The gymnasium facilities for the separate sexes still remain on their original designated sites; east for the boys and west for the girls.

The school's intake covers a wide and mostly rural geographic area around the Severn Valley, and has the notable statistic that more than three-quarters of the pupils are bussed in from surrounding villages.

They built schools but also completed projects of national significance such as the Wolfson Institute and the then Polytechnic of Central London.

The assembly hall formed the heart of the building – it was enclosed by offices, cloakrooms and toilets on the ground floor, with teaching rooms above.

The assistants working on the project were P. Yarker and A. Colquhoun; the structural consultants were Ove Arup and the main contractor was A.H.

The plan of the building was a long rectangle containing all but the craft rooms (a separate single storey block) and the kitchen.

The entrance hall contains the main staircase – the glass wall here was set back to form a deep double height porch.

Internal partitions were plastered and painted white but small areas of primary colour were placed at significant points throughout the building.

The outer walls and window frames were designed with a complexity to act as a foil to the overall grid structure and to allow the spaces behind to flow across the building.