History of schools on the Woodville site

main source: 'OF GOOD REPORT' by Linda Heath
Leatherhead & District Local History Society (1986)

1913 Two new schools were completed in Kingston Road.

The County Upper Mixed Senior School was housed in the larger building, under Mr Burgess.

The County Infants' School was housed in the smaller building, under the long serving Miss Morley.

The original County Upper Mixed Senior School (the 'larger building')

June 1926 As a result of All Saints' becoming a Junior and Infants' School the County Infants' School closed. The building was taken over by the expanding County Senior School.

However, before long, the population increase in the Kingston Road area made it impossible for All Saints' to cope - All Saints' Church Hall was used as a classroom for a time.

No progress on resolving this unsatisfactory state of affairs had been taken by the time World War II began in 1939.

The original County Infants School building (the 'smaller building')

1945 The County Senior School, which by now was also using several Horsa Huts erected by Prisoners of War, became known as Leatherhead County Secondary School. Plans were made for a new school to be built for it on a site in Dilston Road.

By 1953 part of the Dilston Road complex had been completed and most of the Secondary School moved out to become the new Therfield School.

1st September 1953 All Saints' Junior School was now bursting at the seams.

This was resolved by making it an Infants' School, the Junior School transferring to the smaller of the the two former County Secondary School buildings on the Kingston Road/Woodvill* Road site.

The Junior School was named the County Primary Junior Mixed School.

*[There has always been an inconsistency between the spelling of the road name and the name of the school].

All Saints' Infants' School: now a Community Centre

7th September 1976 The rest of the Secondary School moved out to the Therfield School site.

In line with the Plowden Report recommendations on the age of transfer, the All Saints' and Poplar Road Schools became Church of England First Schools.

The whole Kingston Road/Woodvill Road site was renamed the Woodville County Middle School.

1993 Having been among the last Education Authorities to adopt the Plowden Report First and Middle School recommendations, Surrey was also among the last to revert to making the ages of transfer 7 and 11.

Woodville now became The Woodville School, a Surrey County Junior School.

1993 The larger and smaller buildings were linked, incorporating a splendid new hall complete with gym fittings.

This is capable of holding 400 and has a kitchen and toilets, making it suitable for public events.

By artful design the corridor through the hall was opened and extended to form a stage.

The old main hall has been converted into a Library.

The new hall on the right and the rest of the link between the original main buildings on the left, on a dull day.