About Our School

Junction 35 M1		We are here
		Rotherham

The school is a square, red brick building erected in 1929 on a sloping hillside off the A629 and overlooking the attractive village of Thorpe Hesley. It has wide panoramic views of Wentworth, Scholes, and numerous monuments. It is within easy access of the M1 motorway.

It is a day primary mixed school for children of 7-11 years of age, currently having eight rooms used as classrooms in traditional form, all of which are furnished with modern tubular tables and chairs, tray units and storage cupboards. The corridor areas enclose a quadrangle that has a paved and grassed area with a pond. This area can be used by classes for Science, Art, Mathematics and recreational activities.

In addition to the classrooms, there is the School Hall, Library, I.C.T. Suite, Music Room and Educational Support Room. Outside, we have a brick built unit that comprises two classrooms.

Our vision for this school is

That Thorpe Hesley Junior School will be a safe and exciting place, where children will want to come every day;

It will be a place where adults and children will want to work;

Here, people of all ages will feel comfortable about expressing themselves, confident that their views are important and they are valued;

This will be a place of innovation to an excellent, all-round education and to reject those that are detrimental to it. Here people of all ages, especially young people, will be encouraged and supported to become valuable members of tomorrow’s society;

This vision shapes everything we do now and all those things we will do in the future, for the benefit of all people, of all ages, in this school.

“…the kind of people we would like our schoolchildren to become: people who wholeheartedly throw themselves into absorbing relationships and activities of all sorts – not just intellectual ones: caring citizens, good friends, lovers and work colleagues.!

Professor, John White, Institute of Education University of London

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