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On January 9th 1911 the long-awaited new school on the opposite side of Haydn Road from the Sherwood School was opened by Frederick Hemming, the first Headmaster. The Mayor of Nottingham, Sir Edward Fraser, told the 364 children to “be worthy of their beautiful new school” but sadly it was too small. By 1912 there were many classes with 60 pupils and some had to be transferred to Carrington School. Those who remained at Haydn spent all their lives there until they left at the age of fourteen.
Haydn Road Primary School
Carrington School, Claremont Road
During the First World war children were closely allied with the war effort. The older boys were regularly practising drill and going on route marches, and in one year the girls made 1500 sandbags and 1100 grenade bags. Jingoism was rampant in the early days and on Empire Day 1915 over 1000 children were on parade in the playground, with many parents proudly watching. Carrington School became a military hospital so Carrington Children use Haydn School, which resulted in half-time schooling for all. By 1916 there were only two men left on the staff. When peace finally came it was marred by the flue pandemic of 1918 which closed the school for three weeks, along with other schools in Nottingham. It was closed again at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 because of the fear of air raids, and was not fully opened again until air raid shelters had been built.
World War One: Carrington School used as a military hospital
Much later, in 1971, the school was re-organised and became Haydn Primary School, once again with one Headmaster. Due to the number of children, however, the old Sherwood Board School building still had to be used for classes, just as it had been in 1911.
History of Sherwood: A Nottingham Suburb
Terry Fry, 1989 pp 41, 42