Bang Goes A Record ! Conisbrough Boy’s Success in Wombwell Event

1958   Apr Combined Junior Schools Choir from Denaby and Conisbrough (picture)

1958   Apr Recorder Group from Conisbrough Northcliffe Girls’ School (picture)

1958   May Conisbrough Schools Annual Festival

1958   May May Festivities – Delightful Old Denaby Programme

1958   May May Queen of Conisbrough Station Road

1958   May May Queen of Old Denaby -Making a Delightful Picture

1958   May Old Denaby Church of England School Dressed for May Celebrations

1958   May Station Road Infant’s School May Festivities

1958   May Station Road May Festivities

1958   May Station Road May Queen

1958   Jun Conisbrough Castle Mural

1958   Jul Conisbrough and Denaby Schools Arts and Crafts Exhibition (picture)

1958   Jul Conisbrough and Denaby Schools Arts and Crafts Exhibition (picture)

1958   Jul Conisbrough Northcliffe Girls’ Modern School Arts and Crafts (picture)

1958   Jul Conisbrough Northcliffe Girls’ Modern School Swimming Gala (picture)

1958   Jul Headmaster of Denaby St Albans Catholic School (picture)

1958   Jul Trip To China For Denaby Teacher

1958   Aug Conisbrough U.D.C. Schools Gala

1958   Oct Nautical Holiday – Holland Trip for Conisbrough Boys

1958   Nov Conisbrough “Short Cut” – School Governors to Close It

1958   Dec Conisbro Pupils  Making Metal Castings

1958   Dec Northcliffe Secondary School First year Christmas party (picture)

1959   Feb Long Wait For Hot Water For Conisbrough School Showers

1959   Mar Examination Success (picture)

1959   Apr Denaby Evening Institute’s Exhibition of Work (picture)

1959   Apr Three and a Half Years Unbroken Attendance

1959   May Attendants to Sunday School Queen.

1959   May Conisbrough Northcliffe Girl’s School Sports Day – A Good Jump (picture)

1959   May Conisbrough Northcliffe Girls School Sports Day (picture)

1959   May Denaby United Supporters Cup – Morley Place

1959   May Denaby United Supporters Cup – Presentation

1959   May Denaby United Supporters Cup – Rossington Street

1959   May Conisbrough Schools Basketball Team Plays In London.

1959   Jun Conisbrough Northcliffe Boys in Holland

1959   Jun Don and Dearne Inter-Schools Sports (picture)

1959   Jun Don and Dearne Inter-Schools Sports.

1959   Aug All Aboard for Scotland (picture)

1959   Nov Parents at Rossington Street School

1959   Dec “The Assassination of Lincoln”

1959   Dec Conisbrough Northcliffe Girls’ School Choir (picture)

1959   Dec Conisbrough Retirement  After 34 Years Teaching              

1959   Dec Conisbrough Station Road Infants School Party. (picture)

1959   Dec Denaby St. Alban’s Catholic School Team (picture)

1959   Dec Women Teacher Takes St. Alban’s to Success  – Trainer Best in the World

1960   Feb Northcliffe School Speech Day – Welcomes the Raising of School Age.

1960   Feb Preparing for a Career in a Practical Manner at Conisbrough (pictures)

1960   Mar Apprentice Course at Conisbrough

1960   Mar Conisbrough Headteacher Is Leaving

1960   Mar Conisbrough School Project Cut by £3,000

1960   Mar Conisbrough Student Gains Good Impression of Russia

1960   Apr Rumbler Was Missed – Peeling by Hand Caused Blisters in the Kitchen

1960   May Denaby Teacher Retiring after 38 Years

1960   Jun “It’s a Small War” – First Musical is a School Triumph (picture)

1960   Jul New “Reception” Room – It was “all their own.”

1960   Jul School Sports – St Albans (picture)

1960   Jul Station Road Summer Fair (pctures)

1960   Jul Teaching Post (picture)

1963   Mar Staff Shortage at Balby Street School

1964   Apr Back to Conisbrough to Teach (picture)

1964   Apr Morley Street School at Conisbrough Castle (picture)

1964   Sep Temporary Classrooms.

1965   Jan Northcliffe ‘High’ in the Forefront

1967   Apr Conisbrough Head to Visit Canada

1967   Sep 30 Foot Long Caravan Will Become Flat at Northcliffe High (picture)

1967   Sep At Denaby School.

1967   Sep Fifth Form Block – First of Its Kind in the Country (picture)

1967   Oct Conisbrough Northcliffe High School 5th Form (picture)

1967   Dec Denaby St. Alban’s Nativity play (picture)

1967   Dec Balby Street School Concert (picture)

1967   Dec Denaby Balby Street Infants Nativity (picture)

1968   Jan “Tufty Club” at Conisbrough Rowena School (pictures)

1968   Jan A “Big Move Up” – Conisbrough Man Head of Music at Danum Grammar

1968   Feb Conisbrough Northcliffe High School Speech Day Guests (picture)

1968   Feb Conisbrough Northcliffe High School Speech Day Prizewinners (picture)

1968   Mar New School Planned At Conisbrough

1968   Mar Proud Of Their Skill – Own Skis

1968   May French, Without Tears for Children, At Conisbrough

1968   May Sketching in the Churchyard (picture)

1968   Jun Denaby St. Alban’s School Fayre

1968   Jun Denaby St. John Cadet Band (picture)

1968   Jun Northcliffe High School Sports Day (picture)

1968   Jun Queen of Rowena is Crowned (picture)

1968   Jun Conisbrough Rowena Infants’ School Rose Queen (picture)

1968   Jul Conisbrough Morley Place School Sports

1968   Jul Denaby and Conisbrough Schools Gala at Denaby baths (picture)

1968   Jul Have Their Own Rabbits

1968   Jul Inter Schools Gala (picture)

1968   Jul  Morley Place School Sports (picture)

1968   Sep Conisbrough Rowena School Fashion Show

1968   Oct African Safari Thrilled Denaby Teacher

1968   Oct Denaby Rossington Street School (picture)

1968   Oct Unique Double At Mexborough (picture)

1968   Nov Canteen Retirement at Northcliffe Secondary School (picture)

1968   Nov Conisbrough Hit by School Cuts

1968   Dec Conisbrough Rowena Infants School Concert (picture)

1968   Dec Denaby St. Alban’s School Christmas Bazaar. (picture)

1968   Dec Ivanhoe Road Children’s Party (picture)

1968   Dec Ivanhoe School Christmas Party (picture)

1968   Dec Northcliffe High School Christmas Party (picture)

1968   Dec Rossington Street Infant Snow Queen & King (picture)

1968   Dec Rowena Infant School P.T.A. Christmas Social (picture)

1968   Dec Snow Queen of Balby Street infants’ School (picture)

1969   Jan They See How Their Local Paper is Run (pictures)

1969   Jan Morley Place Junior School on BBC Television (picture)

1969   Jan Young Musicians in the Making . . . (picture)

1969   Feb Japanese floral arrangement (picture)

1969   Feb Northcliffe High School Speech Day (picture)

1969   Feb Northcliffe High School Speech Day – Guest Speaker

1969   Mar Conisbrough Pageant

1969   Apr All from Bits and Pieces (picture)

1969   Apr No Room at School Means 30 May Lose up to a Year’s Education

1969   May What About Our Tennis?- Plea

1969   May Denaby Saint Alban School Weekend in London (picture)

1969   May Diocesan Girls Friendly Society Rally

1969   May School Governors Will Say ‘Thank You’ To Staff By Giving Them A Party.

1969   Jun Old Denaby Church of England School Queen.

1969   Jun Rowens Infants School Rose Queen

1969   Jul Conisbrough Girl Sets Up National Javelin Record (picture)

1969   Jul Conisbrough Northcliffe High School – Music In The Air.

1969   Jul Conisbrough Urban Council Swimming Gala (picture)

1969   Jul Denaby Baths Swimming Gala (picture)

1969   Jul Dress Rehersal For School Open Day. (picture)

1969   Jul Sports At Northcliffe High School. (picture)

1969   Aug Another Find For Local Students.

1969   Sep Happily Playing In The Sandpit. (picture)

1969   Sep Research Brings Nursery School Boost To Area (pictures)

1969   Nov Exchange Project an Educational Breakthrough

1969   Nov How to Get The Ship in The Bottle (picture)

1969   Nov New York Professor at Morley Place (picture)

1969   Nov Rossington Street P.T.A. Christmas Fayre (picture)

1969   Nov Three Ships in One Bottle (picture)

1969   Dec Denaby Rossington Street School Nativity (picture)

1970   Feb Conisbrough Nortcliffe School Retirement (picture)

1970   Feb Old Denaby & Rossington Street School Football Teams

1970   Feb Rossington Street School & Trip to Wembley Exhibition (pictures)

1970   Feb Their Ain Place

1970   Mar Denaby St. Alban’s School – “Come Follow Me,” (picture)

1970   Mar Secretary of State Visit to Northcliffe (picture)

1970   Mar The 500 Pupil School With 1,000 Scholars

1970   Apr Building Ships in Bottles.(picture)

1970   Apr Denaby St. Albans Junior School Passion Play (picture)

1970   May Farrier at Northcliffe

1970   May Morley Place at “The South Yorkshire Times”

1970   Jun Pilgrimage to Rome Made Possible by Schoolchildren & Staff

1970   Jun Sister Headmistress Retires (picture)

1970   Jul Children Filmed For Documentary