The School and its buildings

Our School is pretty big and can feel pretty intimidating when you are new here, but you soon get used to finding your way around and, to help you,you will be given a map on your first day.

Our School was established on Church Street, Edmonton soon after 1624, and has occupied its present site on Haselbury Road since 1910. The buildings date from then with substantial additions in 1928 and 1966.  A new £1million pound Performing Arts Centre was built in 1999 and is now in use.

Apart from general teaching rooms there are a large number of rooms dedicated to specialist teaching.  There is a suite of 12 Science laboratories, all of which have been fully re-equipped and modernised in the last 5 years.  Our 6 Technology rooms have similarly been upgraded.

There is a suite of specialist  ICT rooms which are used extensively in the teaching of a large number of curriculum subjects.  The suite contains over 80 modern PCs, all networked and widely accessible to pupils and teaching staff.  Pupils have controlled access to the Internet and there is a comprehensive Intranet service.

The School has the benefit of a large Main Library and Learning Resources Centre which together house a collection of some 20,000 volumes. There are also extensive periodical holdings, a newscuttings service and ICT facilities. The collection is managed by a chartered librarian who helps and advises the pupils, runs induction sessions and encourages the pupils to use the facilities during the school day.

The Music, Drama and Media Studies departments have specialist facilities in the new building, offering a range of studios, larger spaces for music and drama and individual music practice rooms.

There are 2 gymnasia for PE, and approximately 12 acres of playing fields laid out, according to season, for football, hockey, rugby, cricket, rounders and athletics. Tennis is played on the tarmac area at the rear of the School.  All the facilities are on the school site.

Our Great Hall, with a fully equipped stage and seating for over 1000 people, is used for whole school assemblies and major school events.