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				This plaque is beside an old piece of wall between the existing school and the church car park. It says that a school room was built by the Duke of Cleveland in 1838. This stone was relocated from the site of the first school on Front Street.
Date (of image) : 3/2/2014
Donor : F.Wilson
Creator : F. Wilson
Location
 Hart School
Hart SchoolA school was first built in 1838 in Front Street originally as a Church of England School. It became a Durham County Council School in 1940 and in 1953 moved to a new building close to the current school in Magdalene Drive which opened in 1981. In 1954, senior pupils were sent to Galley's Field in Hartlepool and numbers dropped. In 1968 the school was threatened with closure , however numbers rose when new housing was built in the village.
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