Schools
schoolsIn the week that most schools across the country are finally re-opening, we are starting a new online exhibition about Plymouth Schools.
Over the next two months we will featuring some schools that disappeared before the Second World War, some that have been reborn and others that are still educating the children of today. We hope that you will find the exhibition educational and, perhaps, a little nostalgic.
We also wish all of the pupils that are returning this week a safe and rewarding experience.
Open Air schools were an innovative idea that started in Germany and quickly spread to other countries.
In Plymouth Little Efford House was chosen as a suitable site for an open air school because of its rural setting.
A second site was chosen soon after, known as Mount Tamar Open Air School, but the two were amalgamated after the war.
Our next school no longer exists as the school I remember during my childhood. That school was Oxford Street Primary School. During the 1970's a decision was taken that this lovely old Victorian building needed to be replaced by a more modern design and so, in 1983/4, the school reopened under a new name, Pilgrim Primary School.