The school moved to Wellesley Road in 1903 and then to two houses on High Street in 1905 in order to extend the premises.

The school expanded into another adjacent house on High Street and then moved to bigger premises on East Hill in 1913.

The chemical garden experiment was successful but the Liesegang rings failed to operate correctly due to friction in parts of the mechanism.

The seven-year delay had been caused by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster which occurred in 1986 shortly before the intended flight.

ASIC is an 18th-century Grade II listed building which has undergone a multimillion-pound refurbishment, providing classrooms alongside boarding rooms.