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St Nicholas Primary School is a community school in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire UK. It was built in 1897 by the the port of hull society's sailers orphan homes.but now it is run as a community school by the local education authority

Details
The school is located in the Newland estate of West Hull. This school was built around 1897 in a Renaissance Revival style, with late twentieth century additions, and is now a grade two listed building. This is a small school; there are around 200 pupils in total and the school is made up of 7 classes with children aged between 4 and 11 years of age.

History
The first 108 years of the school's history it was run by a charity concerned with the welfare of sailor's orphans.The charity was called The Port Of Hull Society until 1950 when it changed its name to the Sailors' Children's Society. In 2005 an agreement was reached with Hull City Council to take over responsibility for the school.

The society had Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as patron from 1937 to 2002 and she was was a visitor to the school in 1960 [link]