Then and now

Said to be a quarter-of-a-mile long, the school drive remains one of the distinctive and vividly recalled features of our twelve-acre site. Prior to the opening of the memorial bridge in 2015, all pupils made the twice-daily walk along the leafy path with the distinctive tower, and, further back in history, the steeple; the first visible part of the main building upon arrival in the morning.

In recent years, the drive has been widened slightly to include a pedestrian footpath, with the original entrance now functioning solely as an exit, whilst our new eco-garden resides slightly past the cottages where the School Sergeants lived for over a century. During the spring and summer months, a walk along the drive is an explosion of colours and different shades of green with nature flourishing and pupils playing on the areas close to the bridge.