The New S.S. # 5 West Gwillimbury School at Bond Head. This building was erected on the same property just south of the 80 year old school. The one-classroom brick structure, built by Contractor Wilfred Halbert from Thornton had windows all along the side facing the road. The students and teacher, George Pocock moved from one school to the other at the beginning of February 1954. An additional classroom opened on January 3, 1955 with Dawna Herard as the firs teacher.
Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875) was the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1835-1838, and in this time he sent a militia to squash the 1837 Rebellion, led by William Lyon Mackenzie, at Montgomery's Tavern.
