Students were previously required to take one foreign language as well as a course from the Design and Technology category but these are no longer compulsory.

Coursework, commonly associated with subjects such as Art and Design and Technology, is also accounted towards their final GCSE grades.

The school provides for hire a swimming pool (although this has been block booked by the Swim School Academy[4] for the last couple of years and is no longer available for other clubs), two rugby pitches, two football pitches, their classrooms, the sports hall and the Library (Resources Centre).

The Library (Resources Centre) was recently refurbished in 2009 and provides a vast array of books, as well as 50 Networked computers, and a number of Apple Macs.

In 2005, the year 10 team reached the National Cup Semi-Finals losing to Bayhouse in Fareham, Matt Ritchie, who now plays for Newcastle scored 2 goals.

In 2018, The year 9 football team successfully reached the national cup quarter finals after defeating Steyning grammar school (Worthing, Sussex) with goals from Harvey Hughes, Joseph “Jando” Stevens, Callum Stratton and Billy Lightfoot.

There is an eco-school club that runs every Monday at lunchtime, which is led by the science department's community links class teacher and is run mainly by the lead team that consists of pupils from all years that have shown a high interest in Eco schools.

The school has won the bronze and silver awards and achieved the green flag which was raised on 22 October 2009.

The project is a pupil-led, fully functional organic garden behind the drama and sports hall it was opened by Chris Packham in 2009.