Pupils from the school were chosen to form part of a "guard of honour" for athletes at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, displaying artistic creations their school made to celebrate the event.

Initially, it was housed in the Assembly Rooms but then moved to Dover Place where there were fifty pupils and three teachers.

The girls who lived in the villages still attended the school but sometimes had to spend hours in air-raid shelters.

In order to gain entry, girls now had to pass the eleven-plus examination and fee-paying was abandoned.

Numbers attending the school continued to grow and this, together with developments in the curriculum, necessitated building programmes in the 1950s and 1960s.

Numbers of new entrants also grew so the school increased to six forms of entry in the 1990s.