 According to a short news item in The Times, the school was re-opened after the air raid damage by the Duke of Kent on 14 February 1942 as a social centre, the funds for which had been supplied by the British War Relief Society of America.Beneath the school is a World War II air raid shelter which since the 1990s has been featured on local television and has been used to teach the children about the war.This is still open to the pupils for educational purposes when they study World War 2.In 1948, the school was visited by the "Down Your Way" radio program to interview the pupils about their "Paper for Salvage" scheme.