 On Founders Day the school would attend a memorial service at Old Clee Parish church, an ancient building being the oldest in Grimsby dating back to Saxon times.This church, Holy Trinity and St Mary, served for many centuries as the parish church for the farming village of Clee and the fishing hamlets known as the Thorpes of Clee
A service of remembrance was regularly held in the school hall on the date nearest 11 November.The headmaster would read a list of old boys who fell in the two world wars.