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Ernesettle Infant and Junior Schools share a building at Biggin Hill, Ernesettle, Plymouth. A temporary school, curiously known as the Ernesettle Transit School, was opened on June 9th 1949 in two former Air Training Corps huts at Biggin Hill, Plymouth. Work started on the permanent building in October 1949. On September 10th 1952 seventy pupils were transferred to the new premises, although only two classrooms had been completed. The remainder of the building was duly finished and on September 8th 1952 Ernesettle Primary School opened properly. In 1955 the Headmistress of the infant school was Miss D M Gunn and the Headmaster of the junior school was Mr W Allen. Ernesettle Primary School was one of ten new schools in Plymouth declared officially open by the Minister of Education, the Right Honourable Sir David Mcadam Eccles KCVO MP, on Friday June 15th 1956. The ceremony was actually held at the then Penlee Secondary Modern School, at Stoke, and was in the presence of the Deputy Lord Mayor, Alderman T H Watkins, and the Director of Education, Doctor Andrew Scotland. The School had accommodation for 560 pupils at that time. No further information at present.
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