| Administrative History | Foster's Primary School was established in 1727 under the will of William Foster, who left 23 acres of land in Croydon, Surrey plus money to pay for the buiding and maintenance of a school house and to paya teacher a salary of £20 a year to educate 20 poor children in the Parish of East Wickham. In the early Nineteenth Century the school was re-organised under the auspices of the National Society and was recognised as a Church of England school. The sale of the school's land in Croydon in about 1870 raised £10,000 and allowed the Trustees to buid a new school in Upper Wickham Lane opened in 1890. Under the Education Act of 1902 the school qualified for financial support from Kent County Council. Following the Education Act of 1944 the school became voluntary controlled and responsability for it passed from the County of Kent to Bexley Borough Council. In 1965 the old Borough of Bexley was absorbed into the new London Borough of Bexley. Proposals to move the school to a new site were resisted by parents in 1972 and in 1973 the school's status was changed to voluntary aided. In 1998 a new school building was finally opened in Westbrooke Road. |