 First year (now called year 7) pupils were allocated form rooms in Temporary buildings on the tennis courts and the Maths and English departments used Temporary huts well into the 1990s whilst large sections of the School was rebuilt.In the five years before the creation of the academy, the original school was damaged by fire on two further occasions.The school's science block was destroyed by fire on 17 November 2003 and had to be completely rebuilt.