[8] According to school officials, the program enables the students to be calmer, more focused as well as relaxed and improves their ability to learn.

[11] In 2002, the Liverpool Daily Post reported that the school had a 100% pass rate on GCSE tests in seven out of the prior 8 years.

One would be in Woodbridge, Suffolk, near a community of TM practitioners in Rendlesham,[18] and the other would be at Oldfield House in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Labour MP Lisa Nandy made similar complaints in August and the British Humanist Association (BHA) voiced concerns about the school's "spiritual and 'pseudoscientific' teaching".

[14][19] The school's headmaster, Cassells, said: "We bring a balanced curriculum and all we do is introduce a few minutes of meditation three times a day".

[27] In December 2012, the school was reprimanded by the Department for Education for not entering any of its pupils into compulsory National Curriculum assessments.