Woodhouse National School

The beginnings of St. Edmund's Primary School

By Liz Weston

In 1811 a 'National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales' was set up by a group of churchmen.  The many charity schools it established were known as 'National Schools' because of the Society's name.  Mansfield had several including Woodhouse National School which later became St. Edmund's Church of England Primary School.