[8] The original building as it stands today was designed by James Murray in a Gothic style to resemble a French château, and is currently used by Holy Trinity Church.

In 2011 the school secured a 125-year lease to the historic Charterhouse Fields in a bitterly contested six-year process.

[27] It performs choral works ranging from Thomas Tallis through Joseph Haydn to John Tavener.

There is a production for students in key stages 4 and 5 such as Sleeping Beauty, Lord of the Flies, The Lady Killers and The Good Person of Schezuan.

Also, an annual production for students in key stage 3, including The Comedy of Errors, Ignite and The Canterbury Tales.

There are also bespoke community drama projects in partnership with a range of organisations and student directed productions.

In 2017 a production of One Good Soul, with script by an English teacher and score by a sixth form student, made a debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

These were chosen to reflect the schools six values: Care, Hard work, Respect, Integrity, Servanthood and Togetherness, an acronym for CHRIST.

Tutorials are based on house systems, and contain students from a variety of years to promote inter-year coherence.

In the following year students were placed into one of three traditional houses named after Bishops of Coventry: Neville Gorton, Mervyn Haigh, and Cuthbert Bardsley.

[citation needed] The houses were localised individually into the three main buildings of the school, but tuition took place across the site (based on academic streaming).

[59] On BBC CWR's radio Breakfast show on 5 March 2015 there were calls from parents for Julie Roberts to stand down.