- The school provides bespoke support for pupils applying to popular apprenticeship programmes, such as those with Deloitte and HM Treasury.
- Co-curricular offerings include the arts, musical groups (such as a jazz band and a steel pans group) and a great number of sporting clubs and activities that take place in state-of-the-art facilities. The school has a long record of academic and sporting success, and several of its teams make it to regional finals.
- It has received the Artsmark Gold Award from Arts Council England on four occasions.
- There is a supportive pastoral structure of heads of year and form tutors and a comprehensive programme of personal, social, health and economic education.
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