Holt Primary School, Holt

From 1936 the Congregational and Church schools worked in conjunction but each still maintained a school management board, as they were individually responsible for their building. The infants were taught in the Congregational school and the juniors in the church school. The agreement of the merger was renewed every three years. In 1949 the merger was made permanent and the school became the only controlled church school in the diocese that was not a Church of England school. In 1950 the average attendance was 101 and this had risen to 116 by 1955. Both buildings continued to be used until 1962 when the first part of a new school was built in The Gravel for the Juniors. They left the former Church School but the Infants continued to be taught in the former Congregational School until April 1973, when extensions to the school at the Gravel were completed.

The church school was converted to domestic use and was first called Forster Cottage, after the Colonel Forster who had given the land in trust to St. Katharines’ for the building of the school. In 1975/6 the Congregational School was converted into the church hall of Holt United Reformed Church.

See also;
National School Holt
Congregational School, Holt