The first foundation deed set up by Bishop John Vesey in 1527 provided an endowment from property income of £7 a year and twenty-one people were appointed Trustees to manage the school and pay a fit and proper person to teach Grammar and Rhetoric.

[2] By 22 August 1540, a second deed was established by Vesey providing for the endowed properties to be held by the Warden and Society of Sutton.

Between 1527 and 1540 many developments had occurred in relation to the English Reformation and this stipulation highlighted Vesey's intent to retain Catholic tradition at the time.

Tuition was free, with traditional, academic subjects such as logic, rhetoric and grammar being taught to the local boys.

[2] On 5 October 1546, John Savage died, and Lawrence Nowell of Brasenose College, Oxford was appointed as his successor.

[3] The Corporation started court proceedings to remove him from office due to neglect of the school, presumably because Nowell prioritised his research work.

[4] In the 1990s, the rugby pitch at the Tamworth Road end of the playing fields was sold for residential development, to fund various projects such as the "Randon Design Centre".

The library, which was located on the site of the Randon Design Centre, was moved into an extension constructed on the main school building.