St Andrew’s Boys School in 1928.

Chesterton Schools, St Andrew’s School, Chesterton

History of Chesterton Schools

1901

A communication was received from the Board of Education, sanctioning the payment of £5 5s to the Chesterton National School on behalf of the Workhouse children attending there. The Board of Education, it was stated, would be prepared to give their certificate in future after the close of each school year on receiving the necessary particulars as to the average attendance of the Workhouse children, and the sum which was proposed to contribute towards the maintenance of the school.

Cambridge Daily News, 01 August 1901, 3.

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1913

Old Chesterton Boys’ School

G. G.Buck, master

 

Old Chesterton Girls’ School

Miss Townsend, mistress

 

Old Chesterton Infants’ School

Miss Bond, mistress

The teacher in the photo is Miss M Hunneybun.

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1920s

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1939

The schools in  Cambridge took on a  evacuees children from London following the outbreak of the Second World War. Chesterton School was one such place that organised arrivals and provided them with an education.

Cambridge Daily News, 1 September 1939, 1.

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25 November 1947
At the concert of St Andrew’s church school, Chesterton the Vicar said that the school needed modernising. “We want new class rooms, an assembly hall, better accommodation for the staff and cloak rooms etc. Under the new development plan which has been passed the school would be entirely pulled down and rebuilt on the same site for £60 or £70,000. The manager do not agree”, he declared, “they think it is a financial extravagance and believe everything that is necessary could be done for a third of that cost”. The speaker concluded that modernisation could be carried out in 50 or 100 years’ time, the school would still be there growing and developing and would show “a little of the history of England”

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Chesterton Scrapbook, reference 1947 11 25.

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2 January 1975
A petition calling for the replacement of the hundred-year-old St Andrew’s school, Chesterton, is to be presented to a Minister at the Department of Education. Efforts to get the school replaced have been going on for at least ten years. They were lent greater urgency when, last October, a young teacher was injured by a lump of plaster falling from the ceiling of one of the classrooms. Children at the school make a ten-minute walk along a dangerous road to go to lunch each day at the Shirley School in Green End Road

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Chesterton Scrapbook, reference 1975 01 02.

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The school closed in 1981 and the site was developed for housing