 It follows the rules of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit order for men).In 1856, Alexander Goss, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool (in which Diocese Blackpool then was) invited the sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to send out a branch from their house in Liverpool to teach in Father Bampton's Poor School on Talbot Road, Blackpool and they had arrived with 12 girl boarders.With accommodation in Queen's Square acquired for themselves and for the girls, the school flourished.