In the 1990s the school began to experience financial difficulties owing to falling pupil numbers, and it was placed into receivership in 1997.

The entertainer and singer Madonna, who visited the school in 2010, has funded the educational progression through it of one pupil (who has been kept anonymous).

[3] Vice-Principal and Head of Child Protection (at the time) William Whillock was outed as a sex offender in 2010 via the accidentally left phone of his victim.

Whillock was suspended within hours of the discovery and later sacked, he was made to sign the Sex Offenders Register and will never be allowed to work with children again.

School management: Policy, syllabuses, schemes of work and National Curriculum documents can be made available on request to the Head of Education.