200th birthday parade for Oundle CE Primary School

Archived press release

Date Published: 13/10/11

Oundle CE Primary School is to hold two Open Days this autumn amid celebrations to mark 200 years of primary education in the town.

Parents and carers are being invited to the school in Milton Road on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 9th November 2011 between 1.30pm and 3pm to see for themselves exactly why the church school has been rated outstanding by both Ofsted and Peterborough Diocese.

Local MP Louise Mensch will visit the school on Friday 4th November as children and staff celebrate the time when learning first began in the town in 1811 – a year when Spencer Percival was in Downing Street and Napoleon was in charge of France.

The first classroom was established in a barn loft in what is now part of the Talbot Hotel which had been rented from the town's famous brewer John Smith who owned the Talbot. The children were subsequently moved to the present site in 1842.