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Location: Nevendon School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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The Nevendon County Primary School opened around 1926 as
a Council school. Situated in Burnt Mills Road, it replaced an earlier school which stood in
the same road that was built around 1886. During the second world war air-raid shelters were constructed within the school grounds. In the 1950s as development of Basildon New Town got under way the school was used as an overflow to cater for a large contingent of children moving into the newly completed housing estates in Fryerns. The school was all on one level and of a traditional design. Girls and Infants were known to use a separate entrance from the boys and a large playing field to the rear of the school was used for sporting events. There was no swimming pool though trips to a pool in Hutton took place before Gloucester Park opened in the late 1960s. An outside feature was the toilet block built adjacent to the school field. The school did provide its own meals cooked in the schools' in-house kitchen. By the late 1960s the facilities at the school were considered primitive and in protest a Parents Association action group was formed in 1970 with the aim of lobbying the Basildon Education Committee into providing indoor toilets, safety barriers and a school hall. Pupil numbers at the turn of the decade stood at around 280. A new portacabin classroom was later provided which became class 3 though the hut, which served as a dining hall was still in use in 1970. The school closed in 1983 due to falling pupil numbers. Following closure the building found use as a polling station during elections, a use it may have provided when it was open. The playing fields have now been built over and the school has now found an alternate use as the Basildon Information and Technology Education Centre. Former teachers' at the school include: Mr Budgeon, Mr Jenkins, Miss Brett, Miss Burles, who also played the piano, Mrs Priddle, Mr Tear (Headmaster?), Mrs Black, Mrs Walker, Mrs Bell, Mrs Curzon, Mrs Elvin, Miss Reece, and Mrs Colby, who was acting head in the schools' final years. Text written 2010 with revisions 2010-2011. Copyright © 2010-2011, B. Cox - Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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