Following the announcement by Boris Johnson to close schools on 20 March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the school relocated their education to online learning via Zoom. The chapel, a Grade II* listed building, was originally part of the upper corridor of the 1838 New Street school (built by Charles Barry). It was moved brick by brick to Edgbaston (1938–1940) by Holland W. Hobbiss, and renovated and rebuilt in the 1950s. On Wednesday 4 May 2016, King Edward's School officially opened the second phase of its First World War exhibition in the chapel, originally opened in 2014, to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Another glory of the school, the great desk of the Chief Master, with 'Sapientia' inscribed over it" survives from Barry's New Street school, and is still in daily use in Big School. This too is generally thought to be the work of Pugin. The school buildings have been used in several film and television productions. They were used in the 1986 film "Clockwise", starring John Cleese, supposedly as the University of East Anglia. The school featured briefly in the 2006 Ray Winstone Channel 4 TV film "All in the Game". The school has also been used in several episodes of the BBC medical drama "Doctors". The school grounds were used in 2000 to film a feature on the Mazda MX-5 sports car for "Clarkson's Car Years", presented by Jeremy Clarkson, against a background of boys in the Shells playing rugby on a rainy day. The school has also notably featured some teachers on TV, with one John Fennel famously appearing on the Birmingham series of Come Dine With Me. Unlike state secondary schools and in common with many independent schools, King Edward's does not use modern year group names habitually, e.g. Year 11, Year 12, etc. The table below attempts to clarify the names of forms used for the different years:  King Edward's has a house system, instigated in 1902 by the then Headmaster, Robert Cary Gilson. Originally, there were four houses, using the colours Blue, Green, Red and Yellow, but the houses were known simply by the name of the Housemaster at any one time ("Mr Soandso's House"), involving a change of name whenever the Housemaster changed. In 1951 the number of Houses was enlarged to eight, and it was decided that they should have permanent names. Six were called after former Headmasters, and two after assistant masters (Rawdon Levett and C. H. Heath).