Development

Recent developments have seen a major project completed with the opening of the Abbott Building, a two-storey block containing a new Refectory on the upper floor. This seats twice as many students as our former Refectory, and the big new kitchens can produce a greater variety of home-cooked food. With its south wall of glass, the new Refectory is superbly light and spacious and has a wonderful view over our main lawn. The ground floor houses a state of the art Drama Studio and two Geography classrooms. This whole project was completed early and under budget.

We also re-developed older buildings freed up by the opening of the Abbott Building. The former Drama studio has been completely gutted, re-roofed, re-windowed and internally re-structured to create a new facility for our expanding Sixth Form. It now houses a Careers Centre and study area, which includes a 'Café Six' run by our caterers together with a new Sixth Form teaching room for smaller A-level groups.

The former Refectory has been divided into three new Art studios, including a dedicated Photography room. In other areas of the school freed up as a knock-on effect of these developments, we have created a permanent CCF headquarters and additional Music teaching rooms.

Going forwards, feasibility studies are being undertaken on the refurbishment and development of the swimming pool complex, as well as looking to build a new sports hall on the Senior School site.