Our History

Kenilworth School

1953 to present day - now Kenilworth Primary School

Kenilworth Drive Boreham Wood

Opened as a Junior Mixed Infants school.  Official opening was in March with Miss Balaam BA (headmistress of Queen Elizabeth Girls Grammar School, Barnet) as honoury guest.  The building consisted of seven classrooms, a dining room and an assembly hall.  Original staff included Mr & Mrs Webb who were the caretaker and cook

Mr Dennis Nelms was the headmaster in 1965.

In line with other schools in Boreham Wood the school status changed in 1974 because of the change from a two-tier to a three-tier system when it became a first school taking children to the age of nine.

From 1987 to 1999 Mrs Klyn took over from Mrs Potter as headteacher and her secretary was Mrs Pope.  Two teachers included Mrs Perkins and Miss Harper.  In 1996 school photographs included teachers Miss Smith, Mr Woodhouse who had transferred from Lyndhurst Middle School, Mrs Wallbridge and Mrs Cox.  Classroom assistants were Mrs Baker, Mrs Walton, Mrs Coe and Mr Doneo. 

The daily timetable in 1998 to 9 was from 8.55 am to 3.15 pm with a one hour break for lunch between midday and 1.00 pm.

In 2000 the school reverted to a two-tier system along with the other county schools in the town and its title changed to Kenilworth Primary School.  In January 2001 there were 191 children on the roll.  The school badge had a motif of the front of a castle, presumably taken after Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, and thematic with the school’s location in Kenilworth Road.  (A nearby road is called Balmoral Drive therefore linking castles as a common device in the vicinity).  The headteacher was Mrs Lander, the secretary Mrs Deanan and her assistant, Mrs Elliott.

The Head Teacher currently is Mrs Fiona Ajose.

If anyone from Kenilworth Primary reads this - please update us with the last twenty years at your school!