It was the first state school in Britain to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma and the first to become a Language College.

[citation needed] The school offers opportunities to travel abroad, often on exchanges and learn many languages such as French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and Arabic.

The school uses the twelve star European Flag as its crest and uses the phrase Making a World of difference as a motto.

It is common to hear the school and its pupils and staff referred to as The Anglo Family.

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