Message from the Principal

Why choose us for your child?

It is my pleasure to have served as Principal of Barnsley Academy since its Foundation in September 2006, and to have seen so much progress be made in a community which has always had the potential to achieve well.

We are about knowing what we aspire to be and achieving or surpassing those aspirations.  We are about providing a consistent and happy place for children to learn and people to work.  We are about achieving the Best in Everyone.

In recent years we have seen a surge of students going on to university places, a rapid rise in exam grade outcomes and a massive change in our attitudes towards earning and towards each other.  For this I have to thank the exceptionally skilful and hardworking staff, both teaching and support teams, the positive support of parents and the Local Governing Board and most of all the students who have engaged with believing that achieving dreams is possible.

We intend to become rated as Outstanding.  That is the journey that we all must be focussed on if it is to be achieved.  Please join us if this sounds like the journey you wish to take too.