About Our School
1958 class photo. For more vintage pictures, click here
St. Edward’s Catholic Primary School is a voluntary aided Primary School
which was opened on the Feast of St. Edward – October 13th, in 1851.
The original school, consisting of three classrooms, was built by the
Sisters of Mercy to educate needy children in the area.
With the coming of the Railway and influx of labourers into the neighbourhood the numbers of children increased. Despite the need for more classrooms, the Sisters could not afford to extend the school until some of the Convent grounds were requisitioned for the building of Marylebone Station in 1897.
The school was then extended to seven classrooms.
During WW2 a bomb destroyed the row of houses along Lisson Grove, enabling the school to create the playground we have today.
Work on the new classrooms began in 1961, part of the old school being incorporated into the new school which brought it to twelve classes (eight Junior and three Infants and a Nursery Class). 1994 saw the building of a new classroom for Year 1 pupils.
In September 1998 St. Edward’s amalgamated with Tyburn Infants, a one form entry infant school whose children always attended St. Edward’s junior classes.
To allow pupils to be taught on one site, three further classes known as the Tyburn Block, were built in 1999.
All pupils have been taught at one site since then.
In 2014 work commenced on converting the large basement area to new classrooms and ICT suite, and this incredible space was formally opened by Cardinal Vincent Nichols in November 2015. Currently the new space provides a dedicated area for year 6, as they prepare for their SAT's.
The School was inspected by Ofsted in March 2009 by a team of three inspectors.
The inspectors judged that, “St. Edward’s is a good school with outstanding features”.
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Convent
The Quiet Zone, KS1 playground
Convent