Heritage site marker for Nollamara Primary School

Nollamara Primary School was constructed in 1956 to cater for the growing demand for education in the rapidly developing suburb and is good example of a tyical Post-War government school building. It is a complex of buildings laid out in a traditional U-form around a quadrangle. The original buildings are constructed of brick, rendered and painted above window sill height with a hipped, tile roof. Parts of the area now called Nollamara were originally granted separately to William Knight in 1841 and Mary Hutton in March 1844. Development in Nollamara did not commence in earnest until the late 1940s. Prior to World War II, land in the southern sector of Nollamara was used mainly for market gardens and poultry farms. The suburb was named in 1954 and more than two and a half thousand homes had been build in Nollamara by 1969