Park school gets it's name from a popular legend that the area occupied by the school was a natural park, covered by trees.  Some of the trees still remain, where the original Park school was built.
    Unfortunately there is no known record of any ceremony in connection with laying the first stone or the date on which building began.  The school was a very impressive building, made from local granite or limestone, each stone beautifully pointed.  Three of the stone clocks had a lighthouse inscribed on them and placed a strategic vantage points at the front of each school.  It has never been established why the stones were engraved in this way.  It is thought that it may have been to mark the connection between the materials used in building both the breakwater (which had been completed two years prior), and the school.  Was is possible that the contractor who built the school also hired the stonemasons who built the breakwater - and hence the particularly high standard of craftsmanship?

Upon completion of the school building a commemorate slate plaque was placed on the front of the school, naming the first board of Managers, and the contractor who had built the school.  This plaque is proudly on display in the new Park School. 
    Over the years the school earned for itself a reputation for high academic standards with certain genius, so it is alleged