Naburn is a small country village on the river Ouse. We are about four miles South of York. It has existed since Saxon times and after the Normans invaded Britain the village land was given to one of William the Conqueror's standard bearers.

Saint Matthew's Church was built in 1854 by the Victorians.

The school was built in Victorian times, in 1872. It was much smaller then - just one room - with one teacher who lived next door. Over 90 children would squash in to the school. We have the School Journal which is a diary kept by all the head teachers since it opened. It shows that it was hard to get all the children to come to school during the harvest, when they were working on the farms.

About 50 evacuees came to the school in World War II, from Hull and Sunderland. The Head Teacher was the billeting officer, housing evacuees with local families.The school had two rooms then and they took over the scout hut across the road as an extra classroom.

A third classroom was added on in 1997, with a library space and indoor toilets. We buried a time capsule under the new ramp.