Langtoft Primary School
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History
There has been schools in Langtoft for around about 250 years, but the first reference of the school was in 1776 when a school house was being re-roofed, but we do not know were it was.
There was a dame school next to the village hall as shown on a 1813 map of the area.
- 1859 was the start of the current school and was built by a combination of a rich family (willoughby d'eresby.
- 1865 logbooks show The school year was dominated by the agricultural.
the headmaster was for punished for over-use of the cane.
- 1986- the school move to it current site and had only 90 children.
- 1998-2000 4 mobile classrooms added but as 0f 2005 only 2 remain but used as art room and after a school club
- 2005- a further 2 classrooms, staff room, library and an extension of the hall to meet the increased number of children.
- 2007- a wind turbine was installed.
As of 2006/07 school year it has 210 children [1]
[edit] Headmasters
- 1800s-1867 Mr Pimlott
- 1867-1881 lot's of headmasters that lasted only a short time
- 1881-1899 Mr Matthew Knott and employed his family as teachers
- 1899-1914 Mr E Bager (died in 1914)
- 1914-1919 Mr J R Towning temporarily became head master then thomas winiall did but Towning came back before the going to fight in the war.
- H J Harding took over until 1919.
- 1919-1926 Mr Towning returned from the war a took over again.
- 1926-1943 Mr G Power (died in 1943) the school took a lot of children from hull in 1941/42
- 1944-1959 Mr A Bett
- 1959-1964 Mr R J Underwood
- 1964-1981 Mr A LIsley
- 1982-2007 Mr R Platt
- 2007- Mr J McCullough
Most info from LANGTOFT A Portrait of South Lincolnshire Village by Jean Thomas and Diana Branch
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