[1] Enrichment was an opportunity to broaden and enhance the learning of pupils by developing their intellectual, personal and social skills through a variety of challenging and engaging contexts.

[2] The Hearing Impaired Unit has since moved to a purpose built facility which is situated on the neighboring Beauchamp College site.

[4] An 1818 parliamentary enquiry recorded that the only means of education for poorer families in Oadby was a Sunday School connected to St Peter's Church, attended by 117 children.

According to Stewart Mason (Director of Education for Leicestershire until 1971) "the 11-plus examination and the resultant segregation of children into grammar and secondary modern schools is an offence against reason and public conscience.

"[8] The plan he has devised, and which was put into effect across the County, meant the abolition of 11-plus segregation; and at the age of fourteen there could be transfer to the Grammar School without examination for all children whose parents choose it for them and promised to keep them there beyond sixteen.

In 1973 the age of transfer to secondary school in Oadby was lowered to 10 and Brookside Primary opened on adjoining land, allowing children to remain in the same locality from 4–18.

The school provided "a complete range of secondary courses during the compulsory stage for children from Oadby, Burton Overy, Great Glen, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Hungerton, Keyham, Newton Harcourt, Scraptoft, Stoughton, Great and Little Stretton and Thurnby.

Under an earlier scheme, the school was also divided into four houses, all named after famous people connected with the Leicester area: Pupils were required to wear sports gear of their house colour, as well as coloured pin badges on their uniforms.

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