 The school was established primarily to feed the Colleges of Art and Technology (later Leicester Polytechnic and now De Montfort University) and the curriculum showed a significant bias towards Craft and other practical subjects.In 1933 it moved across the road to the site it occupied until 2009, which comprises a three-storey house dating from 1772 with a purpose-built extension and additional buildings for Science and Art & Design.Its first Head Master (1928–31) was Harold Dent who went on to become Editor of "The Times Educational Supplement" and Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield.