Football operates at the beginning of the year until the winter term, when rugby comes in play.

[3] The school also supports athletics, basketball, cross-country, fitness training, gymnastics, judo and swimming.

[2] In the late 1970s, the school's choir was involved in West End performances, supplying a chorus for the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical, Evita.

In 1989, a new generation of singers provided vocals on Mike + The Mechanics' chart-topping single "The Living Years".

[citation needed] Former teacher Michael Porteous was sentenced in 2014 to two-and-a-half years in prison for sexually abusing a pupil at the school in the 1970s.