[citation needed] By September 1902, the present site of the school had been purchased and the first four boarding houses and teaching block completed.

[4] The student roll grew and in 1910, the Gardiner Assembly Hall and a Library were built and Clough House followed in 1914.

[5] Silcox was able to bring leading thinkers and artists to the school and money was found to buy sculpture[6] and paintings.

The modernist paintings inspired pupils like the artist Gwyneth Johnstone who remembered seeing work by Christopher Wood at the school.

[9] The school accommodates babies and toddlers in the St Felix Nursery, and children up to the age of 18 in the Sixth Form.