The school attracted national media attention in 2002, when then-headteacher David Wilmot recruited teachers at a nearby Sainsbury's supermarket.

He told The Daily Telegraph that he had struggled to recruit and retain newly qualified teachers.

[1] The recruitment crisis was highlighted as a "major concern" in an OFSTED report later that year.

[7][8] As of 2025, the school houses an inchoate Resourced Provision Centre wherein SEN children may be educated.

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