[4] A former chemistry teacher of the school (teaching between 2001 and 2011) was convicted in 2014 and jailed for owning and distributing indecent images and movies of children.

[5] The school was a site of an audio experiment in 2016 with Bournemouth University in which 11 teenage students participated in the listening of radio drama shows.

Further music and drama productions take place in the spring and summer terms and a Christmas carol service is held at Wimborne Minster.

Productions include Guys and Dolls, Hot Mikado, In to the Woods, Calamity Jane,[11] "Anything Goes", Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fiddler on the Roof,[12] Oliver Twist, Sweet Charity[13] and many more.

The actual summit of the hill is on the Higher Blandford Road near the mobile phone tower by the school entrance.