‘The Church House’ dates from around the 1550’s and is said to be one of the oldest school buildings in Devon. It was originally used as a Poorhouse to the Parish, but in 1818 it was recorded that two rooms were let out as a ‘National School’ with about 100 pupils.

The school was re-furbished to house 4 classrooms, a hall and a library. Although the playground was small, we had a lovely court space to play games as well as climbing equipment and ‘Hobbit’ land to explore. The school also has its own field and we visit Methley Meadow for our Forest School sessions.

Nowadays, we are based in Port-a-cabins on Kenton Playing Fields due to flooding of ‘The Church House’. We have 4 lovely classrooms, an amazing playground as well as easy access to the field during the day. At Kenton Primary School, we also have an outside play area, filled with lots of different toys, available for our Nursery and EYFS children. Even though we are no longer based at ‘The Church House’, we carry the history of Kenton Primary School with us, showing the students different aspects of our journey.