The Wood Farm housing estate started to spring up around the former Old Road prisoner-of-war camp in the early 1950s, and a primary school soon followed for children aged 5 to 11.

Planning permission for the school on a six-acre site in Titup Hall Drive was granted in two stages:

• In July 1953 plans were approved (53/03042/A_H) for the erection of a primary school and the laying out of playing fields on land that was part open space and part allotment.
  The junior section for 320 pupils opened in April 1955.
• In 1954 plans were approved (54/03979/A_H) for the infant section on land measuring 8,953 square feet that was partly on the site covered by the above approval and partly on allotments.
  The infant section for 240 pupils opened in September 1956.

A plan of the school appears in The Changing Faces of Headington, Book 2, p. 70.

In 1955 planning permission of entrance gates to the school from the Slade was granted (55/03042/A_H) and In 1958 for a swimming bath at the school (58/06827/A_H).

The school, originally known as Wood Farm Junior Mixed & Infant School, catered for children on the Wood Farm and also from 1958 onwards for the Town Furze estate at Girdlestone Road, where 260 council houses were built.

Aerial view of Wood Farm County Primary School in 1958

The infants were originally in what became the Joan Lawrence Building (named after a popular head teacher at the Slade Nursery School for thirty years who died in 1988), and the juniors in the Mary Bews building (named after an adviser to Oxfordshire primary schools).

When in 1975 Oxford adopted a three-tier system of comprehensive education, the infant section became Shotover Way First School, and the junior section Forresters First School. These names were only used for five years, as in 1980 the two first schools amalgamated to become Wood Farm First School for children aged 5 to 9.

In 1983 the Slade Nursery transferred from the Slade to the Joan Lawrence building,

In 1991 Wood Farm Community Centre was created by extending the office accommodation in the Mary Bews building.

In September 2003 Oxford reverted to a two-tier system of education, and the school became Wood Farm Primary School, once again taking children from 5 to 11. In August 2023 the city council agreed to a plan to convert existing classrooms tat were surplus to requirements into an independent neighbourhood nursery (adjacent to the Slade Nursery School) for 45 children (03/01411/CC3).

In May 2007 the city council again raised no objection to a plan to create a new children's centre at the Slade Nursery School and Wood Farm First School (07/00743/CC3).

The school was entirely rebuilt between 2011 and 2014 (planning application 10/00105/CC3) by Leadbitter Construction to a design by Jacobs Engineering of Aylesbury. It was then increased to a two-form entry.