Dovedale Primary School is a

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situated on Herondale Road in the Mossley Hill district of

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. It is a mixed community school founded in 1908. The school was previously known as two separate schools, Dovedale Junior School and Dovedale Infant School, but has since merged. It is Dovedale Primary which is probably best known as the school which

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and

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, and Lennon's lifelong friend Pete Shotton attended. Some others who attended the school were comedian

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and the newsreader

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. In the 1950s, it had a very good reputation as a 'feeder' school for Liverpool

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s such as

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, the

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, and the Liverpool Blue Coat School. In 2001, John Lennon's widow,

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, donated £25,000 for school refurbishments. In September 2015, the two schools formally merged management, and are now recognised as a single school by the

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, known as Dovedale Primary School.

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Ofsted Report
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