Thanks to the programme's success, the school was named a "Textile Centre for Excellence" and was featured in an Adobe case study.

[5] The school was a regional host for the Adobe/MTV Boom Music Video Academy in 2006, and had a computer suite donated by the company Educational Ideas in 2004.

[7] Following the 2014 inspection (carried out on 7–8 October 2014) the report observed, "[e]ffective leadership has led to consistently good teaching and achievement across the school.

[10] After starting as a pupil-run media literacy initiative, The Project eventually involved a large portion of the school in the film's planning, writing and production.

[14] As a result of the Another Day film project, pupils were offered the opportunity to make a music video for English rock band The Feeling.

The main quadrangle of buildings was envisaged as an Upper School for pupils aged 13–16 and was constructed during 1970-71, followed shortly after by the sports facilities that are shared with Chilwell Olympia.

A Lower School building to the designs of the architects Michael Tempest and Roger Bearsmore of Nottinghamshire County Council[20] was constructed to the south-west of the main quadrangle in 1975-76.