The school has facilities including large sports and playing fields and a sixth form college.

He sacked the 42 year old head of drama, Raymond Gregory, from his £2,200 job, for not teaching the expected syllabus, as the drama teacher wanted a more 'modern' syllabus, with 'free expression'; 200 children subsequently went on a banner-waving protest throughout the town, to reinstate the drama teacher, but the teacher was not reinstated.

At the time, Shropshire County Council were more interested in how the school's results had plummeted over five years since becoming a comprehensive.

[7] Mr Behenna grew up in Mevagissey,[8] and attended St Austell County Grammar School, taking a Geography degree at Worcester College, Oxford, and had served in the RAF Air Sea Rescue Service (Royal Air Force Marine Branch) in the Second World War, then taught from 1959 at Melbourn Village College, where he became headteacher.

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