Lavington Primary School was founded in 1960. The first headmaster, Harry Sentance, was headmaster of the school from 1960 to 1977, when he moved to the Seychelles. His wife, Brenda Sentance, designed the Lavington School uniforms in 1964. The school's Latin motto - Quiquid Ages Age - translates as "Whatever you do, do well" and was derived from the Dambusters Squadron of the RAF which took off from Lincolnshire (where both Harry and Brenda were born) on bombing raids to Germany during the Second World War.

The first class to take KPE at Lavington was the class of 1964. Members of the founding class were: Alistair Logan, John Sims, Chris Wensley, Chris Waugh, Howard Pratt, John Cato, Russell Brumby, Magnus Flett, Phillippa Pickering, Anne Reilly, Rosalind Price, and David Sentance. I knew the people well as were all together for four years, a class of 21 of whom 10 went on to study at universities in England (including Oxford, Cambridge, Uni of Surrey, and Uni of Edinburgh). The parents of the majority of students were East African Airways flight crew. Our Standard 7 teacher was Mrs. Kemp. My Standard 6 class included David Wensley, now an MD in Vancouver, and Terise De Jager now living in Camarillo, California. Jeff De Jager (Terise's father) was head test pilot for EAA and later founded Swazi Air. Lavington was a phenomenal school with great results in the pre-drug 1960, before the Beatles!