St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School opened on Monday 22nd August 1938 a short time before the outbreak of World War II.

Originally what is now our school hall was then the Church, and its sanctuary was where the stage is now. There were 5 classrooms to take two hundred and fifty pupils, although only fifty five pupils registered on that first day. Toilets were in a separate unheated building alongside the school that usually froze up in the winter that occasionally led to the closure of the school.