Our school is celebrating its 56th Anniversary this year. It started out as a privately run school in a cottage in the garden of 67 River Road. In the middle of 1959, Walmer parents were faced with a crisis when two existing nursery schools in the area were about to close down. In August of that year a meeting of all interested parents was called and a steering committee formed to investigate the possibility of starting a fully-fledged pre-primary school.

A public meeting was held in the Walmer Town hall where the speakers were Mrs Peggy Lincey and Mrs Phyllis Birin, both trained nursery school teachers. Other speakers were Mr Meredith Wood and Mr K McIntyre, principal of Fourth Avenue Primary School.

A banking account was bravely opened with nothing to put in it but the shillings that committee members paid for their teas! However by the November, through the hard work of the committee and helpers, a lot of equipment had been made, 60 pounds was in the bank, and the premises at 67 River Road were cleaned, scraped and painted by the committee. That little school opened on 25 January 1960 with 45 children under the supervision of Ms Tessa Sharwood assisted by Mrs Val Bester.

The school was officially opened by Mr Jock Omond at a function attended by the mayoresses of both Port Elizabeth and Walmer and some 80 people.